Simon Gilbert Founder at Elmore
Think of an athlete attempting to beat a ‘personal best’, or someone scaling a mountain. Both are individual challenges. In the business world, we’re now used to hearing about another type of challenge, or more accurately, ‘challengers’. Namely, disruptive start-ups who are turning traditional business models on their heads and taking on industry ...
27 September 2021 /regulation /crime FintechInsuranceMatters
Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com
As expected, it’s been a slow third quarter for changes to foreign direct investment (FDI). Following on from my last update, we’ll start in the AsiaPac region and move westward. Australia has been evaluating the reforms to foreign direct investment that commenced in beginning of the year. The Treasury is evaluating whether these reforms have stru...
24 September 2021 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
Robert Prigge CEO at Jumio
In recent years, anti-money laundering (AML) has become an increasingly sophisticated criminal activity. It’s estimated that between 2% and 5% of global GDP is laundered each year, and identity theft has now become one of the top money laundering trends. It’s therefore not surprising that AML rules have been required to keep up. In a race to stop ...
24 September 2021 /regulation /identity
Kartik Swaminathan Author - 3F: Future Fintech Framework & Founder at Fintastech (Fintech Consulting & Coaching)
Portability is a key capability for fintech’s in future, as it enables the customer to switch over / transfer his account, from one Financial provider to another. This can be for various reasons, like he is unhappy with existing provider, or wants to switch, because he is getting better pricing, features etc. Portability also enables business cont...
24 September 2021 /regulation /identity Standards Forum
Retired Member
Midsized financial institutions must pay close attention to anti-money laundering Midsized financial institutions (with $1 billion - $10 billion in assets) play an essential role in our financial system, especially in the U.S. where banks with less than $10 billion in assets represent 14% of the market and 97% of the total number of banks. Unfortu...
22 September 2021 /regulation /crime Trends in Financial Services
Mark Alcaide Senior Managing Director, Consulting at Foreside
Amid broader digital transformation trends, many service providers have re-imagined their value proposition to take advantage of new technologies. The compliance consulting space is no different. The prevailing question, however, is at what point does the focus on technology begin to crowd out the human elements in the value chain and, more import...
22 September 2021 /regulation
John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited
UKFinance1 announces a saving of £32million in fraud in the first half of 2021 with bank branches, building societies and Post Offices working with the police through the Banking Protocol rapid response scam process. Noting the scheme had led to 934 arrests since 2016, an average of 190 per year. This is good, traditional police work coordinated ...
21 September 2021 /payments /regulation Online Banking
Dexter Penn CEO at Kalgera
Mental capacity is the ability to receive and process information to make and communicate decisions on specific questions. We make decisions all day every day, from deciding what to eat and what to wear to more complex decisions like our finances - whether to spend or save, or whether to take out a certain financial product. Throughout our lives, ...
21 September 2021 /regulation /inclusion Financial Inclusion
Alastair Goodwin CEO at Adoptech Limited
Right now all your energy is consumed on building your service, MVP’s, winning pilots, initial sales and building towards your next investment round. The last thing you need is to spend time writing company policies, right? Wrong. Prospective clients and investors don’t care that you are a startup or that you are all working flat out and wearing va...
21 September 2021 /regulation /startups Data Management and Governance
Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS
Why Automation is Crucial Collections, like virtually all areas of financial services, is an increasingly digital business, with universal digital drivers forcing the pace of both change and opportunity. As Cisco’s outgoing CEO John Chambers boldly predicted in 2015, “At least 40% of all businesses will die in the next 10 years… if they don’t figu...
16 September 2021 /regulation /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
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