Financial Services Regulation

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.

Nick Green Director at Purple Patch Broking Ltd

Choosing between single or multiple credit bureaus: How do lenders decide

The lending universe heavily relies on credit data in assessing an individual's creditworthiness. This information is collected and analysed by CRAs, like Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian, generating credit scores that guide lenders in their decision-making process. Nevertheless, a critical choice confronts lenders: should they depend on a single...

26 June 2023 /regulation /retail

Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com

First Half Catch-up on Foreign Direct Investment

Most regulatory activity for foreign direct investment in this first half of 2023 has been focused on issuing consultations for proposed changes to existing laws. Several countries issuing consultations in the first 6 months of the year include: Australia: issued a consultation in March as part of its foreign investment reforms which resulted in ...

06 June 2023 /regulation /markets

Mete Feridun Chair at EMU Centre for Financial Regulation and Risk

In what aspects do the UK and EU investment firm prudential regimes diverge?

Investment firms have very different business models and risk profiles to credit institutions. They facilitate savings and investment flows by providing professional services such as investment advice, portfolio management, trading in financial instruments and fund raising for companies. As they do not accept deposits or provide loans, they are ge...

18 May 2023 /regulation /markets

Nick Green Director at Purple Patch Broking Ltd

The importance of high-quality data for risk decisions

In today's financial landscape, fintechs, banks and other lenders need to make sound credit decisions in order to stay afloat. And one of the most important factors in making accurate credit decisions is having high-quality data. But if your data is incomplete, outdated, or not compliant, you won’t be able to use it to make the right risk decisions...

20 April 2023 /regulation /retail

Iain Swaine Director EMEA, Global Advisory at BioCatch

No Caller ID: Stopping the onslaught of fraud text messages and phone calls

Financial institutions everywhere are still wrangling with the issues of vishing and smishing, the identifiable code words for scam phone calls and text messages. According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), there were an estimated 4.5 million fraud offences in the Telephone-operated Crime Survey year ending March 2022, a 25% increa...

17 April 2023 /identity /crime

Retired Member 

Consumer Duty: Five questions to test your organisation’s preparedness

As the first quarter of 2023 draws to a close, Financial Services Institutions (FSIs) are one step closer to needing to demonstrate compliance with the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Consumer Duty. Coming into force for most FSIs on 31 July 2023 (or 30 April for manufacturers and investment businesses that produce, issue, design or build fina...

27 March 2023 /regulation /retail

Nick Green Director at Purple Patch Broking Ltd

The FCAs data priorities through to 2025 (the 4 most important)

Keeping up with regulations is one of the toughest challenges facing the financial service sector. That’s why the FCA is prioritising data and innovation as a key feature of its Business Plan 2022/23, accompanied by its three-year strategy 2022-2025. Emerging themes include data quality, CRA transparency, Big Tech, and data for BNPL firms. If you...

21 March 2023 /regulation /retail

Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com

In This Story, Short Sellers Are Not The Bad Guys

There’s been a deluge of press about the collapse of Adani Group after a report from Hindenburg Research which accuses Adani Group of: stock manipulation, improper use of offshore tax havens to hide the amount of Adani’s family stock ownership in the group companies, and excessive valuations. Hindenburg releases this report and acknowledges that i...

15 February 2023 /regulation /markets

Nick Green Director at Purple Patch Broking Ltd

Have It All: How are Banking and Finance Unlocking Multi-Bureau Data Strategies?

For Banking and Finance, adopting a multi-bureau credit data strategy is often dismissed as “too hard to switch”, “too expensive” or “not important enough”, but this is set to change. The FCA recently set out its interim findings from the credit information market study. The study found one of the key aspects of the market not working well is “sign...

24 January 2023 /regulation /retail

Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com

A Busy Fourth Quarter for Foreign Direct Investment

It was a busy fourth quarter for regulations concerning foreign direct investment. It seems that not all were watching the World Cup. Several jurisdictions issued consultations concerning qualified holdings and investment screening: EU ECB – issued consultation (now closed) on a draft Guide which aims to increase transparency by clarifying the ECB...

09 January 2023 /regulation /markets