Alan McIntyre Transaction Reporting SME at Strait Downstream Ltd
As we slowly emerge from our socially distanced bubbles and contemplate the view beyond our own back garden towards the wider world again, we thought to cast our eyes stateside. More specifically, towards the North American regulatory reporting landscape. So why is that piquing our interest in particular? Well, pre-lockdown, quite a lot happened to...
22 July 2020 /regulation /markets
Retired Member
Retailers have been wrestling for months with the effects of COVID-19 — scattered workforces required to work from home, closed brick-and-mortar stores, dramatic spikes in online sales. And now, as they begin to reopen their physical stores, they are faced with another major disruption — the need to be ready for full enforcement of PSD2 and its st...
20 July 2020 /payments /regulation Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Vladimir Ershov Head of Data Science & Machine Learning at Clausematch
Last week, the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics took place online. Most of the discussion was dedicated to AI and linguistics, with round tables based around cognitive and computational building blocks for creating more natural and human-like language in machines. Events like this are a valuable source of unique...
17 July 2020 /regulation /devops Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Hugh Cumberland Director - UK & EMEA at txtsmarter
The advent of the telephone nearly 150 years ago, followed by the rapid creation of local, national and then international telephone networks, put an end to the use of the telegraph in trading of financial products fairly swiftly. But it was not long before traders grew frustrated with exchange- based telephone services – due to unanswered calls a...
16 July 2020 /regulation /covid-19
Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd
Regulatory distribution is systemically broken The conventional way governments distribute rules for use by citizens, businesses, other private actors and for the institutions of government is through documents and other forms of content. As highlighted in an earlier paper “The Dangerous Risk of Interactions with Regulation”[i], the use of docume...
16 July 2020 /regulation /cloud Fintech innovation and startups
Nikhita Hyett Managing Director - Europe at BlueSnap
The retail and ecommerce industry has already seen a number of significant unexpected events to contend with in 2020. The effects from the unplanned outage caused by Wirecard’s issues can be added to a growing list of unwelcome surprises this year, which have put huge pressure on retailers from both a financial and a technical perspective. For any...
16 July 2020 /payments /regulation
Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com
It’s July, so naturally, things are starting to heat up here in the northeastern part of the US. Taking a look back at the first half of the year, regulatory organizations were also heating up. I’ve previously written about the need for automation to support global shareholding disclosure obligations due to changes in short position reporting, and...
14 July 2020 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
Adam Bialy Chief Product Officer at OpenPayd
COVID-19 has accelerated digital transformation across the financial services industry in a way that it was not wholly prepared for. It has placed fintechs much further ahead in the race to adapt and deliver new business models and revenue streams, especially for those who have already leveraged the potential of Open Banking. But while traditional...
09 July 2020 /regulation /retail Open Banking
The Asset Servicing (AS) industry is an essential but often overlooked component of global financial markets. Yet, while transfer agents and fund administrators are critical to the smooth running of middle- and back-office operations for many Asset Management firms, the sector is at a ‘change or die’ crossroads in its evolution. The current state ...
08 July 2020 /regulation /covid-19 Innovation in Financial Services
Since the implementation Mifid1 in 2007, there has been a lot of talk about a pan-European consolidated tape, whether it would benefit the market, how it might operate and why it has not come about without regulatory pressure. Post 2007 when stocks when allowed to trade on multiple exchanges, market participants who wanted to see the full history a...
07 July 2020 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
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