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RegTech alone will not save the banking industry. It must embrace digital and work out the supply chain disruption that #FinTech has created. However with profit margins continuing to shrink, regulat...
On December 1, 2016 the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) released its Mutual Evaluation Report of the US Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF) Measures. While the report ...
Data Privacy regulations increase challenges for bank KYC and AML programs Financial services organizations are under increasing pressure from regulators to focus on KYC and client due diligence. Thi...
The Bank of England (BoE) has recently published a consultation paper on reforming the Sterling Overnight Index Average (SONIA) benchmark. It had conducted a similar exercise, albeit exploratory, as a...
The CFTC announced on October 31st, 2016 that they issued Orders of Registration to the following Foreign Boards of Trade (FBOT): Eurex CME Europe Limited ICE Futures Europe The London Metal Exch...
Last week I joined attendees at CtrlShift’s Personal Information Economy event, where Elizabeth Denham, the UK’s new Information Commissioner, gave her inaugural speech. Denham’s overriding message i...
Last year SIBOS was an inflection point for transaction bankers and FinTech, but this year in Geneva we saw a very measured response to key Industry challenges faced across the globe, starting from Cy...
Coping with the rapid pace at which new Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations are enacted poses quite a challenge to enterprises worldwide. If you take the case of financial institutions, this entai...
“…necessary to include a power for the relevant competent authority to require mandatory contributions from supervised entities to critical benchmarks in order to preserve the credibility of the bench...
Regulators' increased focus on consumer transactions has pushed compliance and risk management to the heart of the financial sector, and many organisations are struggling under the administrative burd...
Intelligence – artificial or real – is only as good as the information it uses. Location intelligence helps contextualize a situation and can augment machine learning and other applications of artific...
Financial institutions are increasingly leveraging shared services, from enabling Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance to post-trade reference data management, in order to reduce both cost and complia...