4138 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
MiFID has achieved the rare feat of becoming a genericized trademark. In the same way that Xerox stands for copy machines in general, MiFID has turned into a synonym for all financial markets’ regulation. Thinking about its scorecard on its first birthday, whether MiFID II really is ground-breaking, or deserving remains debatable. However, there i...
03 January 2019 /regulation /wholesale
Matt Smith CEO at SteelEye
We are close approaching the 1st anniversary of the most anticipated regulatory change in recent years – MiFID II. Sweeping into force on January 3, 2018 MiFID II brought with it a huge overhaul of the financial services industry that aimed to increase transparency, reduce costs for investors and clampdown on market misconduct in the financial ind...
02 January 2019 /regulation Banking Regulations
As Autumn turned to Winter and the Christmas tree went up, I’ve found myself daydreaming of a European holiday somewhere sunny. Maybe it’s the Instagram feed full of friends on a sojourn to Italy, France, or Germany, or the constant barrage of Premier League adverts on the NBC Networks (Let’s Go Gunners!), but earlier this year it was something el...
18 December 2018 /payments /regulation Trends in Financial Services
Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech
“Central Bank of Russia takes control over foreign payment systems and e-wallets”, “Alipay and WeChat Pay will be restricted in Russia”, “Russian Central Bank will strengthen regulation towards Apple Pay and Google Pay” — these were the business news headlines after new amendments to payment laws were introduced to the Russian government last week...
18 December 2018 /payments /regulation Banking Regulations
Marc Gratacos Founder and Managing Partner at TradeHeader
With the pressures around regulatory compliance only continuing to intensify, the critical role played in the reporting of financial transactions by product category codes has come into ever sharper focus. Product categorization involves comparing products that may be structurally very similar in 99% of their features – it is the remaining 1% that ...
17 December 2018 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
Many regulations impact the way banks and financial services firms make commitments or conduct transactions with partners and customers. This means that they must find relevant contracts, review the affected language, and then make business decisions to revise or novate the contract, renegotiate commercial terms, or terminate to avoid non-compli
17 December 2018 /ai /regulation Fintech
Sam Goffman Business analyst at Forex
Considering the increasingly strict approach of regulators to tokens and cryptocurrencies in recent years, attracting investments through Security Token Offering (STO) is the next logical step for the industry as a whole and determines the course of its development towards a more civilized and transparent market. Security Token Offering involves ...
13 December 2018 /regulation Trends in Financial Services
In a recent speech at Bloomberg, Megan Butler, Executive Director of Supervision at the FCA, described the threat level facing financial firms as ‘remarkable’. These comments were made in light of a new a report revealing that the root cause of nearly a fifth of operational incidents reported to the FCA in the last 12 months were cyber-related. ...
13 December 2018 /security /regulation Information Security
Michael Kerman Marketing Executive at Self-Employed
Every year, without fail, many banks and financial institutions embark on internal projects to improve their compliance operations. And every year, also without fail, they stumble and get stuck. What is it about customer screening that makes it so hard for firms to do it themselves? On the surface, it ought to make sense for these organizations to...
11 December 2018 /ai /regulation Financial Risk Management
Steve Wilcockson Product Marketing at Quantexa
It's been a busy and fun Autumn on the London financial services conference circuit. I've been lucky enough to attend a healthy diversity of events with distinct though intersecting agendas. I've attended two alternative data events, both heady mixes of vendor/user speed-dating interspersed with panel discussions, one up-and-coming Quant event and...
11 December 2018 /regulation MiFID
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