Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre. Please read our Privacy Policy.
Few industries have faced sterner criticism over culture and conduct than financial services. Unfortunately, the growing regulatory burden means this challenge is more complex than ever. The Libor sca...
Despite the fact that tens of millions of consumers were hit by the numerous big breaches, and tens of millions more by less sensationalized breaches, you can still take the reins and yield some prote...
After many years of anticipation, October heralds the arrival of a T+2 settlement regime in Europe. Nearly all European markets (with the exception of Spain which will move at a later date) will b...
When Level 1 of the Market Abuse Directive (MAD) II was discussed two years ago there was talk of ESMA potentially establishing a massive centralised database for cross-market monitoring, aka the sur...
Implementation deadlines have been and gone but banks are still living in Dodd-Frank’s shadow. One of the issues is that best practice hasn’t yet been agreed: the regulators still need to clarify stan...
Today most companies understand that having their branded mobile app in a consumer’s smart phone is the closest connection they have ever had with their customers. With time spent on mobile devices ri...
The practice of individuals or teams of outside specialists going into a company's premises to perform work there is widely used to reduce the costs of taxes, labour and transport. We are all familiar...
On the second day at World Retail Congress 2014, I was fortunate enough to moderate a panel discussion looking at what steps the industry is taking to ensure security across the variety of transaction...
The FCA has published updated information on reporting obligations (Annex IV Transparency Reporting) under the AIFMD. They have provided two documents, one for Full-Scope UK AIFMs and Small Authorised...
Introduction In the present world of disruptions, the rapid progress of the consumer technology is changing the human behavior more than ever before. Many pundits tend to stretch their imagination and...
Omnichannel and digital banking is such a massive initiative, how do credit union and bank executives get their head around it? There are so many parts, where do you start? Have you ever sat down to c...
20022 is a very powerful, rich, and flexible standard. We’ll hear about it a thousand times at Sibos this week. Here’s a little light relief from all that serious stuff. On the one hand it is possi...