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Federal Reserve Financial Services Systems Disrupted for Hour
By Paul Kiernan and Orla McCaffrey
February 24, 2021, The Wall Street Journal
The Federal Reserve said Wednesday an unspecified error disrupted all of its financial-services systems in an extraordinary …
Confidential Computing Projects Could Answer Industry’s Cloud Security Questions
By Rebecca Natale
February 19, 2021, WatersTechnology
“It’s a funny story,” says Richard Brown, chief technology officer of R3, an enterprise software firm originally set up in 2014 as a …
UK Banks Push for Ambitious Financial Services Strategy
By Daniel Thomas
February 21, 2021, Financial Times
The UK’s top banks have urged ministers to develop an ambitious strategy to boost exports of financial services after the sector was …
Creating a Level Playing Field for Regulating FinTech
By Chris Skinner
Originally published at Chris Skinner’s blog, The Finanser
The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) just released a paper on how governments and central banks should deal with …
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The Biden Administration Has Its Eyes on Fintech. GameStop Just Upped the Ante.
By Tomio Green
February 1, 2021, Protocol
If fintech wasn’t already a top priority for financial regulators under the Biden administration, it surely is after last week.
Fintech companies were …
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Ana Botín: Banking Regulation Needs a Reset
By Ana Botín
January 4, 2021, Financial Times
As the new year begins, and we try to rebuild our economies, we need to rethink the way we regulate finance. That …
High-Frequency Traders Can Keep Code Secret Under New CFTC Rule
By Benjamin Bain
December 8, 2020, Bloomberg
U.S. derivatives regulators have approved regulations for high-frequency trading that exclude a controversial plan that would have increased government access to traders’ computer …
FCA details Mifid onshoring process post-Brexit
December 8, 2020, Central Banking
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is testing two new systems that will be used by firms to report data related to the Markets in Financial …
Regulators voice concerns over cloud risk
By Steve Marlin
November 18, 2020, Risk
Concerns are growing among regulators that an outage or failure at a tech giant that provides outsourced cloud services to a large number …
A More Balanced Regulatory Framework Is Needed to Achieve a Level Playing Field for Banks, BigTech, and FinTech
By Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, MRV Associates
Originally published in Forbes
Better regulations are urgently needed to achieve a level playing field for banks, financial technology companies (FinTech) and big technology …
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