Martin Bradbury Regional Director, Financial Services UK&I at Dynatrace
Financial services providers are essential for the modern world, supplying the systems critical to the flow of business. Ensuring these systems are resilient and available 24/7 is vital to upholding customer trust, driving business continuity, and maintaining regulatory compliance. The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), a European Union (...
20 May 2024 /security /regulation Banking Regulations
Mete Feridun Chair at EMU Centre for Financial Regulation and Risk
The finalisation of Basel IV marks a significant milestone in the ongoing evolution of global banking regulation. These comprehensive reforms, concluded by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in 2017, introduce critical changes across various dimensions, including risk measurement, capital adequacy, and reporting requirements. In the Europe...
19 May 2024 /regulation /wholesale Banking
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Around the world, there are significant moves to transition from traditional electronic money transfers, which rely on batch settlement systems that can take several days for transactions to clear, to instant, or at least near real-time, payment systems. These new innovative payment systems ensure that beneficiaries receive their funds within seco...
13 May 2024 /payments /regulation The Payments Business
Saloni Ramakrishna Author; Senior Director at Oracle
Banks are accelerating green lending and investing initiatives as they march towards realizing their net zero goals, partnering with their counterparties to reduce the combined carbon footprint. As I said in my last blog post[1], here are a few thoughts on “all that is green is not gold” and why robust risk management aspects and constructs merit ...
13 May 2024 /regulation /sustainable Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited
Watching a televised rugby game, Leinster playing Northampton, at an Irish pub, The Long Hall, NYC, the bill if paid in cash would be discounted. On $100, savings could have been $3.00. Incentives, in the US cash are plentiful, for example, the price of gas (petrol) is lower at the pump when cash is used. Also, at the point of payment, the cust...
12 May 2024 /payments /regulation The Payments Business
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
Artificial intelligence is promising to disrupt a wide array of legacy practices. - Dan Primack, Axios PRO Rata. Based on my firsthand experience with the AI tsunami over the past 9-10 months, I can wholeheartedly get behind the above prediction. In fact, I've already noticed 10 revolutionary things aka gamechangers about ChatGPT and other GenAI p...
08 May 2024 /ai /regulation
Richard Bennett CEO at Razor Risk
In a world where market turmoil and systemic risks are pervasive, effective counterparty credit risk management (CCR) becomes increasingly vital. Recent events, such as the collapse of Archegos Capital Management which caused over $10 billion in losses, commodity market volatility after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and UK gilt market disr...
08 May 2024 /regulation /markets Financial Risk Management
With the successful rollout of PSD2, the European Union (EU) continues to advance innovation in the payments domain through the anticipated introduction of the Payment Services Directive 3 (PSD3). On June 28, 2023, the European Commission published a draft proposal for PSD3 and the Payment Services Regulation (PSR). The finalized versions of this ...
06 May 2024 /payments /regulation SEPA and European Payments
Rodrigo Zepeda CEO at Storm-7 Consulting Limited
By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting INTRODUCTION The Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act 2023 (2023 Act) is legislation that sets out new ‘flexible working’ (FW) rights for firm employees. The statutory right to request FW covers any change in an employee's employment terms and conditions (T&Cs) relating to hours, times, and pl
02 May 2024 /regulation /crypto Fintech
By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting INTRODUCTION The Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act 2023 (2023 Act) is legislation that sets out new ‘flexible working’ (FW) rights for firm employees. The statutory right to request FW covers any request to change an employee's existing employment terms and conditions (T&Cs) relating to hour...
01 May 2024 /regulation /crypto Fintech
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