4442 Results from /regulation
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
A banker quit his job and started a new company. He applied for a debit card for his company’s bank account. Ram, as we'll call the ex-banker, completed the required forms, submitted his company's board resolution for the debit card and handed over copies of his company's incorporation certificate, articles of association, and all the other docume...
28 January 2019 /security /regulation
Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services
Governments such as the UK have come under renewed pressure to limit or suspend visa systems which have the effect of offering visas, residency or passports to the rich-and-famous, if they “invest” in the country concerned. Recent editions of the British Airways “High Life” magazine have included an insert from St Kitts and Nevis that reads initial...
24 January 2019 /payments /regulation Open Banking
Retired Member
In the midst of U.S. midterm election results, the public witnessed various instances of new leadership arising in a changing political climate. Just as politicians learn to pivot their stances to best address the current needs of their state and country, so too can chief risk officers (CROs) restructure their roles in changing market dynamics. Ri...
22 January 2019 /regulation /startups Financial Risk Management
Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd
79% of executives now believe seamless and digital access to knowledge is very important to overall business performance. Executives understand that there is too much dependency upon knowledge in people’s heads. And, even when it is documented, there is inadequate transparency and traceability to the way it is used to make decisions, when applied ...
22 January 2019 /ai /regulation Digital Banking Trends
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
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