Regulation

04 Jan 18 @ 16:31

To be a successful business in Europe in 2018, you will need to be able to demonstrate GDPR compliance. Numerous articles have already detailed what GDPR is, the ramifications of... read more

03 Jan 18 @ 16:26

Authentication tipping point – will PSD2 change we way we pay? Talking about 2018 is hardly possible without mentioning PSD2. So here it is, on top of my list. On... read more

03 Jan 18 @ 13:02

Ant Financial, the digital payments arm of Alibaba, has been forced to abandon a merger with MoneyGram, having failed to satisfy the US government that the deal posed no risk... read more

20 Dec 17 @ 10:10

Retail companies could become the new face of everyday financial transactions once the Revised Payments Services Directive, known as PSD2, goes into effect in the European Union in January. PSD2... read more

14 Dec 17 @ 15:28

Although banks and financial institutions around the world are faring relatively better than their recent past, competitive pressure from traditional rivals and emerging competitors are tightening margins, and impacting profit... read more

01 Dec 17 @ 15:25

As Sainsbury’s prepares to appeal after it lost a High Court case with Visa over a long-running row over  interchange fees, Visa has welcomed the decision which confirms that its interchange fees,  are lawful. The supermarket... read more

28 Nov 17 @ 10:23

2018 is set to be a pivotal year for the financial services industry with both the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the revised Payments Services Directive (PSD2) due to... read more

17 Oct 17 @ 13:35

The governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), Zhou Xiaochuan has been recorded in the press as asking for his country to move open its financial sector. Zhou noted... read more

12 Oct 17 @ 12:40

The race against time has already begun: the new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations), defined in 2015 to strengthen consumer protection at European level, will come into effect as early... read more

09 Oct 17 @ 16:50

As the European Union prepares to usher in new data-sharing rules for banks and financial institutions, antitrust authorities are probing whether the banking industry is preventing rival FinTech services from... read more

03 Oct 17 @ 09:28

Less than six months before the Revised Payments Service Directive (PSD2) makes Open Banking a reality across Europe, research from Accenture has found that two-thirds of consumers in the UK... read more

18 Sep 17 @ 14:50

Data privacy is driving the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) in the UK, and yet it’s widely felt that banks and other financial services institutions have run out of... read more