4462 Results from /regulation
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Most international payments providers exist as an alternative to high street banks. They provide their customers with a good deal, are transparent about their fees, deliver excellent customer service, and transfer money quickly, without hassle. Despite this, the wider international payments industry has been tarnished by allegations of profiteering...
02 June 2017 /payments /regulation Financial Services Regulation
Many enterprise electronic communications (eComms) applications offer an attractive proposition to businesses by delivering lower costs, more features and access to newer desktop apps. But while they might be extremely effective business tools, often they don’t provide the functionality required to meet the compliance and eDiscovery needs for orga...
02 June 2017 /security /regulation Financial Services Regulation
Fiona McLoughlin VP Marketing at Fenergo
What an exciting time to work in RegTech. Up to a few years ago, many banks were mired in the depths of the financial crisis, trying to contend with regulation after regulation coming towards them at lightening speeds. I read a scary stat recently which claims that the volume of regulatory change has increased by a staggering 492% from 2008 to 2...
31 May 2017 /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
Stuart Lacey Founder at Trunomi
In less than 1 year the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be enforced. If you haven’t heard by now; the GDPR will fundamentally change the way that companies capture, manage and store information of EU Citizens. The primary aim of the regulation is to protect EU Citizen’s right to privacy, give them back control over their personal da...
30 May 2017 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
Supply chain failures compromise the ability of an organisation to operate effectively and in extreme circumstances even to survive. Yet many businesses struggle to mitigate the risk of such failures due to poor vendor risk management: research from CIPS suggests fewer than half of procurement professionals consistently put strategies in place to ...
30 May 2017 /regulation Financial Risk Management
Japan’s FSA (Financial Services Agency) is looking to implement tighter regulations on High Frequency Trading (HFT) as soon as 2018. Reuters states that “The growing presence of HFT on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) has raised concerns high-speed trading could destabilise markets and leave retail investors at a disadvantage.“* This is an interesti...
22 May 2017 /regulation Fintech
Stacey Small Business Development at The Glue
The PSD2 deadline is just seven months away, and we all know just how quickly time flies. Market feedback suggests that many financial institutions are still in the ‘reflection’ phase. So far, this year we have seen the EBA (European Banking Authority) publish the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) and com...
19 May 2017 /regulation EBAday
For MiFID II to work, the industry must have a clear understanding of what constitutes a single instrument. For cash products such as equity or debt this is straightforward, but in derivatives the concept of a single instrument isn’t really appropriate and things quickly get complicated. Looking ahead, it’s feasible that an OTF or SI offers tradin...
18 May 2017 /regulation
Major changes have occurred within the asset management industry since 2008. Regulatory change and lower profits have forced asset managers to take a closer look at their operational efficiency. However, they have also resulted in asset managers leveraging a wider range of products in search of alpha. Trying to grow client and product base, while ...
17 May 2017 /regulation
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
Some experts are debating whether the complexity of the listed U.S. options market structure is hurting liquidity providers and driving some market makers out of the business. Options market makers are navigating a fragmented liquidity landscape, rising technology costs, and an arms race around high speed trading. Some electronic market makers, lik...
16 May 2017 /regulation
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