Russia has subverted international sanctions by building new financial pathways, each of which present new risks. Banks will need to contend with yet more in 2024.
Work is underway to ensure the financial sector in Europe is able to stay resilient through a severe operational disruption.
Following a raft of regulation in the UK this year, can BNPL providers expect more in 2024?
As investment and merger control screening regimes surge, investors will need to stand ready to respond to shifting regulatory requirements and to capitalise on opportunities.
Banks’ main concern is that households will prefer risk-free central bank digital currencies over deposits. How CBDCs are implemented will be key to preserving financial stability.
Financial regulators have artificial intelligence in their cross-hairs as the technology’s use rapidly expands within the capital markets ecosystem.
Euro instant payments are to become universally available under a provisional agreement between the European Commission and European Parliament, but its requirements may pose challenges for banks.
Cards remain a central part of consumer payments — is that a problem?
On the road to harmonised European payments: the birth of the Payments Services Directive.
Three decades on from the establishment of the Single Market, Europe’s capital markets are failing to keep up with rivals.
Corporates in the financial sector need to be especially wary of the growing popularity of, and the risk involved in, the use of WhatsApp and other non-official communications channels.
The much-hated bonus cap was chucked on the UK’s bonfire of EU regulation on October 31.
Greater standardisation across traditional and digital assets will improve efficiencies in both.
Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have been live in Canada and Europe for a while. Why would approval in the US be so important?
Lenders are opting for the standardised approach to calculate their capital requirements, rather than internal models.
As European regulators crack down on money laundering, Switzerland is the latest to announce reform and place a greater burden on banks.
One of Latin America’s biggest economies, Argentina finds itself in a political and economic storm that is swiftly sinking the value of the peso. Amid the tempest, stablecoins could bring financial relief.
Experts are divided on whether the government’s bold change of policy will help the sector.
This year will be remembered as the one in which Europe’s regulators moved in on cryptocurrencies, ushering in the dawn of a newly regulated asset class after a decade-and-a-half of wild experimentation.
Have financial institutions got the balance right between human and automated decision-making when it comes to fraud detection and management?