11/16/2016
Singapore issues sandbox guidelines for fintech experiments
The guidelines incorporate feedback from the public consultation as well as learning points from actual sandbox applications.
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11/15/2016
SEC Chief Says Fintech May Need New Regulation
Global investment in fintech companies is estimated to be over $19 billion last year.
11/15/2016
European Commission are launching a Task Force on Financial Technology
The work of this Task Force builds on the Commission's goal to develop a comprehensive strategy on FinTech.
11/15/2016
SimCorp Partners with Cassini Systems to Enhance Its Front Office Offering
The partnership will help firms that use derivatives to improve their assessment of the total cost of trade to make more informed investment decisions.
11/13/2016
Russian Banks Suffered Powerful DDOS Attacks - Good News is that Attacks were Successfully Mitigated
The intensity of the attacks reached 660 thousands of requests per second. It is also noted that some of the banks were attacked repeatedly.
11/13/2016
Nasdaq Wins RiskTech 100 Best Operational Risk & GRC Software Solution
The BWise GRC platform is used by hundreds of organizations across industry sectors worldwide.
11/11/2016
Hong Kong Central Bank Flags Blockchain Money-Laundering Risk
Distributed-ledger technology offers “good potential, but a lot of things need to be addressed,” Shu Pui Li
11/10/2016
PSD2 Could End Up Being a Boon to — Yikes! — Banks
PSD2, will require EU banks to open the EU payment market to companies offering consumer or business-oriented payment services
11/09/2016
Tech groups may bring cash piles home under Trump
Proposal to slash tax on repatriated profits should encourage overseas rethink
11/07/2016
Former Barclays boss says technology is the key to scandal-free banking
Jenkins, who has often been described as the nicest man in banking, also told the newspaper that the growing usefulness of technology in the sector would soon result in less need for bankers.
11/07/2016
Ogier advises company targeting global fintech acquisitions
The listing is expected both to boost GRG’s profile and provide financial and operational flexibility to allow its directors to carry out the company’s acquisition policy.
11/03/2016
Swiss Federal Council wants to reduce barriers to market entry for fintech firms
The Federal Council, a seven-member executive council essentially the country’s cabinet outlined its objectives geared to make Switzerland welcome the likes of bitcoin and blockchain-startups as a part of its wider drive to embrace the Fintech indus
11/03/2016
International Law firm applies AI to unearth legal implications of financial regs
This collaboration is part of our journey to bring together the best of today's technological capabilities and the best legal skills and expertise.
11/03/2016
“Default” payment methods by Val Srinivas, Steve Fromhart, Richa Wadhwani, Deloitte
The digital marketplace reset you did not see coming!
11/03/2016
JWG to help industry unlock regulatory reporting
It was a natural progression for JWG to support the FCA’s RegTech agenda.
11/03/2016
UK challenger bank FGTB bites the dust
FGTB was granted an “authorisation with restriction” licence from the regulators earlier this year.
11/01/2016
Pinsent Masons calls for clearer regulatory guidance on robo-advice
Robo advice tools have the potential to help address the UK's 'advice gap' that was highlighted in the Financial Advice Market Review, published in March 2016.
10/25/2016
private banking group selects BearingPoint’s Regulatory Technology for FinRep Reporting
This is an important milestone for us and proves that our Abacus platform is state of the art in regulatory reporting.
10/22/2016
Different approaches needed on regulating blockchain and digital currencies
Policy makers and regulators need to adopt different approaches to rule-making for blockchain and digital currencies than those taken in the past to regulating new technologies and the business models enabled by them.
10/22/2016
European Central Bank 'strongly supports' moves to bring virtual currency exchanges within scope of AML rules
Plans to bring virtual currency exchanges and digital wallet providers within the scope of EU anti-money laundering (AML) legislation have been backed by the European Central Bank (ECB).