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Investors put in over €35 mn (disclosed amounts only) into these FinTech startups in the last three years. However, this is really just a starting point: as per an Oct. 2012 study by London New Finan...
RBS transaction reporting fine emphasises that FCA expects firms to get it right: The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced that it has fined the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) £5,620,300 for ...
Banks are under intense regulatory pressure to improve their services and mitigate financial risk while providing more lending to businesses and consumers that’s critical for a return to growth in man...
Nobody knows the future of mobile payments. At a couple of recent conferences, we've noticed that straw polls of delegates revealed they were roughly split between those who thought that phone paymen...
So - not the most original title, but I did promise a follow-up to my recent blog post: "Big Data and Payments Drive Loyalty in Consumer Banking" In the 'consumer edition' of the blog I sug...
Many countries in Asia have been traditionally cash and brick focused: customers have been used to holding and using physical cash and visiting the brick and mortar branches. That’s changing rapidly a...
Release from the FCA on how it intends to deliver on its responsibilities, will be very interesting to see how much of this is reiterated in the Regulation and Rebuilding Trust plenary session at Sibo...
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published an interim report exploring some early findings of a review into mobile banking services, setting out the possible risks to consumers and area...
Last month, global consulting firm KPMG said the banking crisis in the UK was pretty much over. But, even as they issued this good news, KPMG clawed it back with a warning about the next crisis. Havi...
I don’t venture to the north of England often, but I do have a work colleague who hails from Yorkshire – the origin of the phrase “where there’s muck there’s brass”. Its basic meaning is that there is...
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published a working paper, with the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), on cyber-crime, securities markets and systemic risk. The rep...
Basel III regulations will change the way bank address, manage risk and finance. The new emphasis on risk management that is inherent in it requires the introduction/evolution of a risk management fra...