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The journey of US Settlements has progressed significantly over the last couple of decades - from T+3 in 2008, to T+2 in 2017. It has received a further thrust with recent recommendation of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) for moving to T+1, by H1 2024. This is a logical continuation of accelerating settlements as...
12 October 2022 /regulation /markets
Luke Firmin
Sanctions are a massively complex area. But all too often, financial institutions think sanctions adherence is fairly straightforward – it’s just checking a list to ensure an individual or company doesn’t appear on it, right? Wrong. Sanctions are far more multi-dimensional and nuanced than that. The UK implements a range of sanctions regimes throug...
05 October 2022 /regulation /crime
Recently, there was a lot of buzz around how the RBI has found four viable products for cross-border payments under its regulatory sandbox. Many of our readers and colleagues didn’t know/hadn’t heard of ‘Regulatory Sandbox. In this blog, we deconstruct what a regulatory sandbox is and how it shapes the disruption in the traditional financial secto...
15 September 2022 /payments /regulation
Mete Feridun Chair at EMU Centre for Financial Regulation and Risk
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's (BCBS) Standardised Approach to Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR) was introduced to improve the risk sensitivity of capital framework for derivatives transactions without creating undue complexity for banks. One of the Committee’s key objectives in formulating the SA-CCR standard was to design an appro...
06 September 2022 /regulation /markets
Steven Rackham CTO for Financial Services at NetApp
The financial services (FS) sector is the engine behind the economy of the United Kingdom and virtually every other developed economy, contributing around 8.6% to the total economic output in the UK. Resilience is therefore critical for the FS sector, to keep the lights of the UK economy firmly ‘on’ for both businesses and the people that rely on ...
24 August 2022 /retail /wholesale
Joost Van Houten Founder & CEO at Sentinels
In March 2022, global regulatory watchdog the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) adopted amendments to Recommendation 24 (R.24) of its 40 Recommendations that govern global anti-money laundering (AML) policy. This concerns Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO), i.e., the person who profits from money moving into or out of a business. These are signi...
01 August 2022 /regulation /crime
Ben O'Brien Managing Director at Jaywing
The Prudential Regulation Authority have taken another step towards implementing their vision of managing prudential risk for smaller financial institutions through the publication of CP 5/22, “The Strong and Simple Framework: a definition of a Simpler-regime Firm”. As the name suggests, this latest publication outlines the proposals for the defin...
25 July 2022 /regulation
Nish Kotecha Co-Founder & Chairman at Finboot
ABBA, one of the most successful bands in history performed in London recently. Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid looked real, authentic and amazing for their years. The crowds loved it. Regrettably, the singers were holograms created with weeks of performing on a stage in Stockholm, in front of hundreds of cameras collecting their every movemen...
05 July 2022 /regulation /crime
The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in financial services is pushing the eternal battle against money laundering into a new phase. For some time, in a bid to curb the amount of illicit finance passing through their systems and to comply with ever-tightening regulations, financial institutions have been throwing mone...
20 June 2022 /regulation /crime
The European Commission's (EC) Action Plan on sustainable finance is a major policy objective by the European Union (EU) to promote sustainable investment. As per the plan, banks are expected to finance sustainable economic activities to trasition to a carbon neutral economy. The plan was introduced in March 2018 in response to the Paris Agreemen...
29 May 2022 /regulation /sustainable
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