4138 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
For several years, the narrative in financial technology has essentially argued, “The post-crisis period and its focus on heavy regulation is over. Enter Innovation.” That narrative was born of—and reinforced by—the fintech market heating up with venture capital, the idea that emerging tech could be borrowed from consumer banking and be simply rep...
21 January 2019 /regulation Fintech
Sam Goffman Business analyst at Forex
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are developing cryptocurrency, the volume of Bitcoin transactions has increased by 63% over the past ten months, and other news of the past days. Bitcoin fell by 4% over the weekend, the price of cryptocurrency dropped to $ 3,580. Over the past two days, several events occurred at once, which influenced bot...
21 January 2019 /regulation Financial Inclusion
Shirish Netke President at Amberoon
Money laundered through the banking system is estimated to be over 2 trillion dollars a year. A recent study by BAFT (Bankers Association of Finance and Trade) estimates that 1% of the proceeds from financial crimes are intercepted. Meanwhile, nine out of ten suspicious activities flagged by AML software in banks are false alarms. Let’s put these ...
20 January 2019 /ai /regulation Banking Regulations
Today’s global banks and asset managers seek out technology rationalization and cost reduction wherever possible, and increasingly, this includes farming out back-office processes to external providers, which should lead to a slimmer and more manageable stack, with more internal attention paid to value-added activities, better data management, and...
15 January 2019 /regulation
The first service of an GDPR notice – to analytics firm AggregateIQ for its controversial use of voter data – reinforced the severity and significance of GDPR for organisations worldwide. Though the May 25, 2018 deadline for compliance may initially have been treated as a one-off, box-ticking exercise, the reality is that GDPR brings heightened, l...
Monica Hovsepian Global Industry Strategist, Financial Services at Opentext
The New Year is upon us, and with it come new challenges and opportunities for the Financial Services industry. The industry is currently experiencing unprecedented disruption from factors like new market entrants (FinTechs, InsurTechs), evolving regulatory changes, increasing incidents of cyber-crime, mandates to reduce costs and deliver efficien...
11 January 2019 /ai /regulation
Anyone with a pulse and the money to cover legal fees can issue a cybercurrency. Once the cybercurrency is created, however, brokers are needed to sell and make a market for it. Given cybercurrencies are an unregulated market, then there are few concerns over how much commission is paid to the broker. The bigger the commission, the greater incenti...
11 January 2019 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
Breana Patel CEO | Thought leader in Bank Risk & Regulations at Bonova Advisory | Risk &Regulatory Advisory
At Bonova Advisory we interview Industry Thought Leaders, C-suite from large firms and Influencers on a variety of topics pertaining to Risk, Regulation, Corporate Governance and Digital Innovations. Last week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Soubhagya Parija Chief Risk Officer of nation’s largest public power authority New York Power Authority ...
10 January 2019 /regulation Business Knowledge for IT
Richard Miller Product Owner at RegDefy (MV37)
Several years ago Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) were going to solve all problems: from streamlining payments, to world peace! Since then, most have fallen away as not having the business case to support them, but a few use cases have stood the test of time. Know Your Customer (KYC) is one of these. There are many DLT based KYC...
10 January 2019 /regulation Blockchain Observations
Martin Kisby Head of Compliance at Equiniti Credit Services
For any FCA regulated firm, the risk and compliance function is an essential and integral part of the business – but it wasn’t always that way. Martin Kisby, Head of Compliance at Equiniti Credit Services, explores the motivations behind the evolution of compliance functions in consumer credit firms. Risk and compliance departments, once held ...
07 January 2019 /regulation /retail Financial Risk Management
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