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Remote working has changed our working model and while most people will welcome it, firms must ensure they have identified all regulatory risks. Lockdown has changed the world of work as we know it. Almost overnight firms were forced to shift to a remote working pattern. Although it has generally gone ahead smoothly, research suggests many firms ar...
16 April 2021 /regulation
Jane Jee
The number of women working in RegTech account for up to 35% of the industry’s workforce, which compares favourably to the FinTech industry, where 29% of roles are held by women. However, more can and should be done - as mentioned by Lucy Heavens, Co-founder of RegTech Women – from encouraging more young women into the RegTech industry, through ...
13 April 2021 /regulation /crime RegTech
Jonathan Bell CFO at PXP Financial
We all know that 2020 was an unusual and challenging year for everyone and as much as we would have all wished that things could have gone back to normal the second the clock struck midnight on the 31 December, that has unfortunately not been the case. Most industries and businesses continue to face a number of challenges, some carried over from l...
12 April 2021 /payments /regulation Fintech
Barley Laing UK Managing Director at Melissa
The last twelve months have been a challenging time for many in financial services, with the pandemic and also Brexit to contend with. This means it’s more important than ever to look at all options to keep customers happy and drive growth in 2021. Spring clean customer data A good place to start is with data. Best practice business decision makin...
12 April 2021 /regulation /identity Data Management and Governance
Nick Green Director at Purple Patch Broking Ltd
It’s increasingly difficult to achieve a reliable data set – and that could mean you can’t trust the information shared within your lending organisation. So, what’s the solution? In this blog, we explore how to gain high-quality data for credit risk programs, like AML, without it taking an abundance of your time. Beyond satisfying regulatory gover...
09 April 2021 /regulation /retail Data Management and Governance
6AMLD: A quick look at the data requirements for the 6th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (6AMLD) Anti-Money Laundering (AML) is one of the most intense areas of financial regulation. With the development of money laundering crimes constantly evolving, the steps firms take to prevent these crimes are often insufficient. With the 6th Anti-Money La...
09 April 2021 /regulation /retail Financial Services Regulation
Ian Bessarabia
In January 2021, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) issued a draft declaration intended to give partial effect to some of the recommendations contained in the 2020 Position Paper by declaring crypto-assets a financial product under the FAIS Act. The declaration would affect that any person furnishing advice or rendering intermediary se...
08 April 2021 /regulation /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Gary Paulin Global Head of Integrated Trading Solutions at Northern Trust Capital Markets
COVID-19 has prompted investment managers of all sizes to undertake a comprehensive review of their operating models. Market volatility, extreme margin pressure, technological complexity and business resiliency had all been at the forefront of their thinking way ahead of the pandemic, but the virus outbreak caused them to accelerate this process. ...
08 April 2021 /regulation /covid-19 Trends in Financial Services
GDPR fines shot up in 2020 as regulators start to crack down further, but it’s proving to be complicated for both regulators and the regulated. The arrival of GDPR felt like a storm brewing for many organisations. Some companies feared they would be forced to rethink their entire operating models. That hasn’t happened, but the regulations have st...
08 April 2021 /regulation
Maximilian Dyck
Originally posted on https://suade.org/learn/transforming-data-collection-fire-as-a-common-input-layer/ In January 2020, the Bank of England initiated a project entitled ‘transforming data collection’ with the aim to improve data at financial institutions and facilitate regulatory compliance processes. Among the Bank’s key considerations were com...
07 April 2021 /regulation RegTech
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