Risk management for an interconnected world
Tuesday 01 October 2019
The gang at FNA not only appreciate the complexity of mapping multifaceted relationships to better understand modern financial markets, they also take the time to appreciate Mancunian beer that showcases local artists. What is FNA – what problem are you solving? Since the financial crisis of 2007–2008, regulators and supervisors have recognised the interconnected nature
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ING and CBA tackles MiFID II/MiFIR in seconds with Ascent
Tuesday 24 September 2019
ING and CBA Pinpoint MiFID-II/MiFIR Obligations in 2.5 Minutes Using Ascent. Regulatory compliance programs cost financial firms billions of dollars annually. Much of this cost is a result of the exhaustive amount of time required to manually analyze regulations and determine how it impacts the firm — a laborious process that starts all over again
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Easing the pain of GDPR
Tuesday 17 September 2019
Keepabl offers an intuitive, customer-focused GDPR-as-a-Service solution. Their ‘product-led’ software regularly gets incredibly positive emotional responses when people see the solution. The two year old startup is often told by clients: ‘I can’t wait to use this’ – and this is about GDPR software! According to Robert Baugh, CEO, Keepabl: “When the product responds to
- Published in Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Identity, RegTech, Regulations, Start-ups
PAD is not enough… Biometric security needs RAD
Tuesday 17 September 2019
A thought provoking blog post from Gabriel Turner, Product Manager, iProov. Presentation Attack Detection or “PAD” is increasingly a hot topic within the biometrics industry. While this is definitely a step in the right direction, cyber-thieves are still diligently exploiting security gaps in identity proofing and strong customer authentication. Exclusive focus on presentation attacks alone
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RegTech’s moment has arrived
Tuesday 03 September 2019
After Brian Clark witnessed the under-regulation, risk-taking and lax compliance practices that led to the 2008 global financial crisis, he founded Ascent. The RegTech company keeps businesses ahead of increasing regulation, helping them reduce regulatory and reputational risk. Today, the team is comprised of compliance officers, lawyers, data scientists and technologists who, in addition to
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You need your ‘Tech’ in your ‘Fin’ (even if you don’t have to say it) Our community has spoken
Wednesday 29 May 2019
There is some debate over when the word ‘FinTech’ first came into use. I remember it being used in my New York office in the mid 1990s as a shortened, pre-hashtag, version of Financial Technology, there is evidence of a Sunday Times column from Peter Ridder that was called ‘FinTech’ in the mid 1980s, and
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Do we still need ‘FinTech’?
Wednesday 22 May 2019
At last week’s FinTECH4Life event Vica Manos, managing director at Anthemis Group commented that they do not use the term ‘FinTech’ inside their venture capital operation. “We say Financial Services and the tech is assumed,” she said. The reasons behind this decision in terminology is because our industry often has disparate and differing opinions on
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Mad Bunny Hunt – Help us find our tickets and they could be yours!
Wednesday 03 April 2019
As most of us start to plan our chocolate egg collection – we are sad to announce that there has been a burglary at TECHTalents Towers. On the eve of Pancake Day in the UK (that’s Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras or Carnival to the rest of you) we were invaded by some Mad Bunnies. These
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Rolling up your sleeves and getting involved
Wednesday 27 March 2019
I’m very inspired by the application of technology rather than the technology itself. For us, we’re looking at a whole range of where they can best help to serve our customers better. So what we were looking at is areas such as machine learning so that we can have real insight into how to better
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RegTech with a dose of Parisian style
Wednesday 27 March 2019
Fortia is a RegTech firm that likes to ‘do things differently’. They are using artificial intelligence and Deep Learning to help companies discover new insights, reduce false positive alerts, measure the confidence of negative alerts and provide the ability to speed up the analysis of critical operational data. You can meet Fortia as part of
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