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FinCEN Final Rule: Redefining Client Due Diligence Requirements

Coming into force on May 11th, 2018, FinCEN’s Final Customer Due Diligence (CDD) Rule (i.e. FinCEN Final Rule (CDD)) will bring in sweeping new changes to how financial institutions collect, maintain ...

20 Oct 2017
Financial Services Regulation
Duena Blomstrom

NatWest - our Love Hate Relationship

Regulation – one of the most heated (and arguably “hated”) words in banking. While it’s there to protect our collective money, it’s also the scape goat for all the things we failed the consumer with. ...

20 Oct 2017
Freddie McMahon

GARTNER RESEARCH EARLY STAGE ENTERPRISE CHATBOT INSIGHTS THE REVOLUTION OF CONVERSATIONS

Gartner Group have recently identified the following four emergent trends for using Chatbots in the Enterprise: 1. Call Center Help Desk: Chatbots are reducing the cost of customer queries by handlin...

20 Oct 2017
Fintech innovation and startups
Darren Thomas

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: MiFID II’s Buy-Side Sell-Side Standoff

Investment managers and brokers both lose unless they resolve differences by the MiFID II deadline Repapering of terms under MiFID II is potentially a massive problem for the buy-side. This issue is ...

19 Oct 2017
MiFID
Carlo R.W. De Meijer

R3CEV Corda Platform: the blockchain app store

In May this year, fintech start-up R3 raised $107 million from a consortium of the world’s top banks. The New York-based blockchain company that works in collaboration with more than 90 banks and othe...

19 Oct 2017
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Data Breaches: The Definition of Insanity

Sadly, it’s not hyperbole to say that literally every week we hear of a new data breach. In September, we learned that Equifax, one of the United States’ three major credit reporting agencies, fell p...

18 Oct 2017
Crystal Berry

Using Data Standardization Technology as a Competitive Advantage

Data is a key resource – if not the resource – that powers modern business. Yet, unless it is in a homogenized package, its benefits are limited, thus limiting what industries – especially the account...

18 Oct 2017
Digital Banking Trends
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Digital Transformation Adaption or Extinction

Charles Darwin’s research showed it isn’t the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, it is the one that is the most adaptable to change. This sentiment may have come to ligh...

18 Oct 2017
Trends in Financial Services
Paul Irvine

Why should Financial Services organisations automate their threat intelligence

It can often feel like cybercriminals are two steps ahead. The result is that security professionals are constantly creating and updating their security protocols to match the volume of equally sophis...

18 Oct 2017
Information Security
Breana Patel

AML BSA compliance : Revised CDD rule

Background 11.5 million documents, a staggering number, were leaked from Panamanian law firm ‘Mossack Fonseca’ in 2015. The contents of these documents, mostly financial information about wealthy indi...

17 Oct 2017
Financial Services Regulation
Molly Yakubian

MiFID II: what do the new developments in RIA Record-Keeping Obligations mean for the industry?

There has been a lot of chatter in the industry related to the impacts of the EU’s Marketing in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) on investment managers around the globe which are expected to...

17 Oct 2017
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Who makes the decisions around here?

Recording the execution decision maker is a new requirement under MiFID II. Working out how to populate that field turns out to be trickier than expected. Take a buy-side that gives strict execution i...

17 Oct 2017
MiFID

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