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Following up on my 2nd quarter foreign direct investment review, we’ll pick it up in Ireland which set out a new FDI screening rule similar to that of the UK. The Screening of Third Country Transacti...
Last week, the banking community gathered in person again for SIBOS, the largest global financial services networking event organised by SWIFT. Many sessions focused on reducing friction in payments. ...
As COVID hit businesses around the world, and shops were either closed or no longer accepting cash as the preferred method of payment, we saw a dramatic increase in payment card data volume. Fast-forw...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) Marketing Rule was approved in December 2020 and came into effect on May 4, 2021. From that point, Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs) have had...
The European Banking Authority’s (EBA) final regulatory products with respect to the Investment Firms Directive (IFD) published on 21 July 2022 are expected to harmonise the supervisory practices rega...
Sweeping regulatory changes are happening worldwide in risk management. With the imperative to standardize finance for the stability of the global economy – crucial in the wake of COVID-19 and growing...
On 26th July 2022, the FCA ended its consultation on whether its guidance on how banks close branch and ATMs services should be changed. This consultation was significant because it acknowledged curr...
Being that the UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 tournament is underway and Wimbledon has come to a close, I’ll devote this foreign direct investment roundup to the region. Plus, there have been quite a few ann...
According to an FCA survey, in 2020, 81% of UK adults had used a form of regulated credit within the last 12 months. As consumers move away from traditional, regulated forms of credit (like credit ca...
On seeing what looked like a factual internet reporting on Jeremy Clarkson on Day Time TV making money investing in a company using algorithms, a colleague and I agreed to go 50/50 on the €250 initial...
A new framework was recently put forward by the National Society of Compliance Professionals (NSCP), as it seeks to better define its members' personal liability in a firm’s regulatory mishaps. It app...
We finally got the Australian Government’s response to its Treasury’s evaluation of the 2021 foreign investment reforms and on 1 April the first part of these reforms went into force. This first part ...