Opinions & Analysis

Payments & Settlements

The New Cold War Is Financial

By Tom Keatinge | 29/09/2020

Banks and financial infrastructure are emerging as an expanding front in geopolitics, writes RUSI’s Tom Keatinge.

Anti-Money Laundering

Crypto Industry Responds to FATF Red Flag Report

By Nathan Smale | 28/09/2020

New guidance from the FATF has been welcomed by the crypto industry, despite the compliance challenges it presents, writes Nathan Smale at Emfarsis.

PEPs & Sanctions

Gaming Out Sanctions Risk

By Eric A. Sohn | 27/09/2020

Sanctions specialist Eric Sohn explains how wargaming exercises can be used as a risk management tool to game out threats and enhance strategic planning.

Emerging Prudential Risks

Too Big to Fail: Markets Abhor a Vacuum

By Jamie Lloyd Evans | 24/09/2020

Some characteristics of the TBTF challenge are specific to Asia, but these may be intractable from ‘winner-takes-all’ capitalism and national interests, writes industry veteran Jamie Lloyd Evans.

Clearing & Post-Trade

Riding the Tech Wave in a Volatile Derivatives Market

By John Omahen | 23/09/2020

A surge in trading volumes has highlighted the need for brokerage firms to re-engineer their businesses for the future, writes John Omahen at FIS.

Anti-Money Laundering

Global AML Reforms Need to Be More Ambitious

By Che Sidanius | 21/09/2020

The European Commission is taking decisive action to fight financial crime by reforming its AML rules and enforcement mechanism, writes Refinitiv’s Che Sidanius.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability

GCRA: Little More Than Acting the Part

By Tamara Scicluna | 18/09/2020

We need real-time insights into cultural drivers of behaviour rather than backward-looking surveillance systems designed to catch bad actors after-the-fact.

Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime

Wirecard: The Biggest FinTech Success and Failure Story of All Time

By Oonagh van den Berg | 17/09/2020

Wirecard will be a compliance and audit training reference point for years to come, says compliance expert Oonagh van den Berg, recounting the warning signs in the years-long lead up to its collapse.

Data Privacy

Data Governance: Avoid the Damage of Data Restriction

By Julia Walker | 16/09/2020

Everledger’s Leanne Kemp and Refinitiv’s Julia Walker set out the urgent case for cross-border data flow, including to channel finance to sustainable investments.