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Remote or hybrid working is the new norm, but it can be a bit of a nightmare for compliance officers. As the UK emerges from lockdown many businesses are going back to work. However, this is not a c...
As Google Trends suggests, there was a surge of interest in investing in cryptocurrency at the end of April. Search statistics indicate that more and more people are willing to try and start earning w...
Data protection is one of the fastest growing regulatory fields in the compliance world. With countries across the World strengthening their existing regimes. Europe’s General Data Protection Regulati...
Big, traditional banks are not perceived to be at the forefront of innovation, but they get there eventually. Incremental change, however, is unlikely to be a winning strategy in the uncertain new pla...
Disruption is continuing to play out in financial services. In fact, 2020 was the year when the market capitalization of the top four payment companies, including PayPal and Square, eclipsed the mark...
In the finance world, everything’s gone digital. If you’re still trying to verify customers’ identity by asking where they lived ten years ago, or making them jump through manual hoops like sending sm...
Depite the long road to recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic pockets of hope emerge. Many organisations across the world, including banks were surprised at how fast they were able to adapt and move to ...
A €3 million fine is the latest in a number of anti-money laundering fines for ING, but what can they and the rest of the sector learn? At the beginning of March, ING was fined €3 Million for fail
Regardless of your beliefs on the extent of climate change and global warming, we can safely assume all of us want a healthier and cleaner planet to live in. For some reading this, it can be difficul
The ship has sailed. Remote working will remain, post-Covid, even in wealth and asset management. The debate now centres around the balance between remote and office working, and the long term effects...
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are becoming more and more prominent in the crypto market recently. They began as a very niche phenomenon revolving around crypto artists yet now are on the verge of transfo...
Remote working has changed our working model and while most people will welcome it, firms must ensure they have identified all regulatory risks. Lockdown has changed the world of work as we know it. A...