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This network is for financial professionals interested in staying up to date on financial services regulation happening anywhere in the world. CFOs, bankers, fund managers, treasurers welcome.
The exponential growth of institutional and retail investor interest in the crypto markets has led to the inevitable need to reposition existing financial regulatory frameworks to incorporate supervis...
Approximately 250 firms, including many more buy-side firms, could fall into scope for Phase 5 of the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR), according to AcadiaSoft’s estimates. At the same time, firms will ne...
There are many challenging areas for the traditional Fintech industry to get into, with one of the most challenging areas in the world being the Post Soviet space. This includes Russia and any country...
Friday, August 30 marks the end of the U.S. AANA (Average Aggregate Notional Amount) calculation period for uncleared over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. By next week, all U.S.-based firms should know...
In today’s highly digitalised world, data is at the core of everything we do. The increased use of technology means that firms now produce and process more data than ever before. This is particularly ...
According to PSD2, regulated TPPs are allowed to access banks’ PSD2 interfaces. TPPs can choose whether to integrate with banks on their own or to rely on an aggregator - Technical Service Provider (T...
Today, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) recommended that prudential regulators add a sixth phase to the global reg...
On Friday 21st June the EBA published a new Opinion Paper on the elements of strong customer authentication (SCA) under PSD2 which has been subsequently been backed up a by confirmatory statement fr...
Back in April, the CEOs of UK insurers, brokers, and other providers, received a letter from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) telling them to sort out poor customer service or else. This is all p...
In late March, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) issued guidance to national regulators stating that Phase 4 and 5 ...
Since MiFID II was implemented at the start of 2018, financial markets have struggled to adapt to the new and rigorous regulatory requirements. Recently, high profile cases have brought the consequenc...
During the past months, the Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Task Force has made huge steps towards the implementation of a faster payments / real-time payments system in the US. As a result, the Fed...