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John Bertrand

Future of Payment Review UK – six months on

Joe Garner’s Future of Payment review published in 2023 on behalf of the UK Government reflected the complexity of the current instant payment UK environment. The situation has allowed the UK’s early ...

10 Apr 2024
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Harriet Christie

Whatsapp Compliance, Self-Reporting, and Ripping off the Bandaid

The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) is trying to instigate deep cultural change around compliance following a high-profile crackdown on ‘off-channel’ communications. Many firms find themselves i...

09 Apr 2024
RegTech
Anuj Goel

Financial cyber defence: gearing up for DORA

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a new European regulation designed to fortify the cybersecurity landscape and ensure financial firms can effectively manage digital risks. Coming into ...

04 Apr 2024
Regulatory Reporting
Raj Bakhru

Buy vs. Build: How to make informed decisions as you invest in AI

Generative AI: Navigating the Landscape In today's dynamic financial services market, generative AI stands at the forefront of technological advancement and innovation, offering unprecedented opportu...

28 Mar 2024
Alternative Investments
Dmitri Gmyza

Understanding Smart Contracts: a practical guide

There have been a lot of inventions over the course of history that revolutionised the way people handle their business processes. From clay tablets in Mesopotamia as early as 9000 BCE to paper in Chi...

22 Mar 2024
Law and Finance
Nick Green

Financial crime prevention: Credit provider's cutting-edge approaches

Credit providers understand the critical challenge with the rise of complex financial crimes, from cyber theft to money laundering. Criminals are using advanced technologies—the same ones that make di...

19 Mar 2024
Banking
Chris Brown

What Fund Management Boards Need to Know about Cybersecurity

Fund management executives and board directors play a crucial role in helping asset management firms navigate cybersecurity. As the financial, operational and reputational costs of cyber risk continue...

18 Mar 2024
Information Security
Richard White

What benefits could ISO 20022 bring to trade finance?

A continued push for digitisation, transparency and automation in trade finance prompts the question about the impact a migration of Swift messaging from MT to an ISO 20022 standard (MX) would have on...

18 Mar 2024
Innovation in Financial Services
Richard Bennett

Exploring the Global Impact of the 2023 US Banking Crisis

It is around a year since Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic failed, and while its effects were by no means as far reaching as those in the global financial crisis over 15 years a...

18 Mar 2024
Financial Risk Management
Joris Lochy

Safeguarding Finance: The Crucial Role of Sanction Screening

Financial crime continues to be a major issue, undermining the trust and safety of global financial systems. The United Nations estimates that a staggering 2 to 5% of global GDP, or between EUR 715 bi...

18 Mar 2024
Banking Regulations
John Bertrand

By delaying instant payments, if suspicious, be effective?

At UK first Global Fraud Summit, HM Treasury plans to introduce legislation, only to apply to suspicious Authorised Push Payments executed within the UK in sterling. The proposed statutory instrument ...

15 Mar 2024
Innovation in Financial Services
Steve Morgan

How is the EU AI Act Going to Affect Banks’ AI Adoption Ambitions?

As we steam ahead into 2024, while banks experiment with generative AI, they also need to be aware of how regulators will scrutinise how they use AI. Of specific concern is how the impact of the EU’s ...

15 Mar 2024
Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

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