John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited
Joe Garner’s Future of Payment review published in 2023 on behalf of the UK Government reflected the complexity of the current instant payment UK environment. The situation has allowed the UK’s early leadership in global instant payments to decline. The UK is starting to fall behind in terms of person-to-person payments made by bank account transf...
10 April 2024 /payments /regulation Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Harriet Christie Chief Operating Officer at Mirrorweb
The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) is trying to instigate deep cultural change around compliance following a high-profile crackdown on ‘off-channel’ communications. Many firms find themselves in a difficult scenario – a kind of regulatory purgatory where they know that they need to make significant changes to their recordkeeping infrastruct...
09 April 2024 /regulation /wealth RegTech
Anuj Goel CEO at Cyware
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a new European regulation designed to fortify the cybersecurity landscape and ensure financial firms can effectively manage digital risks. Coming into effect in January 2025, financial entities have a matter of months to ensure their cybersecurity capabilities align with a number of new DORA requirem...
04 April 2024 /regulation Regulatory Reporting
Raj Bakhru CEO at BlueFlame AI
Generative AI: Navigating the Landscape In today's dynamic financial services market, generative AI stands at the forefront of technological advancement and innovation, offering unprecedented opportunities for growth and efficiency. As AI continues to gain traction, a critical question confronts businesses: Should they invest in a ready-made AI s...
28 March 2024 /regulation /predictions Alternative Investments
Dmitri Gmyza Co-Founder at Ultra Stellar
There have been a lot of inventions over the course of history that revolutionised the way people handle their business processes. From clay tablets in Mesopotamia as early as 9000 BCE to paper in China at about 100 CE all the way to computers in the second half of the 20th century. What is the next thing that would make us rethink our ways and ra...
22 March 2024 /regulation Law and Finance
Nick Green Director at Purple Patch Broking Ltd
Credit providers understand the critical challenge with the rise of complex financial crimes, from cyber theft to money laundering. Criminals are using advanced technologies—the same ones that make digital banking possible—to break through security defences. In response, credit providers are forced to constantly modernise their approach to crime pr...
19 March 2024 /regulation /retail Banking
Chris Brown CEO and Executive Coach at New Cyber Executive
Fund management executives and board directors play a crucial role in helping asset management firms navigate cybersecurity. As the financial, operational and reputational costs of cyber risk continue to mount, successful collaboration between fund management executives, cybersecurity executives and the board is essential for effective oversight o...
18 March 2024 /security /regulation Information Security
Richard White Head of Trade Finance at Commercial Banking Applications (CBA)
A continued push for digitisation, transparency and automation in trade finance prompts the question about the impact a migration of Swift messaging from MT to an ISO 20022 standard (MX) would have on global trade finance operations. As the payments and cash management industry has already been finding out, there are benefits, challenges and costs ...
18 March 2024 /regulation /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
Richard Bennett CEO at Razor Risk
It is around a year since Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic failed, and while its effects were by no means as far reaching as those in the global financial crisis over 15 years ago, it has sent substantial repercussions throughout the industry, its regulators, and governing bodies. Here, we take a look at some of the global r...
18 March 2024 /regulation /wholesale Financial Risk Management
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Financial crime continues to be a major issue, undermining the trust and safety of global financial systems. The United Nations estimates that a staggering 2 to 5% of global GDP, or between EUR 715 billion and 1.87 trillion, is laundered each year. Moreover, about 50% of companies worldwide have experienced fraud in the last two years, underscorin...
18 March 2024 /regulation /crime Banking Regulations
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