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As the deadline for the implementation MiFID II fast approaches, financial firms are under growing pressure to take steps to ensure they’re fully compliant. A common issue, however, is that many organ...
Like Captain Ahab at the start of the voyage, the banks are in a similar fuzzy period. Banks know Open Banking is coming and the rules must be complied with but what should they do, if anything, beyon...
Financial Services compliance departments are constantly turning to technology to find efficiencies and satisfy increasingly tough regulatory examinations. It started with simple robotics, which can p...
How PSD2 and GDPR may improve retail payments for all? Following my time setting up a new community bank (credit union) on an out sourced banking platform to UK consumers I have been watching the deve...
Most international payments providers exist as an alternative to high street banks. They provide their customers with a good deal, are transparent about their fees, deliver excellent customer service,...
Many enterprise electronic communications (eComms) applications offer an attractive proposition to businesses by delivering lower costs, more features and access to newer desktop apps. But while they ...
In less than 1 year the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be enforced. If you haven’t heard by now; the GDPR will fundamentally change the way that companies capture, manage and store inf...
The robots are coming, the robots are coming! Everywhere you look, you see whitepapers and discussions about robotics and its use in AML and compliance generally. And rightfully so, this is definitely...
There is still uncertainty around the fate of the Order Protection Rule, a key rule governing U.S. stock trading that has led to more complexity, speed and order types, but also protects retail invest...
As the FCA publishes its near final rules on MiFID II and fines a former investment banker for sharing confidential information over WhatsApp, now is a good time to look at why firms need to be able t...
I am quite fascinated with the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) AnaCredit Regulation that came into effect on 18th May 2016 – A regulation that requires granular credit data sets from the national cent...
Henri Wajsblat, Anaplan’s Director of Financial Services for Product Marketing, interviews Comprehensive Capital Analysis Review (CCAR) expert, Kenneth Gustin, Ph.D., on regulatory reporting programs ...