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Shirish Netke President at Amberoon
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) offers a case study in government activism. It’s vital: At a time when the economy is reeling from a global pandemic, PPP is designed to support a variety of businesses, non-profits, self-employed individuals, tribal organizations and more. It’s massive: $669 billion to be disbursed in a very short period of t...
06 August 2020 /regulation /covid-19
Yamen Bousrih Manager Business Expert at Vermeg
SRD II won’t be postponed! The verdict came from the European Commission earlier this month! Despite the joint letter sent by several post-trade groups and the call to postpone the deadline of SRD II and the Implementing Regulation, the European Commission decided earlier this month to go ahead with the implementation of the directive as originall...
25 June 2020 /regulation /covid-19
Ilia Dragan Co-Founder | Chief Product Officer at ShoppingOS
According to the second Payment Service Directive (PSD2), all the financial institutions that provide payment accounts (ASPSPs) - banks, e-wallets, prepaid cards, neobanks and e-money institutions with their agents - must have in place at least one channel for secure communication with third party providers (TPP). They can choose to offer a dedica...
18 June 2020 /regulation /retail
Sassan Danesh Managing Partner at Etrading Software Ltd
Finance is very much a data business with financial firms critically dependent on good information. They need fast access to comprehensive data, which provides them with insight in order to provide services and compete effectively. As a result, firms have been making significant investments in new technologies to improve their analysis and store l...
02 June 2020 /regulation /markets
Adrian Sargent Founder and Managing Director at ESG Treasury Ltd
Writen by Colin Weir Associate at Carlyle - Executive Search insights provided by Adrian Sargent The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted that financial stress events can occur with little prior warning and may have longer-lasting consequences than past crises. The crash of 2008 saw banks unable to achieve liquidity which led to them contributing to muc...
30 May 2020 /regulation /covid-19
Mete Feridun Chair at EMU Centre for Financial Regulation and Risk
The Basel Committee’s revised Pillar 3 framework of 2015 was intended to address shortcomings in the consistency and comparability of firms’ regulatory disclosures. Introducing standardised disclosure requirements under a tabular format for qualitative information and more granular disclosure requirements for quantitative information, the Committe...
12 February 2020 /regulation
Last week, the US Department of Treasury published its 2020 Strategy document that "employs a whole-of-government approach to guide the public and private sectors in addressing 21st century illicit finance challenges." The report highlights the risk-based approach as central to the 2020 Strategy. The report classifies vulnerabilities a...
10 February 2020 /ai /crime
Philippe Carrel Chief Commercial Officer at Finmechanics
Neither IBORs nor RFRs; firms should ready up to work with both types of benchmarks and reference rates for the foreseeable future. The quantitative finance focused publications of 2019 have highlighted that replacing forward looking term rates (IBORs) with convexity-adjusted overnight rates compounded in arrears (RFRs) could lead to discrepancie...
21 January 2020 /regulation /markets
On 7 January 2019 the Bank of England (BoE) published a discussion paper (DP) on the way it collects data from financial institutions in response to the June 2019 Future of Finance report undertaken by Huw Van Steenis and commissioned by Mark Carney. Proposing a number of options to improve the timeliness, flexibility, quality and interpretation o...
10 January 2020 /ai /regulation
Brian Costello VP, Data Strategy at Envestnet | Yodlee
A US financial regulator opened an investigation last month into claims that Apple's credit card offered different credit limits for men and women. Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple tweeted that he had received a credit limit that was 10x higher than his wife’s, despite them both sharing all their accounts. There is no doubt that the card wa...
10 December 2019 /regulation /devops
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