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Catherine Warren

Catherine Warren Transformation Director at Encompass Corporation

How Will Digital Transformation Impact Corporate KYC?

Digital transformation projects will introduce more automation and digitization into compliance tasks when performing Know Your Customer (KYC) on new corporate customers, but are compliance teams ready for the switch? With so much at stake, including competition from hyper-automated FinTechs, enhancing financial crime compliance, including KYC pro...

/regulation /crime RegTech

Nish Kotecha

Nish Kotecha Co-Founder & Chairman at Finboot

Electronic Trade Documents Bill offers UK opportunity to be a tech leader

Six years after the Brexit referendum, the UK has recently presented the Electronic Trade Documents Bill. According to the press release “The Bill will make digital documentation legally recognised, reduce admin costs and make it easier for British firms to buy and sell internationally and processing times for electronic documents cut to 20 secon...

/regulation Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Harriet Christie

Harriet Christie Chief Operating Officer at Mirrorweb

RegTech: Three Increasingly Regulated Industries

Regulatory technology (RegTech) companies perform exactly the function you’d expect; they provide technology which is used by businesses to manage and enhance regulatory processes in order to achieve and prove compliance. It’s a sector which is now growing at a pace of 19.5 percent annually, and is expected to hit $21.73 billion by 2027, according...

/regulation /cloud RegTech

Luke Firmin

Luke Firmin 

Top challenges in complying with sanctions regulations

The sanctions environment has become a whole lot more challenging in recent months. It’s not just the war in Ukraine and the swingeing changes that have been made to sanctions regulations in light of the conflict. In the UK, the FCA has recently advertised its new reporting mechanism for sanctions breaches and deficiencies, as well as bolstering ...

/regulation /crime Banking Regulations

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Retired Member 

Accelerated Settlements - want to get ready for T1? Then it is already time to plan for T0

The journey of US Settlements has progressed significantly over the last couple of decades - from T+3 in 2008, to T+2 in 2017. It has received a further thrust with recent recommendation of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) for moving to T+1, by H1 2024. This is a logical continuation of accelerating settlements as...

/regulation /markets Banking Regulations

Gilbert Verdian

Gilbert Verdian Founder and CEO at Quant

A sound regulatory approach for digital assets

New rules, like the UK’s Financial Services and Markets Bill and the EU’s Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), should be welcomed, argues Quant’s Founder and CEO, Gilbert Verdian. Republished with the permission of Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence. Over the last five years, investment in cryptocurrency increased from $100 billion to a market cap...

/regulation /crypto Trends in Financial Services

Adam Lieberman

Adam Lieberman Chief AI Officer at Finastra

Why PySyft is the open-source hero technology the world needs

Data is the most valuable resource we have today when it comes to solving our greatest challenges. With the right data, and enough of it, there is no limit to the compelling use cases we can create. Imagine a world where we could stop financial crimes like money laundering, help reduce the number of deaths due to breast cancer, and more accurately...

/regulation /cloud Data sharing

Bob Lyddon

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

Card-acquiring market remedies for the UK: as usual, the PSR rolls over

On 6th October 2022 the PSR published its Final Decisions under reference PS22/2 on its ‘work’ on Card-acquiring market remedies, a major and multi-year programme on the costs for UK merchants of accepting payments by card, which primarily means cards branded to Visa and Mastercard. The PSR’s ‘remedies’ fall below the lowest expectations of what c...

/payments /regulation

Luke Firmin

Luke Firmin 

Sanctions and how they affect firms – the current state of play

Sanctions are a massively complex area. But all too often, financial institutions think sanctions adherence is fairly straightforward – it’s just checking a list to ensure an individual or company doesn’t appear on it, right? Wrong. Sanctions are far more multi-dimensional and nuanced than that. The UK implements a range of sanctions regimes throug...

/regulation /crime Banking Regulations

Steve Pomfret

Steve Pomfret CEO at Cygnetise

Evolution of digital document execution in financial services

Financial services companies are at the forefront of recognising the benefits of digital document execution. Ensuring regulatory compliance and optimising efficiency means they require far more than just e-signature platforms though The Covid-19 pandemic put rocket fuel on the shift to electronic document execution. Since then, recognition of the b...

/regulation Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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