FinTech has transformed the financial industry significantly. From payments to deposits and lending to financing to investment management. Using innovative technologies like artificial intelligence, big data or blockchain, no aspect of financial services remains untouched. FinTech is not automatically a success though and it needs more than just a fancy tool to create value for …
Financial Technology has arguably transformed financial services in ways previously unseen. While we’re still in a period of transition and plenty of change is yet to come, six areas have crystallised as the key technologies that drive this movement. Digital and Mobile As simple as it may sound, first the Internet and then smartphones have …
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Last week the German financial regulator, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority BaFin, published a consumer warning in respect of initial coin offerings (ICOs). Like other regulators globally, the financial watchdog felt the urge to highlight the risks involved in investing in token offerings. Unfortunately, BaFin contributed little to the situation for German ICOs or the …
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published for public consultationfuture guidelines on the calculation of derivative positions by trade repositories (TRs) authorised in the European Union under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). ESMA supervises the way TRs make data available to public authorities. That data should be of sufficient quality to enable …
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a final report on the Money Market Funds Regulation (MMFR). The final report contains final versions of the technical advice, draft implementing technical standards (ITS), and guidelines on stress test scenarios carried out by MMF managers under the MMFR. The key requirements relate to asset liquidity and …
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Central Bank and financial regulator of the sovereign city/island state, has followed up on its previous announcements and published an ICO guide. Its Guide to Digital Token Offerings aims to address the applicability of financial regulation in relation to Initial Coin Offerings. While most of it is old news …
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ESMA today published a number of updates to different Q&As on MiFID II aspects. The Questions and Answers (Q&As) regarding commodity derivatives under the Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR) aim to promote common supervisory approaches and practices in the application of MiFID II and MiFIR in relation to commodity derivatives …
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Following the rapid inflow of money into Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), increased interest in ICO regulation in one form or another was only a matter of time. And regulators around the globe have contributed to the question of token classification and investor protection extensively. The same is true for some national regulators in Europe that …
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The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a Report on the peer review carried out to evaluate the implementation of its Guidelines on the criteria for the assessment and identification of other systemically important institutions (O-SIIs) across the EU. Overall, the peer review concluded that the majority of the authorities are compliant with the EBA …
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The British financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has today published a warning about the risks of investing in cryptocurrency Contracts for differences (CFDs). The FCA stated that “CFDs, including financial spread bets, with cryptocurrencies as the underlying investment are increasingly being marketed to consumers. These products are extremely high-risk, speculative products.” The FCA …
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