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As 2021 unfolds, the topic of tax is set to dominate headlines. Tax to recoup the costs of Covid, tax on large, high profit companies, and new areas of tax to generate revenue and influence changes in society, such as environmental social and governance (ESG). One tax that has gone live without much of a splash, though, is the new Spanish financia...
18 February 2021 /regulation /markets RegTech
Digitise processes across the client lifecycle for frictionless remediation As remediation gathers pace, wealth managers must further accelerate digitisation to avoid resource-intensive distractions that impact sales. By February 2020 wealth managers began realising that digitisation was a pre-requisite to thriving or even surviving the Covid-19 pa...
18 February 2021 /regulation /wealth Trends in Financial Services
RegTech is set to have a pivotal year in 2021. The pandemic has brought the advantages of using regtech very much to the fore. A particular example has been communication surveillance, given recent announcements from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on the subject of monitoring home workers as effectively as those in an office environment....
18 February 2021 /regulation /sustainable RegTech
After a year of facing a global pandemic, an economic downturn and the continuation of typical industry headwinds like new competitors, talent wars, and regulatory pressures, Insurers are more focused than ever on the need for digital transformation in the finance department. But today’s business cases have evolved well beyond the 2 year – or even...
17 February 2021 Financial Transformation
As companies undertake their digital transformation, the risks in terms of cybersecurity are constantly increasing. As cybersecurity can be a very technical field, one may wonder – how should reporting cyber metrics to the Board of Directors be handled? When it comes to implementing an company-wide cybersecurity strategy, security managers such as ...
17 February 2021 /security /regulation Information Security
Mobile operators in Asia, Europe and the US have now built their first fifth-generation (5G) networks and expect larger volumes of lower-cost 5G smartphones to become available this year. The only thing left for them to do is to convince more subscribers that 5G services are worth the upgrade from their existing 4G packages. That could pose someth...
17 February 2021 /markets /predictions 5G Payments Schemes and Strategies 2020 - 2035
Ethereum is similar to Bitcoin in the sense that they are both cryptocurrencies - non-centrally issued, digital currencies. Another similarity between the two is that the both operate using the proof-of-work consensus. This means that for both Ethereum and Bitcoin, the verification and confirmation of transactions requires a network-wide consensus...
16 February 2021
Indisputably, 2020 was a significant moment for payments. Economies were hit hard as the coronavirus pandemic reached almost every country in the world, having an impact on all aspects of daily life forcing businesses to close their doors and adjust to a new safe working environment. Unfortunately the original economy we all knew, will never retur...
13 February 2021 /payments
Operational resilience, the ability to protect critical operations and core business lines from any hazard, needs to be right at the top of the agenda across the financial services ecosystem. Its importance has been significantly reinforced by the year we have just had. The pandemic brought about massive disruption across the industry, affecting h...
12 February 2021 /regulation /covid-19 Fintech
For Americans who don't have a bank account or a credit card, shopping for a chair or a computer they need can quickly turn into an exercise in humiliation. The misconception of being unbanked can make it stressful to ask a sales associate who is guiding them around the store whether alternative options are available. Then come the application form...
11 February 2021 /payments /covid-19 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
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