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2014 is set to be another busy year on the regulatory front with the heavy lifting on all the big regulatory headliners of 2013 (such as FATCA, Dodd-Frank, MiFID etc.) expected to take place. In parti...
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published additional questions and answers (Q&As) on the Capital Requirements Directive and Regulation (CRD IV) under the single rulebook. In respect of re...
With proper I mean structured e-invoicing - not e-mailing PDFs (as bad as paper mail - or even worse due to spam filters..). So why? Your customer 1. gains convenience - especially with simple mobile ...
The European Commission has published a draft implementing Regulation setting out implementing technical standards (ITS) on the supervisory reporting to competent authorities by institutions under the...
Banks have seen a number of challenges over the past few years and now find themselves facing a brand new, unexpected challenger in the payments marketplace: the telecoms! Can telecom service provider...
Last week, T-Mobile announced that it was 'taking on the US banking market' with a mobile app and a prepaid card. The story stated that the company was targeting this service at the 68 million America...
I was in India a few weeks ago speaking to the Reserve Bank and most of the primary Retail Banks about the impact of mobile and social media on the industry there. The new RBI Governor in India, Raghu...
Turkey may be going through some political turmoil at the moment, but its economy and its stock market, Borsa İstanbul, have remained relatively resilient -- though not immune -- given the stress affe...
Target continues to be tangled up in chains due to its December 2013 data breach that current estimates say affected 110 million customers. Target is known as proficient and prolific in the use of m...
Financial regulatory agencies, including the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), have released the highly anticipated economic scenari...
In November 2013, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) wrote to the European Commissioner (EC) for Internal Market and Services, highlighting issues regarding the recogniti...
In my earlier post around security we hovered around payment security aspects and the importance of security standards like PCI DSS to your payment systems. We can now look into the specific challenge...