4241 Results from /regulation
Saloni Ramakrishna Author; Senior Director at Oracle
I have always maintained that at a fundamental level commercial banking, as the name itself suggests, is a business and has the core values and principles of a commercial enterprise - that of Liquidity, Solvency and Profitability. Safety, Stability plus Social and Economic relevance are as critical given that banks are powerful economic instrument...
08 June 2020 /regulation /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Retired Member
Richard Price, UK&I Sales Director, TIBCO Software More than ever before, banks need to stay relevant, as traditional financial services companies are competing with far nimbler challenger brands that are changing traditional service models and product mixes. We’ve seen this accelerate, as the world continues to be turned upside down by COVID-1...
05 June 2020 /regulation /markets Open Banking
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
The unbounding exemptions for MIFID II have mostly to do with the costs of research services from asset management companies. Due to the very clear monetary difference between the services provided by EU and US-based managers, companies often feel cheated or not obligated to provide the payment for services rendered. To put it more into perspect...
04 June 2020 /regulation MiFID
Sassan Danesh Managing Partner at Etrading Software Ltd
Finance is very much a data business with financial firms critically dependent on good information. They need fast access to comprehensive data, which provides them with insight in order to provide services and compete effectively. As a result, firms have been making significant investments in new technologies to improve their analysis and store l...
02 June 2020 /regulation /markets Banking Regulations
Adrian Sargent Founder and Managing Director at ESG Treasury Ltd
Writen by Colin Weir Associate at Carlyle - Executive Search insights provided by Adrian Sargent The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted that financial stress events can occur with little prior warning and may have longer-lasting consequences than past crises. The crash of 2008 saw banks unable to achieve liquidity which led to them contributing to muc...
30 May 2020 /regulation /covid-19 Banking Regulations
Adam Holden Chief Executive Officer at NorthRow
The government's recent Bounce Back Loan Scheme has been a lifeline for small businesses struggling under the economic pressure of the pandemic. With more than £14bn lent to SMEs and sole traders, there are growing concerns within the banking sector for increasing default rates in the years ahead. In our latest article we discuss what the outlook ...
29 May 2020 /regulation /covid-19
Whilst lockdowns are being lifted in some parts of the world, few expect a return to pre-coronavirus norms. However, while work-life habits may have changed, in sectors such as FinTech working patterns were already much more flexible and fluid. Indeed, in financial services more broadly, rapid and transformative change is constant and has been give...
29 May 2020 /regulation /covid-19 Financial Services Regulation
Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd
Now is the time to challenge convention Our interactions with regulation play a ubiquitous and increasing role in the world economy. Individuals and organizations interact with regulation to ensure compliance and safeguard actions within firms, between firms and all the way through markets to the end consumer. Given the pervasive nature of interac...
28 May 2020 /regulation /covid-19 Financial Services Regulation
The last decade has been incredible for fintech, with advancements being made across a range of areas including retail banking, wealth management and, in particular, payments. To give some perspective, in 2019 we saw 64% of consumers worldwide using one or more fintech platforms, nearly twice the amount of those taking advantage of them just two y...
26 May 2020 /payments /regulation Fintech
Contemporary government policy interventions are increasingly defined by data, indicators, and metrics. Furthermore, Data-driven ‘radical incrementalism’ methodologies devised by the now independent the UK’s Government Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) – which is now independent of the UK government – have been successfully used worldwide. BIT’s usu...
23 May 2020 /regulation /covid-19 Data Management and Governance
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