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GRC Outlook: Q1 2023 - a look back at all the key UK regulatory updates

Introduction We bid farewell to 2022 with a Christmas present from the Chancellor where he announced and reinforced a spate of new and on-going initiatives for the financial services sector. Continuing with the momentum, the first quarter of the 2023 has been buzzing with regulatory updates around Conduct, Digital Payments, Re-alignment of EU re...

/regulation /markets Banking Regulations

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Bricking it - the truth about Consumer Duty and wealth management

In the middle of the great financial crisis I remember listening to Bill Mott, one of the leading fund managers at the time, discussing the challenging task central banks had ahead of them. He called it the “biggest financial experiment in history” and related the challenge to pulling a brick with a piece of elastic. There is some effort required...

/regulation /wealth Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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Fraud trends in 2023

As merchants gear up to maximise ecommerce sales in 2023, the never-ending fight against fraud means there’s no room for complacency. Valiant efforts to detect fraud will come to nothing if merchants don’t have the right tools to fight it. The speed with which fraud is mutating to evade detection is frightening. Even with innovations such as Stro...

/security /crime E-commerce

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Earning a Slice of the Pie: How Employees Can Navigate their Equity Value

Equity value is more than just a buzzword; it’s a critical component in every employee’s financial journey. While it is seemingly standard for every member of an organization’s workforce to know a thing or two about their equity value and exercising stock options, the complex roadmap, and the broken system often hinder them from navigating what th...

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Into the Matrix - AI to rescue banks?

AI is skyrocketing (again) while the panic is all around in the Financial Services Industry God knows what the next economic storm is going to be; along with the rise of digital banking, and the increasing complexity of financial transactions, the banks are struggling to keep up with the pace so it won’t go belly up. The question in thought lea

/regulation /predictions Analytics in Banking

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Make EV adoption easier by offering auto finance first

Auto finance is doing bigger business than ever. But in the drive to convert the world to electric vehicles (EVs), there’s huge potential to go further – by embedding finance as the first stop on the car-buying journey. In the U.K. almost all new cars – around 92% – are bought on finance, with auto finance debt increasing by £29 billion since 2009....

/markets /predictions Banking and Lending Solutions

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Consumer Duty: Five questions to test your organisation’s preparedness

As the first quarter of 2023 draws to a close, Financial Services Institutions (FSIs) are one step closer to needing to demonstrate compliance with the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Consumer Duty. Coming into force for most FSIs on 31 July 2023 (or 30 April for manufacturers and investment businesses that produce, issue, design or build fina...

/regulation /retail Financial Services Regulation

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NFT Marketplace Development: Challenges and Solutions!

The NFT market has seen humongous growth in the last few months as people have realized the true potential of these tokens apart from their speculatory nature. Entrepreneurs have started seriously considering operating the NFT marketplace as a business. While the model provides a lot of benefits to such entrepreneurs, there are also challenges tha...

/crypto Crypto, DeFi & NFT Updates

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Towards Purpose led Experiences — A Critical Role of Digital Accessibility in BFSI Sector

It’s like any other day for John. He is sitting in his living room, sipping that morning coffee, when his phone announces a notification “you’ve a new email from Kiti Bank”. Curiously, he asks the voice assistance to read the email for him. It’s his monthly statement in a pdf format, which is how nearly all the banks share the statements. However

/retail /sustainable Marketing in Financial Services

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Hyper-personalization: A Holy Grail to Success in Wealth Management

The changing contours of the wealth management industry The wealth management industry is in the middle of a transformation. Contributing factors include the ever-growing expectations of a new generation of investors, a continuous influx of innovative products and a number of new and disruptive technologies. Additionally, increased regulatory thr...

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