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Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com
Following up on my 2nd quarter foreign direct investment review, we’ll pick it up in Ireland which set out a new FDI screening rule similar to that of the UK. The Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022 should be enacted before end of year and will require notification of transactions in issuers with activities affecting security or publ...
24 October 2022 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
Guy Melamed CEO at Exberry
Introduction: The Changing Trading and Investment Landscape The investment world, which previously relied on fund managers or advisors and was only accessible to high-net-worth individuals, has evolved with many alternative investment options now available to individual investors. A new wave of investors is also entering the alternative investment...
24 October 2022 /cloud /markets Capital Markets Technology
Alex Kreger Founder & CEO at UXDA
The metaverse will become the next global milestone after the digital transformation in the next few decades. It is, in fact, the transition of the internet from a two-dimensional experience into a multi-dimensional one, which will require a significant creative effort. This new world will lead to the fast development of a creative economy. The ma...
21 October 2022 /crypto /markets Digital Banking Trends
Jelle Van Schaick Head of Marketing at Intergiro
Welcome to the exciting world of payments! In this fascinating industry, acquiring is a key aspect. But what exactly is merchant acquiring? And how does it differ from an issuing bank or a payment processor? Read on to learn more about this important part of the payments ecosystem. A customer's transaction is just a tap away with their card. But wh...
19 October 2022 /payments /markets The Payments Business
Yuliya Barabash Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers
Do you love fintech as much as I do? Especially the Ukrainian one, which drives the banking system of my native country. It is still very young but makes progress that fascinates foreign banks. For instance, PrivatBank was the world’s first to develop payment mini-terminals, allow entering internet banking through QR code, launch online encashment,...
17 October 2022 /payments /markets Fintech World
Amit Agarwal Founder at Cyber Infrastructure
A digital signature is an electronic representation of a user's signature. Digital Signing is often used for online transactions. When a customer signs into your website, they can digitally sign a transaction so that it cannot be altered without their knowledge. They also provide proof of identity through their email address. The issue is that in ...
17 October 2022 /markets
Inna Demchenko Head of project at Bank
According to the statistics of National Bank depository, since the beginning of the war, Ukraine has raised about UAH 150 billion (about USD 4 billion in equivalent) through the sale of government bonds, which indicates a high level of trust in the state and faith in its future. Domestic government bonds are securities issued by the Ministry of
14 October 2022 /markets Fintech
Retired Member
Blockchain networks use mining to create and validate new blocks of transactions and secure the network. Simply put, cryptocurrency mining is a process of creating new digital coins. Bitcoin and many other blockchain networks use the Proof of Work (PoW) consensus algorithm for cryptocurrency mining. Proof of work is a system where computers compe...
14 October 2022 /crypto /markets Blockchain Observations
The journey of US Settlements has progressed significantly over the last couple of decades - from T+3 in 2008, to T+2 in 2017. It has received a further thrust with recent recommendation of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) for moving to T+1, by H1 2024. This is a logical continuation of accelerating settlements as...
12 October 2022 /regulation /markets Banking Regulations
Stan Cowan
Economic downturns and an increase in fraud go hand in hand. It happened during the great recession in the 1920s, in 2008, and during the COVID crisis starting in 2020. You don’t have to be clairvoyant to predict if it will happen again in the next few years, during another recession. During the last few weeks, a gloomy outlook started to emerge o...
11 October 2022 /markets /predictions Financial Risk Management
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