03/02/2018
Mexico financial technology law passes final hurdle in Congress
Regulators will soon begin crafting so-called secondary laws, which will determine key details for companies in the sector.
03/02/2018
Regulators will soon begin crafting so-called secondary laws, which will determine key details for companies in the sector.
03/01/2018
Regulator issues subpoenas to parties engaged in booming market for initial coin offerings
02/26/2018
A procedural prudence standard and a suitability standard are similar in that they both require the fiduciary to demonstrate they are acting in best interests of another.
02/26/2018
SS&C has been providing global, middle- and back-office and performance measurement outsourcing services for more than 20 years.
02/26/2018
Although parties have a duty to provide full disclosure of their assets in a divorce, the anonymous nature of cryptocurrencies potentially make them a safe haven for spouses wishing to hide their money from a warring partner.
02/22/2018
It will examine the potential impact of distributed ledger technology – such as blockchain – on financial institutions, including the central bank, and financial infrastructure.
02/21/2018
The Financial Conduct Authority has today announced that it is seeking views on how technology can make it easier for firms to meet their regulatory reporting requirements and improve the quality of the information they provide.
02/21/2018
FOI from Professional Adviser
02/20/2018
Whilst cryptocurrencies and the blockchains they use are not an entirely anonymous system, they are unregulated and the identity of the user is hard to trace.
02/20/2018
Under the federal securities laws, the SEC can suspend trading in a stock for 10 days and generally prohibit a broker-dealer from soliciting investors to buy or sell the stock again until certain reporting requirements are met.
02/20/2018
Creating transparency at this time is important given the dynamic market and the high level of demand. Each case must be decided on its individual merits
02/20/2018
The States of Jersey says this will benefit trade and help law enforcement agencies cooperate with their counterparts in other jurisdictions.
02/20/2018
The Financial Conduct Authority and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have today signed an arrangement that commits the regulators to collaborating and supporting innovative firms through each other’s financial technology initiative
02/20/2018
Sound Practices Implications of fintech developments for banks and bank supervisors
02/20/2018
Analysts have said banks could become irrelevant as fintech firms become the “face” of financial services, a scenario Basel said seems far-fetched.
02/16/2018
The GDPR will bring with it some important changes to data protection law.
02/14/2018
Authorities in other countries have followed the FCA's lead
02/13/2018
Financial institutions will be expected to set clear resolution processes for unauthorised or erroneous payment transactions.
02/12/2018
What the advent of contract analytics could mean for the future function of corporate legal departments.
02/12/2018
A bill is expected to be considered by Parliament in the second quarter of 2018.