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Freddie McMahon

Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd

Digitised ESG enables broader and transparent corporate governance

Environment, Social and Governance metrics are here to stay. The ESG investment market has surpassed USD 30 trillion. Governance needs better ways to measure corporate behaviour. ESG metrics measure corporate behaviour and sustainability. ESG metrics is a shift from intangibles to tangibles. Achieve holistic governance using ESG and fina...

/regulation /markets Trends in Financial Services

Stefan Pajkovic

Stefan Pajkovic CEO at TradeCore

How fintechs can avoid a spiral of death in the age of COVID-19

On average it takes at least 2 to 3 years for a fintech company to transition from an initial proposition to being market ready, often at the cost of millions of pounds. In the current COVID environment, where it’s more difficult to develop products and prove profitability to investors, many industry commentators are warning of a ‘fintech spiral ...

/regulation Fintech

Andrew Beatty

Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS

Banking as a Service: Competition Meets Collaboration in the Age of Value Networks

There was a time when banks knew who their competitors were. For the most part they were other banks and financial services providers. Pretty simple. But with technology taking center stage, fintechs seem well positioned to move even further into the banking space. But are they really? As Hugues Delcourt, Chairman of KNEIP and former CEO of Banque...

/regulation /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Joris Lochy

Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever

How too much compliance might actually increase the risk of financial service companies?

Following the financial crisis, bank control authorities (like the FCA in the UK or the FSMA in Belgium) and compliance departments within banks have grown exponentially. As a result, regulatory costs have also increased dramatically relative to banks’ earnings. At first sight, this seems indeed the correct reaction, to better control and monitor ...

/regulation Banking Regulations

Ivy Schmerken

Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems

CAT Compliance Ramps Up on Sell Side with Interfirm Linkages

No one could have predicted that Wall Street’s top compliance project would go into production during a pandemic. The securities industry is submitting data to the Consolidated Audit Trail, a long-delayed database for tracking the lifecycle of orders and transactions for U.S. listed and over-the counter equites and options in one place. Even thou...

/regulation /markets Big Data

Adam Krug

Adam Krug CLM Ambassador at Pegasystems

How a Unified Case Management System Can Improve AML Practices

How a Unified Case Management System Can Improve AML Practices In September this year, the ‘FinCEN Files’ – thousands of documents detailing $2 trillion (£1.55tn) of potentially corrupt transactions that were overlooked by the US financial system – were leaked. The data revealed how some of the world's biggest banks have permitted criminals to ...

/regulation /crime

Stephan Wolf

Stephan Wolf Advisory Board Member at The Open Working Group

The Embedded Benefits in ESEF Digital Financial Reporting

In a battle for significance, no other public facing business document can match the annual financial report. It is the document that a public corporation must, by law, publish to describe its operations and financial condition, and to chronicle its activities over the past twelve months. Shareholders, investors and the wider financial ecosystem m...

/regulation /identity

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Retired Member 

The EC’s Digital Finance Package: a step in the right direction for global blockchain adoption

Regulation – if developed appropriately – can be the catalyst that propels nascent technologies into the mainstream, especially in the complex world of financial services. And the European Commission (EC) has just confirmed its place at the forefront of fostering fintech innovation, writes Isabelle Corbett, Head of Regulatory Affairs at R3. Last...

/regulation /crypto

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Managing Information Barriers in the Era of Remote Working

Information barriers have always been a challenge for organisations to manage, monitor and control. As a result, many firm have historically banned home working and previously only enabled access to files, folders, and other information on-site. Along comes the Covid-19 pandemic, and suddenly all rules needed to be readministered to facilitate the...

/regulation

Adam Holden

Adam Holden Chief Executive Officer at NorthRow

7 Barriers to Delivering Efficient KYC Remediation

Due to time, cost and loss of productivity required to deliver a KYC remediation project, many firms delay activity or avoid the challenge altogether until the regulator comes to call. However, with the current market volatility and increasing levels of financial crime, sitting on a back-book of inaccurate or out-dated client data will expose your...

/regulation Financial Risk Management

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