4231 Results from /regulation
Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com
It is widely known that Norway has one of the tightest substantial shareholding disclosure windows among countries. While many countries allow for reporting of substantial shareholding within days of a threshold breach, Norway’s requirement is immediately. What does immediately mean? According to Rulefinder, the online regulatory intelligence solut...
16 February 2022 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
Matt Neill Managing Director at Beyond
One of the most common comments we hear from senior leaders of Client Onboarding, CLM or KYC functions in Financial Institutions, is that their Front-Office is frustrated with these processes. Often, technology is held up as the solution to this problem, but in our experience, there are many underlying causes of their frustrations that are not rela...
15 February 2022 /regulation /wholesale Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Nick Green Director at Purple Patch Broking Ltd
How financial services procurement can gain better leverage with credit data providers Over the last few years, financial services businesses have grown to rely on procurement to support and strengthen supplier relationships. That’s especially true during the pandemic. According to one study, 52% of enterprises viewed procurement’s impact during t...
15 February 2022 /regulation /retail Financial Supply Chain
Retired Member
Anyone who has been on the London Underground in the past few years cannot have failed to notice the exhortations to invest in BitCoin, or the next big meme coin, as this freedom of information request shows. Social media is awash with celebrities and influencers flogging crypto, something that had already caught the attention of the UK's financi...
10 February 2022 /regulation /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Alessandro Hatami Managing Partner at Pacemakers.io
Regulators across the globe are keen to regulate the new digital currencies, financial products and exchanges. The recent announcement by the US regulator CFTC (Commodities and Futures Trading Commission) is a recent example. All regulators say that they aim to provide market protection for consumers and reduce risks in the space. Interestingly th...
10 February 2022 /regulation /crypto DeFi
Gleb Kozlov CEO at KoronaPay
Any fintech working in Europe would agree – I’m sure – that the growing user data-related regulatory pressure has been a major headache. There is as well an ongoing battle between Europe and U.S. Big Techs about the treatment of personal data, with even Meta now considering shutting down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if regulators fail “to ado...
09 February 2022 /payments /regulation Fintech
Jennifer Guy Managing Director at ICP Credit
Over the last five years, innovation in the Middle East has been developing at a rapid rate. With a $4 trillion GDP, the Middle East is a big attractive market for economic development, investment, and innovation. This trend is likely to persist throughout 2022. And that’s why VCs and investors are seeing the region more optimistically than ever b...
08 February 2022 /regulation /markets
Stephan Wolf CEO at Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation
According to EY’s 2021 Global Corporate Reporting Survey, 76% of the world’s major finance leaders back the need for globally consistent environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards. Stephan Wolf explains why ensuring a holistic entity identification mechanism through a global standard – such as the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) - is a fo...
04 February 2022 /regulation /identity
The FCA had a busy year in 2021 as it sought to fight wars on several fronts against fraud, scams and anti-money laundering. Here’s what those actions can teach us… £568 million – that’s the level of fines levied by the FCA in 2021 according to its recent report. It reflects a busy year in which fraudulent behaviour has risen and companies have
04 February 2022 /regulation /crime
Changes and extensions to foreign direct investment rules in the fourth quarter of 2021 continued to be fueled by Covid-19 as the Omicron variant made its debut in November. A few countries, France, Italy, and Spain have extended their existing FDI restrictions that were put in place in 2020 as temporary measures through to 31 December 2022. France...
27 January 2022 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
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