211 Results from 2021, /regulation
Prasoon Mukherjee Director | Head of Securities Services | GSC-India at Societe Generale Bank
Its not uncommon in the world of finance for accountants to encounter challenges related to an evolving discipline for which no accounting standard would have explicitly existed earlier. One example is in the manner how the world of tokens or cryptocurrencies is evolving as no accounting standard currently exists to explain how this asset class sh...
25 December 2021 /regulation /crypto Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Retired Member
“Only Fools will believe something that's not available in hand as currency” most of the people’s mindset about the cryptos currency until 2014, but right after Bitcoin showed the world what is the real potential, here started the evolution of such cryptocurrency, Many new coins launched and the finest technology or innovation of the crypto era be...
23 December 2021 /regulation /crypto Blockchain Observations
Dexter Penn CEO at Kalgera
As Christmas Day fast approaches, many of us will be frantically last-minute shopping to ensure a Christmas to remember, not least after last year’s lockdown Christmas. Typically, UK households spend around £740 more than normal during the month of December, according to the Bank of England. While this is good news for the economy, it’s not so goo...
22 December 2021 /regulation /crime Financial Inclusion
Robert Prigge CEO at Jumio
According to UK Finance, there was an 84% surge in “impersonation scams” at the start of the pandemic as fraudsters looked for ways to capitalise on COVID-19. With our financial lives now heavily online, accelerated by the pandemic and 100 bank branches shutting every month across the UK, financial organisations are under increased pressure to ke...
21 December 2021 /regulation /identity Information Security
Gabriel Hopkins Chief Product Officer at Ripjar
With the constant barrage of news related to Covid-19, it is sometimes easy to forget about the complex geo-political world we live in and the difficult and seemingly intractable problems that fill it. One reminder of those complex problems came in late November with the inclusion of Turkey on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) greylist along...
15 December 2021 /regulation /crime RegTech
Barley Laing UK Managing Director at Melissa
Address verification is often viewed simply as a practice that improves the accuracy of direct mail. However, it offers much more than that to the financial services industry that’s facing a number of challenges in 2022. Improve the customer experience and reduce cost with communications The financial services industry is a major user of direct mai...
14 December 2021 /regulation /identity Digital Identity Management
Uldis Teraudkalns CEO at Nexpay
Thirteen years ago, an anonymous person or entity named Satoshi Nakamoto published the iconic Bitcoin whitepaper. The whitepaper, which comprised only nine pages, contained enough to change the world, and crypto currencies have since moved from an obscure curiosity to the mainstream. The total market value of all the crypto assets surpassed $2 tri...
13 December 2021 /regulation /crypto
Donal Gallagher President - Quaternion Expert Services at Acadia
For the global finance industry, changes in the business environment have created tremendous opportunities and unique challenges. The advent and broad adoption of cloud computing technology has allowed for data to be captured more easily than in the past. And the rapid increase in computing power combined with the reduction in cost has made proces...
10 December 2021 /regulation
Torben Sauer Chief Executive Officer at Conpend
Trade finance supports the movement of goods around the world. It is underpinned by a parallel exchange and review of documents, from letters of credit to bills of lading. While some parts of the supply chain have embraced digitalisation, many stakeholders remain reliant on paper-based documentation. A recent International Chamber of Commerce (IC...
30 November 2021 /regulation /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Yahya Mohamed Mao Head of Business Development & Marketing at Swiss GRC
Since the early 2000s, several industry and government agencies have expanded their compliance rules that address companies’ risk management plans, policies, and procedures. Image: What to Know: Supply-Chain Risk Management & Geopolitical Risk Compliance officers are almost always under pressure from senior stakeholders to communicate as accu...
28 November 2021 /regulation Operational Risk Management
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