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The UK has announced that it will apply anti-money laundering (AML) rules to digital currencies in a bid to both encourage and regulate their usage. The government plans to launch a new £10 million re...
Introduction Internal data models could face greater scrutiny from regulators as they become more familiar with trade reporting regimes and managing the increase of data now held inside trade reposito...
Banks, buysides and corporates are all squaring up to the demands of KYC. One thing they all have in common is the tussle between gathering accurate information and trade execution. Whether it’s creat...
A Hacker in Business School As the Java style capitalisation in 'CryptoSecurities' suggests, I was a proper nerd before I took a left turn into a top business school and later became a financial servi...
The big guns – Apple, Samsung and Google – are dominating the mobile payments news cycle now that their respective ‘Pay’ platforms threaten to disintermediate the world’s banks. They won’t have it all...
The objective of this 3 part series is to examine in brief the barriers and motivators for the key players in a Journey towards a cashless society. In part 1 the role of retailer in this journey was s...
Yesterday saw the publication of ESMA’s long-awaited report on the technical standards for MiFID II / MiFIR. As well as reviewing every single word of this impressive tome – 1,532 pages spread across...
In the last of our four-part series on putting the consumer at the heart of consumer banking, Dan Jones takes a different perspective. So far, the focus has been on ways existing banks can adapt to su...
The emergence of challenger banks has been a recurring theme in recent years. The changing environment has bred a wave of so-called “fintech” start-ups; some seeking to disrupt established banking bu...
The financial services industry has suffered consecutive blows in recent years. The global banking crisis, new regulations, empowered customers calling the shots, not to mention a new breed of digital...
One nifty feature now separates Samsung from the competition in the mobile payments realm! Samsung Now Rivals Android Pay as the Top-Ranking Mobile Payment Solution Google’s Android Pay solution has b...
An old journalist buddy of mine once confessed to me that he only had three basic story outlines; and for each article he wrote he simply had to pick the most appropriate one and modify to suit. As I ...