4230 Results from /regulation
Simon Gilbert Founder at Elmore
Insurance is based on the sound principle that underwriters should cover only acceptable and clearly understood risks. Following last year’s challenges in the crypto world, crypto exchange insurers are increasingly focusing on more rigorous controls in this fast-moving and dynamic space. One thing is certain: crypto exchanges with a transparent an...
13 January 2023 /regulation /crypto Finextra site news
Stan Cowan
It is becoming increasingly harder to delineate between fraud risk and compliance risk. The speed with which identity fraudsters and money launderers move to exploit gaps within financial crime risk management systems has increased due to the race toward greater digitalization and increasing service expectations from consumers. And community bank...
12 January 2023 /regulation /crime Financial Risk Management
Stuart Smith Head of Business Development at Acadia
In recent years, the financial industry has embraced the power of big data to gain valuable insights and drive better decision making. From identifying market trends and creating quantitative trading strategies to detecting fraud and managing risk, big data has become an indispensable tool for finance professionals. One of the key challenges of ...
10 January 2023 /payments /regulation
Ray Connolly Sales Director at Regtick
A compliance officer's journey towards ensuring regulatory compliance is challenging and fraught with obstacles. In today's world of constant change, new and amended regulations are introduced frequently on top of the constant pressure to reduce costs while increasing efficiencies. The Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) has the responsibility to ens...
10 January 2023 /regulation
Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com
It was a busy fourth quarter for regulations concerning foreign direct investment. It seems that not all were watching the World Cup. Several jurisdictions issued consultations concerning qualified holdings and investment screening: EU ECB – issued consultation (now closed) on a draft Guide which aims to increase transparency by clarifying the ECB...
09 January 2023 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
Gilbert Verdian Founder and CEO at Quant
Blockchain use cases abounded in 2022, but we’ve only scratched the surface of what this transformative technology can help achieve. What’s coming down the track in 2023 for the interplay between distributed ledger technology (DLT) and the financial services sector? 1. There will be agreement that the unregulated crypto experiment has failed ...
09 January 2023 /regulation /wholesale
Cristian Gheorghita Director of Sales at Fintech Galaxy
A few years since Open Banking took off in Bahrain, the local community is yet to witness a plethora of use cases built on top of Open Banking capabilities. Bahrain has been leading the financial services’ transformation in the MENA region, especially when it comes to regulating the participants’ interaction under the Open Banking umbrella. The Bah...
09 January 2023 /payments /regulation Open Banking
Sheridon Glenn Global VP, Strategic Markets & Initiatives at Guidewire
The ripples from Amazon’s announcement that it was entering the UK insurance market with its own aggregator are still gently washing over the industry. I say ripples, because it was not quite the shockwave that some in the industry have been holding their breath for ever since Big Tech first turned its attention to the market. As to how this invol...
09 January 2023 /regulation Digital Insurance Trends
John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited
As domestic payment fees 'go towards zero', how will PSP make any monies from the payments business, especially if the PSP is a non-bank1 and is OpenBanking an opportunity or challenge to PSPs? Taking a look at the PSP market size in the UK in 2022 was £11billion ($13Billon), 20,000 employees and 2,000 PSP(a) companies. The leaders: Worldpay, PayPa...
06 January 2023 /payments /regulation Mobile Financial Services (MFS)
Retired Member
While KYC and AML have been front of mind when it comes to compliance and the fight against fraud, anti-bribery and corruption compliance hasn’t been in the spotlight as much lately. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be paying close attention to it. Why is it important? Preventing bribery and corruption is a high priority for governments acr...
06 January 2023 /regulation /crime Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
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