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A Recent Development It is no secret that the UK FCA has been put under considerable pressure in the past year to ease up regulation in order to “support growth”. This has led the FCA to perform a series of regulatory changes, the latest of those initiatives announced on the 29th of September 2025, in […]
A Possible Farewell to the Consumer Duty, and Business Opportunities in Compliance Read More »
This happens too often – a financial institution mis-sells a financial product and loses its license. This happens everywhere – in Oman, for example, the FSA recently revoked the license of a company named CSI Financial, after the latter marketed financial products it was not allowed to market. This happens unnecessarily – as you can easily
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Usually, regulators are not ahead of the private market. However, when it comes to consolidation of processes and functions, so it seems they are now pointing the way to financial institutions worldwide. Here is what the titanic shift in global AML supervisory practices can teach us about the KYC/AML solution of tomorrow. Regulation is Local,
Supervision Goes Global, and So Should your KYC/AML Solution Read More »
The UK FCA dispatched a letter to the British PM, declaring “A New Approach to Ensure Regulators and Regulations Support Growth”. In the letter, the FCA states it is willing to take a more risky regulatory approach, in order to assist financial growth. “To achieve the deep reforms necessary, your acceptance that we will take
Abstract The very approach to financial regulation is changing these very days. Fast-paced, wide-scale disruptive technologies such as Gen AI have propelled a fundamental, global shift from Prescriptive Regulation to Agile Regulation. Agile Regulation is a concept that includes several types of regulatory strategies, and primarily Outcome-focused Regulation (OFR). OFR, as its name suggests, focuses
MiCA and the Digital Finance Package On the 24th of September 2020, the EU introduced its “digital finance package”. The “package” was a bundle of suggested legislative and policy measures aiming to: The EU hoped the digital finance package “would unleash European innovation and create opportunities to develop better financial products for consumers, including for
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Introduction The financial services industry, particularly the FX sector, operates in a dynamic regulatory environment. For example, in the EU, MiFID II and MiFIR are currently in a comprehensive review process, scheduled to proceed well into 2025, and include major changes to, among other things, derivatives transparency requirements. And this is, of course, just one
Navigating the Evolving Regulatory Landscape in the FX Industry Read More »
A guest editorial for FX News Group as published 14th August 2023 Spanish Barbie-Clients In the 2023 movie “Barbie” (spoilers ahead), Barbie’s perennial male counterparty Ken “imports” Patriarchy into Barbie-Land, and, using nothing more than beer and horse-related imagery, manages to make (almost) all the Barbies abandon their positions of power and accept submissive, Ken-serving
Spanish CFD Barbie-Clients and Fundamental EU Rights Read More »
Tell us about yourself and your organisation Back in 2006, after many years working in the offshore finance industry, and experiencing the massive changes in compliance and risk assessment that came into force in the late 90s and early 2000s, I decided to establish a research tool based on country AML risk. Initially, the focus
Ask the Expert: Gary Youinou, Managing Director, KnowYourCountry Limited Read More »
OpEd by Remonda Kirketerp-Møller, Founder & CEO, Muinmos As published in Finance Magnates on 13 February 2022. Imaginary borders If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that borders are imaginary. A virus that appears in China today can be in the US tomorrow; and a “South-African” variant can infect people all over Europe.
The Days of Regulatory Arbitrage Are Numbered….Will Brokers Be Forced to Shut Down? Read More »