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Barbara Matthews

Barbara Matthews

Founder & CEO at BCMstrategy, Inc.
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Bio Founder & CEO, BCMstrategy, Inc. which uses a patented, proprietary process to quantify policy risk and accurately anticipate policy decisions. Current coverage includes: FinTech regulation, Trade policy, and Brexit. Career History Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council; First US Treasury Attache to EU; Senior Counsel, House Financial Services Committee; first Regulatory Counsel at IIF. Ran KPMG's internal financial services policy (US) think tank. Expert: geopolitics, cross-border financial regulation.

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G20 Pivots Towards AI and the Digital Economy

02 Jul 2019

At last weekend's G20 summit, global leaders focused on the digital economy and artificial intelligence. Their policy priorities seek to accelerate the penetration of these technologies into the global economy. The implications for trade policy and multilateral policy are significant as discussed in the Atlantic Council post below (https://www.a...

Digital Asset Class (DAC)

Cryptocurrency Trading Platform Regulation Proposals

30 May 2019

The regulatory perimeter regarding crypto-assets continues to expand. The latest move comes from the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) which released for comment on 28 May 2019 suggested regulatory oversight standards to govern crypto-asset trading platforms (the “IOSCO CTP Proposals”). Many in the cryptocurrency secto...

Bigger than Technology

Automated Analysis and the AI Race

17 May 2019

This post is adapted from a March 2019 blog at www.bcmstrategy2.com. Artificial Intelligence (AI). Everyone either wants to use it or fret about robots running the world. Whether it’s the “fourth industrial revolution” under discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year or the “second machine age” popularized by MIT professors recent...

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Cryptocurrency Trading Platform Regulation Proposals

  Updates....after this was published, the Financial Stability Board released its report on cryptocurrency to the G20 (just before next week’s annual summit AND the Bundesbank President publicly warned about the monetary policy and financial stability issues raised by both cryptocurrencues and central bank digital currencies. The last 24 hours validate the policy trend projections provided in this blogpost.

31 May 2019 Reply Read article

The Past, Present and Future of Automated Predictive Technology

  Nice post!  I quoted it in my new blog post also on this platform. Looking forward to sharing views.

17 May 2019 Reply Read article

Data Lessons From the Shutdown Blues

  Excellent post. It is always tricky to work with data that contains idiosyncratic breaks in the time series. Another challenge is working with new data sets for which no historical precedent exists.

17 May 2019 Reply Read article

ePassports, the panacea for financial services’ digital identity verification pain?

  Banks have indeed become "de facto gatekeepers" for the financial system.  Your analysis has deep implications for FinTech companies seeking to provide services to those gatekeepers.  One key question is whether the third party vendors will end up regulated as if they were banks. In the United States, any updates to the OCC's third party vendor rules will be closely watched for signs of tacit sandbox initiatives and/or extensions of the regulatory perimeter. 

23 May 2017 Reply Read article