07 Sep 2023
"War is too serious to keep it between the hands of military generals." These were the profound words spoken by Georges Clemenceau, also known as "The Tiger," former head of the French government. Interestingly, these words can be extrapolated to the world of digital projects within the financial sector, suggesting that such pr...
25 Jun 2020
SRD II won’t be postponed! The verdict came from the European Commission earlier this month! Despite the joint letter sent by several post-trade groups and the call to postpone the deadline of SRD II and the Implementing Regulation, the European Commission decided earlier this month to go ahead with the implementation of the directive as originall...
28 May 2020
After the announcement by Swift to postpone the ISO20022’s go live for X-Border payments, we highlighted (based on the ECB’s decision to maintain ESMIG and T2-T2S go live for 2021) that this will have an impact on the European banks as they will have to manage this delay by maintaining their capability to receive and send SWIFT Message Type (MT) d...
26 May 2020
As we mentioned in a previous article published in the Central Banking magazine, Central Banks have been impacted over the past decade by several drivers of change and remain under the constraint of being impacted again at any point as managing uncertainty remains the leitmotif of their activity. Central Banks must be able to respond swiftly to a...