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Cassy Ramsey

Regulation and compliance are essential when picking the right BaaS provider

The term Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) has shot to prominence in recent years, but there is no single definition of a BaaS provider - some providers are strictly IT specialists, others hold licences lim...

13 Mar 2024
Embedded Finance
Shahzaib Muhammad Feroz

Why Detecting Trade based Money Laundering Matters?

Financial institutions protect the financial system and play a critical role in preventing money laundering, including the tough challenge of trade-based money laundering (TBML). In TBML, criminals ex...

12 Mar 2024
RegTech
Scott Dawson

How Regulation Can Supercharge Your Business

We all rely on the world that regulation creates – yet we groan at the mere mention of the dreaded ‘red tape’. With each new evolution in payments regulations, like the introduction of PSD2, we see ...

12 Mar 2024
Fintech
Shailendra Malik

RBI’s cautious approach kept India safe from BNPL issues

NatWest in UK last week announced that it is ditching its BNPL products and many experts not are attributing this due to the over crowded market and banks may gradually become less interested in thes

11 Mar 2024
Banking
Rodrigo Zepeda

FCA/PRA Diversity and Inclusion for Crypto and FinTech Firms: PART IV

By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting INTRODUCTION In 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) (Bank of England (BoE)) (collectively the “regulato...

08 Mar 2024
Fintech
Rodrigo Zepeda

FCA/PRA Diversity and Inclusion for Crypto and FinTech Firms: PART III

By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting INTRODUCTION In 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) (Bank of England (BoE)) (collectively the “regulato...

07 Mar 2024
Fintech
Riaz Syed

What financial institutions need to know about coreless banking

Coreless banking represents a groundbreaking paradigm shift in the world of banking, aiming to revolutionize how financial institutions operate. In a nutshell, it is about embracing a system that giv...

07 Mar 2024
Open Banking
Karel Nappus

The Baltics Effect: The impact of the Baltics regulatory environment on the payments industry

The Baltic States—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—are appealing to numerous Payment Initiation Service (PIS) providers because they serve as an entry point to the entire Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA...

07 Mar 2024
Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Rodrigo Zepeda

FCA/PRA Diversity and Inclusion for Crypto and FinTech Firms: PART II

By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting INTRODUCTION In 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) (Bank of England (BoE)) (collectively the “regulato...

06 Mar 2024
Fintech
King Leung

Time to switch up Hong Kong’s international financial centre playbook in the Year of the Loong

Hong Kong has a well-established playbook of why it’s a leading international finance centre. We have competitive and low tax structures, free flow of capital, access to the Greater Bay Area (GBA), f

06 Mar 2024
Asia Financial Services
Francesco Fulcoli

FCA Sounds Alert Over Weak Money Laundering Controls - Dear CEO Letter

Francesco Fulcoli - Chief Compliance Officer The UK's financial regulator has sent a serious warning to financial institutions after identifying widespread failings in how firms are preventing money ...

06 Mar 2024
Fintech
Rodrigo Zepeda

FCA/PRA Diversity and Inclusion for Crypto and FinTech Firms: PART I

By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting INTRODUCTION “Complicated as hell.” That is how I would summarise new proposed regulatory measures to boost “diversity and inclusion” (D&I) in financial ...

05 Mar 2024
Fintech

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