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EBAday 2021: Driving correspondent banking success through wider adoption of instant payments

The shift toward instant payments will undoubtedly provide benefits for consumers, but it is the benefits for institutions and corporates that are likely to revolutionise financial services. However, to reap these benefits financial institutions must navigate the maze of deadlines and coinciding schemes in a proactive manner.

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Anorak and Iress to provide regulated protection advice for mortgage brokers

Anorak, the world’s first fully automated life insurance advice platform, has today announced a partnership with Iress, the market-leading financial software company, to provide a cutting-edge protection advice platform to mortgage brokers.

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GDF issues mixed response to FATF consultation on crypto

Cryptoassets and digital finance industry membership body, Global Digital Finance (GDF), today issued a mixed response to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)'s recent consultation on crypto.

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ALT/AVE to drive new funding into its DLT offering

Having secured £535,000 investment, regtech ALT/AVE plans to further develop its distributed ledger solution docStribute, to expand its core uses beyond financial services.

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Investors can avoid missing out on returns of up to 5% a year with ESG

According to behavioural finance experts Oxford Risk, ESG can stop investors from missing out on returns of between 4% and 5% per annum on cash they do not invest because they are not emotionally comfortable with the risks, or familiar with the landscape.

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Sopra chooses IBM Cloud via Red Hat OpenShift

Sopra Banking Software, the partner of choice for more than 1,500 financial institutions worldwide, announced that it will join the IBM Cloud for Financial Services Ecosystem. The IBM Cloud for Financial Services, which recently became generally available, is designed to help financial institutions transact with technology vendors, such as Sopra Banking Software, who have met the platform's stringent security and compliance requirements.

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ComplyAdvantage announces AML programme for early-stage startups

ComplyAdvantage, a global data technology company transforming financial crime detection, today announced a new early-stage anti-money laundering (AML) program aimed at growth-focused startups called ComplyLaunch™. The program provides qualified startups with free access to the company’s award-winning AML and Know Your Customer (KYC) tools and resources needed to uncover and reduce the threat of money-laundering activities so they can onboard new customers with lower risk and greater trust.

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Ant Group and Tencent promote their work on digital yuan with PBoC – SCMP

This weekend, the two Chinese fintech giants Ant Group and Tencent prominently displayed posters during the Digital China Summit outlining a “history of cooperation with the PBoC on the digital yuan” according to the South China Morning Post.

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SteelEye exploits AI to sniff-out market abuse

Compliance technology and data analytics firm SteelEye is tackling market abuse and communications monitoring with new lexicon technology.

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EBAday 2021: Why privacy is key to progressing a digital euro

The European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde first told reporters in March 2021 that the delivery of a digital euro would be decided upon within months, and suggested that four years would be a realistic timeframe for the development and issuance of a digital euro. However, the decision to pursue it has yet to be made by the ECB Governing Council, which will base its decision on its own preliminary work, and recently released responses to its public consultation.

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China’s fintechs face an uphill battle with listings - CNBC

Going public in China is proving to be something of an uphill battle for fintechs, and new guidelines released by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) are only further complicating the process.

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Will smart divergence set the UK apart post Brexit?

During a panel session for UK Fintech Week 2021, moderator Kristy Duncan, founder and CEO of Women in Payments noted that while the UK and EU benefits from a progressive regulatory regime which favours innovation and competition, fintechs are hindered by regulatory challenges including lack of enforcement and passporting headaches.

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Shearman & Sterling: 'Remove the straitjacket of statutory rules' for UK fintech

During a panel for UK Fintech Week 2021, Barnabas Reynolds, global head of financial services group, Shearman & Sterling emphasised that to build trust in the system and allow space for fintech innovation, that the focus of supervisory systems should be on risk and not unnecessary code or control.

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EBAday 2021: Will 2021 see proactive regulators eschew their reactive reputation?

Spurring a seismic shift in the way financial services operate and are supervised, the pandemic forced regulators to reassess strategy and increasingly adopt new technologies to modernise their processes.

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How Curve got back on track after Wirecard fallout

In June 2020, the FCA acted overnight to freeze customer accounts across UK fintech firms including Curve, Pockit, Soldo, Anna Money and Holvi, after Wirecard Card Solution’s (WCS) parent company filed for insolvency in Germany.

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EBAday 2021: Finding European synergy in the transition from Open Banking to Open Finance

Pioneering a defined strategy in 2020, the European Commission outlined its intention to adopt a legislative proposal for a new Open Finance Framework by mid-2022.

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Cryptocurrency’s complex quest toward building institutional infrastructure

If the normalisation of Bitcoin and crypto-at-large is to be achieved, there are fundamental challenges that this ‘non-analogue’ asset will be faced with. During Citi’s Digital Money Symposium, panellists of the ‘Institutional Infrastructure for Crypto’ session explored the obstacles crypto firms have faced while trying to carve out a footing within the institutional ecosystem.