Latest Reporting/compliance News: Finextra Research

Davos: Zumo releases MiCA readiness report

B2B assets platform Zumo has released a report from Davos on the industry’s readiness for the EU’s upcoming Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, focusing on sustainability requirements.

24 January 2025

News/regulation

DORA takes effect today

Today marks the deadline for compliance with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) in the EU.

17 January 2025

News/sustainable

EBA publishes final guidelines on ESG risk management

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published its specific requirements regarding management of ESG-related risks.

10 January 2025

News/sustainable

How ethical guidelines can improve climate research

For a while now, the financial services industry has understood its role within climate intervention. As a result, companies across the world in the financial sector have looked to become funders and to develop their ESG regulations, quickly and immediately. Yet in the speed to be compliant and sustainable, ethics can become lost from the conversation.

08 January 2025

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Hong Kong launches roadmap for sustainability reporting

The Hong Kong government has revealed a roadmap to implement International Financial Reporting Standards – Sustainability Disclosure Standards (ISSB Standards) across public entities by 2028.

13 December 2024

News/crime

MEP amendments to PSR APP fraud liability regime 'undermine effective fraud prevention'

Copenhagen Economics and the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA Europe) have revealed flaws in the European Parliament’s unprecedented extension of liability beyond payments services providers (PSPs) to online platforms and electronic communication service providers, such as telecom operators, who would also have to refund victims of impersonation fraud.

04 December 2024

News/crime

5 most common fraud methods in 2024, according to AIB

‘Smishing’ accounts for 94% of all fraud cases from January to October this year.

04 December 2024

News/devops

UK Chancellor proposes pension and sustainable finance reforms

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves detailed the financial services strategy launching in March 2025, which will focus on bolstering growth, developing fintech and sustainable finance sectors.

15 November 2024

News/crime

CFPB charges Navy Federal Credit Union $95 million for overdraft and junk fees

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has charged the US’s largest credit union for illegally charging users overdraft fees.

08 November 2024

News/payments

AFP: FedNow vs. The Clearing House’s Real Time – where does Request for Payment fit in?

Taking to the stage on the penultimate day of the AFP conference in Nashville’s Music City Center, were Netflix’s Joshua Karoly, The Clearing House’s Cheryl Gurz, US Bank’s Mike Thomas in a panel led by Strategic Resource Management’s Dean Nolan.

23 October 2024

News/regulation

Sibos: Panel calls on regulators to define minimum level of fraud data sharing

Regulators must define a “minimum set of data” to be shared between banks that would still “serve the purpose” of fraud detection and prevention, said Michele Gentile, head of group correspondent banking, APAC, UniCredit, at Sibos today.

22 October 2024

News/regulation

Axiom Bank hit with enforcement action

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has filed an enforcement action against Axiom Bank in Florida.

18 October 2024

News/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live 2024: The role of ESG data in the nature capital marketplace

Founder of ResponsibleRisk, Richard Peers, moderated a session at Sustainable Finance Live called ‘What is the role of impact and ESG data in ensuring economic profit of nature capital in the marketplace?’, with speakers Cain Blythe, founder of Ecosulis and Credit Nature; Simon Crichton, head of nature, food, and resource at Triodos Bank; Giles D'Souza strategic business lead in remote sensing and GIS at Planet; James Lockhart-Smith, VP sustainable finance at Verisk Maplecroft; and Donna Lyndsay, strategic market lead environment and sustainability at Ordnance Survey.

08 October 2024

News/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live 2024: How can natural capital be assessed and why does it need to be?

Kicking off Sustainable Finance Live 2024 at Events@No6 in London, Richard Peers, founder of ResponsibleRisk and contributing editor at Finextra opened with an introduction outlining the themes and objectives of this year’s event, to understand natural capital risk, pricing, and trade.

08 October 2024

News/security

Fintech Australia backs government's scam prevention plan

The industry group for Australia's startup sector, Fintech Australia, has given its support for the government's proposals to implement scam obligations for financial services firms.

08 October 2024

News/regulation

FCA and BoE open digital securities sandbox

The UK's two main financial regulators, the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), have announced the opening of its Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS).

30 September 2024