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Freddie McMahon

Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd

CHATBOT BANK TELLERS BEGIN JOINING THE WORKFORCE WITH REGTECH CHATBOTS EXPECTED TO FOLLOW IN 2018

DBS Bank has been recognised as the Bank of the Year, Asia by The Banker, a member of the Financial Times Group, and Best Bank in Asia-Pacific by Global Finance. The bank has also been named "Safest Bank in Asia" by Global Finance for nine consecutive years from 2009 to 2017. Many banks have been closing branches. As a consequence, we ...

/ai /regulation Fintech

Charles Platt

Charles Platt President, EMEA at SAP Fioneer

PSD2 - 'Pop Idol' for Fintechs?

There is a dichotomy at the heart of talent shows like Pop Idol. Catapulting inexperienced people into the mainstream music business, controlled by distributors rather than producers, typically leads to short-lived success - at best. In the banking world, the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) will come into effect in January, 2018, allowing ...

/regulation Business Knowledge for IT

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Is RegTech the Silver Bullet to Fighting Financial Crime or is there more to it?

The 2016 Global Terrorism Index reported a 650% increase in deaths from terrorism amongst OECD member countries. In this environment, it is no surprise that governments are making a strong attempt to counter terrorist financing. Although we welcome new anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing regulations that have been introduced to tac...

/regulation /sibos Finextra@Sibos

Jean-Stephane Gourevitch

Jean-Stephane Gourevitch CEO at Mobile Convergence Ecosystems Ltd.

Red skies at dawn: Impacts of increased coordination between data protection and competition policy

It is commonly acknowledged that data are a fundamental engine for growth in the 21st Century economy. It is particularly true in Fintech and Insurtech, where most of the innovative products and services rely on the use, processing, exploitation of data whether personal data or other types of data. Data are increasingly becoming a new asset class...

/regulation /retail Digital Banking Trends

Freddie McMahon

Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd

GDPR CUSTOMER CONSENT TERMS AND CONDITIONS IN CONTENT FORM ARE NO LONGER FIT FOR PURPOSE

GDPR CUSTOMER CONSENT: TERMS AND CONDITIONS IN CONTENT FORM ARE NO LONGER FIT FOR PURPOSE - NOW IS THE TIME FOR CHATBOT DIALOGUE Consent is to give permission for something to happen. Consent is one of the specific EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) challenges impacting the Public Sector, Industries, Professional Services and inc...

/regulation Internal Auditors in Financial Services

Claus Christensen

Claus Christensen CEO at Know Your Customer

Time for technology to take the hard work out of KYC

A tidal wave of new regulations is coming, and it’s keeping KYC compliance officers awake at night. From the Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive being implemented now to MiFID II and GDPR due next year, the regulatory framework we all work in is changing dramatically. And while the focus up to now has been mostly on banks and financial instit...

/regulation Fintech

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Regtech: what's in a name?

This week's CSFI (Council for the Study of Financial Innovation) discussion between representatives from the Bank of England, VC Illuminate Financial and Kompli-Global, an intelligent KYC/AML utility, highlighted how elastic a term Regtech still is. But, more usefully, it enabled a set of common views, attitudes and interests to emerge which did mo...

/regulation Financial Services Regulation

Paul Miserez

Paul Miserez Standards Department at SWIFT

Security and compliance through standards

At the occasion of the 2017 Standards Forum to be held at Sibos in Toronto, Canada from 16 to 19 October, I interviewed a number of SWIFT standards experts about the content of this year's programme. During the weeks leading up to Sibos, my posts will offer readers a preview of what people can expect to hear about in Toronto. In the last of our p...

/security /regulation Standards Forum

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Cybersecurity: Getting the basics right

October is Cybersecurity Month – so it’s a good time to step back and consider whether or not your organization is getting the fundamentals right. Many experts believe that ensuring the basics are in place can dramatically reduce cyber risk, and regulators agree – not just in speeches but also in the new rules they are beginning to draft at grea

/security /regulation

Breana Patel

Breana Patel CEO | Thought leader in Bank Risk & Regulations at Bonova Advisory | Risk &Regulatory Advisory

Cyber Security Regulations : Financial Services

We live in an age where the threat of cyberattacks is seemingly imminent. As a result, many firms in the financial services and banking industries have stepped their game up and created specific security teams that can endure the various threats made by individual or organizational assailants. Also, to combat this risk, many regulatory bodies hav

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