4442 Results from /regulation
Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd
Legacy Systems remain problematic. Legacy Systems constrain change enablement. FinTech accelerates change. Legacy Systems are costly and slow to change. FinTech is inexpensive and quick to change. The knowledge to change Legacy Systems dilutes overtime. Diluted knowledge increases cost, time and risk. Solution Stage 1 Capture Legacy Systems kno...
04 May 2018 /ai /regulation Business Knowledge for IT
Retired Member
GDPR outlines six principles that organizations need to abide by. These principles aren't new - they were already outlined in the 1995 directive, but GDPR has revised them slightly. We delve into each principle below: 1. Lawfulness, fairness and transparency Our last blog, on Legal Bases, falls within this principle. Controllers essentially need to...
03 May 2018 /regulation Banking Regulations
Need to stand up to cyber security breaches more effectively? Change your posture! An organisation’s ‘security posture’ indicates how robustly they are equipped to avoid, detect and repel cyber threats, based on current information security infrastructure and practices. Given ever-bolder cybercrime, a major review of security posture is now imper...
01 May 2018 /security /regulation
Best Practices in Managing Internal Capital AdequacyGuaranteeing a Solid Base of Capitalization Cooked down to its essence, the convulsion that overtook the international banking system in 2008 came down to institutions lacking adequate capitalization. The failure of Lehman Brothers — due to its holdings in the subprime market not being sufficientl...
30 April 2018 /regulation /wholesale Banking Regulations
We are all being inundated with requests for consent to continue using services as the GDPR deadline rapidly comes closer and closer. Many of us are not finding the consent experience very good. The question from these experiences we need to ask ourselves are we any the wiser of understanding the context of how our personal data is processed. The...
27 April 2018 /ai /regulation Data Protection Act Issues
Why Zuckerberg’s Congress appearance sounds a stark warning to financial services companies. When Mark Zuckerberg was called in for two days of questioning by Congress earlier this month, the world waited to hear what questions these powerful lawmakers, many former lawyers, had to ask. With the CEO founder of Facebook in the hot seat, would they a...
24 April 2018 /regulation Fintech
The first principle of data protection requires that all personal data be processed lawfully, fairly and transparently. A legal (or lawful) basis for processing must be satisfied before an organization can process any personal data. GDPR outlines six scenarios in which data processing is legally permitted. Unless the organization can show that the ...
24 April 2018 /regulation Banking Regulations
Enterprise Risk Management. Arguably the largest evolutionary change in risk management for financial institutions has been the elevation of the risk management function to a key role in firm management. Risk is truly an overriding firmwide concern in modern financial institutions and a centralized oversight group is needed to provide governance
19 April 2018 /regulation Operational Risk Management
1. Beneficial Ownership Threshold FinCEN has reiterated that the specified threshold (25%) is a floor, not a ceiling. It has left to the discretion of covered financial institutions (FIs) to implement stricter thresholds if they so choose. In addressing a requirement to impose stricter thresholds for certain customers, FinCEN directs that any incr...
19 April 2018 /regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation
Starting October 1, 2018, CME Regulatory Advisory RA1720-5 comes into effect. The advisory details the limited use of suspense accounts, which are temporary holding accounts submitted at the time of order entry into Globex, but prior to the allocation of the executions to specific accounts on a carrying clearing member’s books. Only a de minimis ...
18 April 2018 /regulation
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