Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
The past few days have seen a surge in the value of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general. The bulls are on parade and the world of cryptocurrency trade is stirring. Some speculate that this might be the institutional investors finally making it onto the market because of the single one hundred million dollar USD buy order. Although today I wou...
03 April 2019 /regulation
Retired Member
Regulatory compliance is a time and resource-consuming burden for every financial institution – since the Global Financial Crisis, regulatory requirements have increased exponentially. Regulators are increasingly demanding more detailed information, and firms now have to demonstrate greater levels of responsiveness, accuracy and monitoring of thei...
01 April 2019 /ai /regulation Financial Services Regulation
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
It is getting crowdy in the world of Blockchain Associations in Europe. Following the examples of The European Blockchain Partnership, The Blockchain Association of Europe, the EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum, and many others, end 2018 a number of leading blockchain corporates including Ripple joined forces to create the Blockchain for Europ...
31 March 2019 /regulation Blockchain Observations
Konrad Litwin Global General Manager - Testing at Perforce Software
In the compliance and regulation-driven financial services market, we all know that audits are a fact of life. What is perhaps less well-known is that software development is also subject to these audits. It makes sense because after all, software is at the heart of most financial products these days and it can be an area of risk if not managed ...
29 March 2019 /regulation Banking Regulations
Keith Stanton International Product Manager (Fraud & Risk) at FIS
For at least the last three decades, fraud monitoring of transactions and portfolios has been a cornerstone of protecting the brand, be it for scheme, bank or consumer reputation. There have been a number of heavy-duty products in the market place in that time that target specific monitoring needs. However financial institutions can meet regulator...
24 March 2019 /payments /regulation Financial Risk Management
Henri Wajsblat Financial Services Expert at Anaplan
Tackling profitability challenges in asset management Henri Wajsblat, Anaplan’s Head of Financial Services Solutions, interviewed Accenture Managing Director Julien Ciroux about profitability challenges in the asset management industry, what asset managers should expect from technology, and the benefits of Connected Planning. 1. In a context of i...
22 March 2019 /regulation Trends in Financial Services
Michael Chambers Director | Head of Prudential at Wheelhouse Advisors
The prudential framework is a new rule book developed by the European Commission (EC) for investment firms. It is designed to be simpler and more proportionate to a firm’s operations. But with new rules come new challenges, and firms should take time now to assess the impact these rules will have on their capital, liquidity, remuneration and discl...
21 March 2019 /regulation MiFID
Nicola Cowburn Chief Marketing Officer at CUBE
The tangled web of regulation is hitting the headlines, yet again. Changes proposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to the 2003 Safeguards Rule have been met by warnings from the American Financial Services Association (AFSA) that they may contain ‘traps’ for unwary financial institutions attempting to meet both state and federal laws. How...
20 March 2019 /ai /regulation Financial Services Regulation
With the rise of national digital identity in several countries, and the very real need for one billion people around the world without an official identity, there are many questions around how best to do it; what is the right kind of technology? What level of privacy is required? Who should be responsible for it? I’ll say it now; there are no perf...
20 March 2019 /regulation Blockchain Observations
Saloni Ramakrishna Author; Senior Director at Oracle
I had, in my last blog, said “The objective of Industrialization is to drive innovation and efficiency by reengineering the value chain to add measurable value”. In this blog, I take a deeper dive into process of Industrialization with Stress Testing platform as the use case to illustrate the point. The regulators are demanding consistency across r...
19 March 2019 /regulation Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
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