4459 Results from /regulation
Francesco Fulcoli Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Flagstone
On 31 March 2025, the Bank of England Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) announced a significant proposal: raising the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) deposit protection limit from the current £85,000 to £110,000. This move marks the first change in the limit since 2017 and reflects an effort to keep pace with inflation and evol...
01 April 2025 /regulation /retail Fintech
Cassy Ramsey Chief Risk Officer at Aion Bank
Compliance is often dismissed as a business blocker. In my experience, it can be quite the opposite if organizations can rethink the way they operate. Putting people in the second line of defence on deals from the start has been crucial for Aion Bank to roll out banking-as-a-service to customers, sometimes within weeks. Cassy Ramsey is chief risk...
31 March 2025 /payments /regulation
Dan Robinson Founder & CEO at Hackford
What is the biggest risk for an investment manager? Financial risk. All financial services providers are in the business of buying, selling, slicing, and repackaging risk—by financial means. So, a firm's operational risks are mostly also financial risks. And when your marketplace is the financial market, your market risk is really financial risk a...
31 March 2025 /ai /regulation RegTech
Dominic Mensah Director Strategic Accounts at Lakeside Software
Artificial intelligence is already reshaping the financial sector with 75% of banking, pensions and other financial firms using AI, and another 10% planning to use it over the next three years. According to the second EY European Financial Services AI Survey, a significant 91% of UK financial firms have integrated artificial intelligence into the...
27 March 2025 /ai /regulation Outsourcing Banking, Financial Services Operations
Steven Rackham CTO for Financial Services at NetApp
As of the 17th of January 2025, financial services organisations operating within the EU must comply with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). This mandates that they must adopt robust risk management and prevention frameworks to boost their resilience against cyber-attacks. As cyberattacks and threat actors become more advanced, it is a...
27 March 2025 /security /regulation
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has just released its new five-year strategy, and it sets a bold, forward-thinking agenda for the UK’s financial sector. Rather than simply tightening rules or reacting to emerging risks, the FCA is seeking to reshape its role, from watchdog to enabler, from reactive to purposeful. The strategy is anchored in...
26 March 2025 /regulation /crime Fintech
Steve Pannifer SVP Digital Identity at Fime
At the end of February, important interoperability test events took place for Mobile Driver's Licenses (mDL) in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The vision and the challenge. The vast majority of mDL solutions are being developed to align with the ISO 18013 series of specifications. This is essential. Like passports, driver's licenses have utility way be
26 March 2025 /regulation /identity Digital Identity Management
On 25 March 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Feedback Statement FS25/2, which lays the groundwork for a multi-phase plan to simplify its regulatory framework following the implementation of the Consumer Duty. The initiative comes after widespread calls from firms and stakeholders to streamline the FCA’s rules, reduce unneces...
25 March 2025 /regulation /inclusion Fintech
Igor Kostyuchenok SVP of Engineering at Mbanq
Starting your own bank has never been easier. The aftermath of the FinTech revolution left us with a myriad of options for every single part of banking operations. Be it a payment module, an AML and Anti Fraud solution, a card issuing and processing capability or even a Core Banking - you can assemble a bank in million of different ways. Despite ...
21 March 2025 /regulation /retail Banking and Lending Solutions
John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited
Why PS24/7 Faster Payments APP scams reimbursement is needed From 2017 to 2023 Bank/PSPs retained £1.7 billion, an average of £240 million a year of money dishonestly taken out of bank accounts. The holder of the bank account was held liable and could not reclaim their money. Over a million cases reported were reported and a further 40% went unr...
21 March 2025 /payments /regulation Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
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