4231 Results from /regulation
Rick Goud CIO at Zivver
When speaking to IT professionals in the finance sector about email security, they are often unaware that the majority of data leaks are caused by employee behaviour. Latest security incident reports from UK privacy regulator the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) quantify the extent of the problem. Its Q3 and Q4 figures show that from 1 Oc...
08 June 2021 /security /regulation Information Security
Retired Member
In April 2021, the EU proposed new regulation around the use of AI. Despite having left the EU, it remains the case that the UK lending market is intrinsically linked to the European banking sector and that the requirements of larger trading blocs tend to dictate the likely direction of travel for smaller markets such as the UK. Because of this, w...
08 June 2021 /regulation Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
After nearly five years of experimentation, blockchain has reached an important milestone in financial services. This year, several distributed ledger technology platforms are either running live or preparing to launch. As the industry starts to transition from its initial stage of research and development to this new phase of operations and growt...
07 June 2021 /regulation /markets Fintech
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
The seriousness with which insurers take Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years. As both investors and underwriters, insurers occupy a central role in the global economy that gives them significant influence over the business activities of others. With the increasing risks associated ...
04 June 2021 /regulation /sustainable Financial Risk Management
Karen Rudich CEO & Co-Founder at ELEMENTARYb
The unpopular answer is governance, one of the vital measures that companies need to adopt to ensure their businesses stand the course of time, but which was openly discussed at The Fintech Club recently. Brought to the fintech community by The Mayor’s International Business Programme and Innovate Finance, and chaired by Julia Streets, founder and ...
04 June 2021 /regulation /startups Fintech
Machine learning cab be used to design and understand problem and trying to derive solution using data. Being working as FinTech professional, I am seeing the change happening. I have extensively worked in Market Risk. As per definition, Market Risk is the risk of loss due to factors that affect an entire market or asset class. Market risk is also ...
02 June 2021 /regulation /markets Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group
I have co-authored this article with Sean Kiernan, CEO of Greengage (previously DAG Global). What will Britain’s role be as a financial innovation centre, post-Brexit? Our economy depends on it, yet over a year after our official exit from the EU on 31 January 2020, the answer is still not clear. In 2018, we both published a report and article high...
01 June 2021 /regulation /crypto Digital Asset Class (DAC)
The Fintech industry is driving a rapid transformation that even regulators are struggling to keep up with. In 2020, over 20,000 new Fintech start-ups launched globally, with this number only set to rise each year. As company’s become more imaginative, financial services are becoming more streamlined and simplified. While increased competition is ...
01 June 2021 /payments /regulation Banking Regulations
Adriana P Trader at Xray Trade
Bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, regulations, governments, bans, unworthy, revolutionary, so many news articles on the topics, none with any real worldwide summary. Each country reacts differently to bitcoin and its technology. The blockchain here is a little résumé of what is currently happening when governments face bitcoin. The fearful ones: Turkey...
31 May 2021 /regulation /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
In the UK, about 55 million individuals and six million businesses have a bank account. Roughly 85% of these accounts are held at just four banks, and over 95% are held in the eight largest banks. Such is the depth of UK financial services, these eight banks are only the tip of the iceberg. The Bank of England’s most recent (May 2021) list shows 15...
26 May 2021 /payments /regulation
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