4358 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
Whatever side you were on in the Brexit debate, it’s hard to imagine any merchant welcoming reports of the card schemes quintupling fees for cross-border payments between the UK and EU. No longer constrained by the EU’s cap on interchange fees, Visa and Mastercard plan to increase their interchange to 150 basis points (bps) for credit card, and 115...
26 March 2021 /payments /regulation Open Banking
Anne Plested Regulation at ION Markets
The review of MiFID/MiFIR is now well underway following the regulations’ 2-year anniversary in 2020. In their most recent consultation paper ESMA, the European securities and markets authority, was keen to hear from trading venues and investment firms engaged in algorithmic and high-frequency trading. Consulting on the efficiencies of the existin...
25 March 2021 /regulation /markets
Alistair Catto Managing Director at Beyond
I recently co-hosted an industry workshop with Arachnys, a KYC and AML data specialist, exploring the potential benefits and challenges associated with adopting Perpetual KYC. Limited to just 20 participants, we were joined by representatives from several leading banks and asset managers including, Goldman Sachs, Investec, HSBC, Morgan Stanley and...
23 March 2021 /regulation /crime Financial Risk Management
The Covid crisis has been challenging one for all of us, it has presented with opportunities for both good and bad. The pandemic provided the necessary impetus to drive the Digitalisation agenda within the banking sector, at the same time such a transformational agenda has helped criminals to benefit greatly. The business were directly impacted du...
18 March 2021 /regulation /crime Financial Risk Management
Sean Salloux CEO at Sentinel Digital
E-commerce and online marketplaces are very much here to stay and they’re growing, fast. However, their success often depends on having an effective payments infrastructure. Taking your business global isn’t as straightforward as setting up an e-commerce site and waiting for orders to come in. To accept payments, you must be compliant with regiona...
17 March 2021 /payments /regulation Fintech
Vincent Choi CEO and founder at Pomelo Pay
The UK is finally keeping up on contactless payments. Despite London being a world capital for financial technology, Britain has lagged other nations when it comes to some key elements of frictionless consumer finance. Even the increased limit of £45 for a single contactless payment, which was introduced in April 2020 after the pandemic hit, was lo...
15 March 2021 /payments /regulation
I recently reviewed one of the best books written on AI to date, AI Super-Powers, where a brief history of AI is explored across the four waves of evolution experienced over the last few decades. From chess-playing, payments, making friendships, medical diagnoses, and help with investing money, AI continues to play a much broader role across many ...
12 March 2021 /regulation /retail
Lynda Kershaw
We all recognize that the pandemic has made digital transformation a more urgent priority for financial services organisations. With employees working from home and many more customers wanting to do business virtually, the pressure to innovate and roll out digital and virtual services to stay ahead of the competition is intense. However, a major b...
11 March 2021 /regulation /covid-19 Data Management and Governance
Pete McIntyre Financial Services Director at Planixs
September 2008 saw the emblematic moment of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) when Lehman Brothers collapsed. Intraday liquidity was fundamental to this collapse. Correspondent banks were not willing to provide intraday credit lines with Lehman Brothers looking such a bad risk and demanded Lehman either prefund accounts or collateralise the credit...
11 March 2021 /regulation Treasury Management
Banking is open for business Open banking is mutually beneficial for banks and consumers. It provides an opportunity for banking providers to retain and grow their customer base, by offering consumers access to better and more targeted financial advice, services and products. Open banking has the potential to generate an accessible and personalise...
09 March 2021 /regulation /retail Open Banking
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