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Simon Luke

Simon Luke UK Country Manager at First AML

Why casinos are still failing to crack down on money laundering and how they can tackle it

Many of us have seen Ozark - where dirty money is directly cleaned through a casino - but just how much of this is based on truth? Historically casinos have been a target for money launderers. They are exposed to significant money laundering risks, including quick or high turnover of cash with minimal betting. Gaming accounts can also be used to s...

/crime Business

Vlad Goga

Vlad Goga Senior Consultant at Be Shaping the Future

Start-up funding: the key role of the finance department

A start-up’s journey can be a rocky one, made more complicated by the various rounds of external funding that are necessary for growth. Start-ups seek this funding from external investors to be able to fund their growth journey and it’s typically raised through a series of investment rounds from friends, family and business angels at the beginning...

/people /startups Fintech

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Why a slow uptake of Embedded Wealth is an FI problem, not a tech problem

If the confrontational posture of the title to this blog has you reading this opening sentence, then it can lay claim to having performed its job. However, it’s worth quickly explaining that it was only intended as a playful device to draw you towards a current sticking point within the broader wealth management industry: That financial institutio...

/wealth Embedded Finance

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

What is holding banks back from great sales and service?

In this tough economic climate, there’s no doubting that customers are looking for ways to minimise expenses wherever possible against the rising costs of living. Banks have a key role to play in supporting consumers and especially those most vulnerable who are struggling to afford basics such as rent, energy and food. People don’t forget poor se...

/payments Innovation in Financial Services

Helghardt Avenant

Helghardt Avenant CEO at Rehive

Innovation inclusion is a key building block to financial inclusion

In many ways, technology makes the world go round, not money. It is hard to imagine life without cars, planes, instant messaging, video streaming, and even social media. As we have seen in history, new inventions and technology are powerful growth multipliers for societies and set some apart from others. Times have changed and in the modern age of...

/retail /inclusion Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Jonathan Hancock

Jonathan Hancock Managing Consultant, Fraud at Accenture

‘Fighting Fraud: Breaking the Chain’

A review of The House of Lords Fraud Act 2006 and Digital Fraud Committee’s new report, ‘Fighting Fraud: Breaking the Chain’ “Fraud is the most commonly experienced crime in England and Wales today and represents a substantial national threat. If this were any other type of crime, this would be a matter of national importance.” Last week, on 12 N...

/regulation /crime Exposing Financial Crime

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Inflation and operating model optimisation

Rising inflation across the US, UK and the Eurozone is creating massive pressures across global markets. We’re seeing a reduction in the breadth of credit products, like mortgages, as they become more unaffordable, which leads to a reduction in volume and profitability as net interest margins are squeezed. Defaults are increasing – and will continu...

/markets Trends in Financial Services

Christopher Colley

Christopher Colley Industry-recognized CX leader at Financial Services

Three-step plan for Consumer Duty (and other customer-focused regulation)

As financial institutions worldwide battle the headwinds of tighter monetary policy and slowing economic growth, they are having to do so in an environment of increased regulatory scrutiny. Last month, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) laid out their requirements for the disclosure of financial products' exposure to fossil gas and nucle...

/regulation /retail Financial Services Regulation

Uldis Teraudkalns

Uldis Teraudkalns CEO at Nexpay

3 ways to maintain your perspective in crypto winter 3

Advocates of new technologies often like to think they exist outside the usual rules and trends of business. There are plenty of signposts for how this usually works out. The most famous is the “hype cycle” from tech high priests, Gartner. In the cycle, a new tech emerges, sounds exciting and gets hyped out of sight until it reaches “the peak of ...

/crypto /markets

Konstantin Rabin

Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik

What's the impact of the FTX collapse on the crypto trading industry?

If you were told that a $32 billion company can collapse in a matter of hours, you will most likely have a question, how? That's what everyone has been thinking about ever since FTX, the world's second-largest crypto exchange, announced bankruptcy, with its founder and CEO stepping down from his position, following this huge controversy. Not every...

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