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Guernsey FSC consults on opt in AIFMD

The Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) has launched a consultation on an opt in Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) equivalent regime for Guernsey licensed fund managers and depositaries. The consultation is intended to facilitate the requirements of the AIFMD into the local regulatory regime thereby providing locally...

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Lyndsay  Po

Lyndsay Po Business Analyst at Misys

Banking in a Shipping Container

A branch in a box? What would you do if you had a used shipping container? Weird as it may sound it's actually on my wish list – and my hypothetical container will be converted into a fortified shelter in the event of a doomsday scenario (a story better told in a different forum). Some people have actually converted these containers into housing, ...

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Lee Britton

Lee Britton Commercial Director at Prepaid Financial Services (PFS)

Remittance system must evolve to match growing workforce

Payments home by overseas workers reached a staggering $534 billion (£358.7 billion) last year and look set to top $685 billion (£460.1 billion) by 2015, according to the World Bank. With such a vast amount of payments today being conducted across borders, there is a real need for more efficient ways to make payments. In Western Europe, despite a ...

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Hans Tesselaar

Hans Tesselaar Executive Director at BIAN

Changing payments landscape

The banking and payments landscape is changing at a great pace. Increasing consumer demand for quick and easy access to accounts has led to greater reliance on technology for banks and consequently innovations such as electronic invoicing, mobile payments and e-commerce are developing at breakneck speed. According to Juniper Research, the value o...

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ESMA publishes guidelines for AIFs

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published final guidelines on the reporting obligations for alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) under the AIFM Directive (AIFMD). The guidelines require AIFMs (which includes hedge funds, private equity and real estate funds) to report certain information to national supervisors on ...

Financial Services Regulation

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Eggs, milk and a loan please

When you've lived and worked in London your whole life you become accustomed to a certain level of convenience. You fall into a trap of thinking every high street in Britain is as similarly equipped as the Strand: a newsagent every 10 feet, a Tesco on every corner and all the banks sitting side-by-side. But anyone with a shred of common sense knows...

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Congrats you have almost reached Level 2

With the election of the European Parliament scheduled for May 2014, the Level 1 texts of MiFID II, MAD II and CSD Regulation are likely to be agreed before then. This means that next year will be all about drafting and agreeing the Level 2s for those laws. ESMA kicked things off at the end of last week, publishing the first discussion paper on the...

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EBA-the real game changer is harmonisation of Reg reporting

In a speech on the new role of the European Banking Authority (EBA) in the banking union the chairperson of the EBA emphasised that the real game changer is the new EBA Technical Standard on supervisory reporting approved in July. The standard will deliver a comprehensive set of supervisory data, which will enable the EBA to compare all EU institu...

Financial Services Regulation

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Should You Post Pictures of Children Online?

Most people give no thought whatsoever to posting pictures of their children online. They are proud of their kids, they love them…so why not show the world how wonderful they are so others can enjoy each milestone too? Plus, Grandma and Auntie live so far away, and they want to keep up with new pictures and videos. And as long as you set up all th...

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ESMA publishes its 2014 work programme

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its 2014 work programme which sets out ESMA’s main priorities and clarifies how they will be delivered. The work programme covers the Single Rulebook, ESMA's contribution to financial stability, financial consumer protection, convergence and ESMA's operational set up. This includes...

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