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How to remotely identify clients and become PSD2 compliant?
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published in June 2019 an Opinion on the elements of strong customer authentication (SCA) under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) . The ...
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Financial institutions against money laundering | AML
In recent years, the banking sector in the European Union has been shaken by different scandals related to money laundering. On July 24th, 2019, the European Commission published repor...
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Psd2, Brexit & the rise of payment services market in Belgium
On the 6th of August 2019, the National Bank of Belgium ("NBB") published a press release announcing that in 2019, there was substantial growth of applications for the executio...
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Facebook & Libra, the sensational entry in the financial world
By targeting the approximate 1.7 billion people around the world who do not have access to a traditional bank account, the American firm Facebook aspires to rely on its 2.4 billion user...
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RBA - Risk Based Approach: strengths and weaknesses
In today’s financial challenging environment, institutions are exposed to numerous economic abuses making it necessary to activate preventive measures to decrease the risks. Among the...
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Inside RegTech - Regulatory Compliance Technology
🎬 Introduction to RegTech and Regulatory ComplianceThe worldwide economic repercussions of the 2008 financial crisis led regulators to strengthen their regulations and controls against the financial market operators. Today, financial institutions are facing a challenging regulatory landscape (MiF...
AML - KYC : Impacts of the 4th AML Directive (AMLD4)
What will be the impacts of implementation of the Fourth AML EU Directive (2015/849) ?Since 1991, the European Union has regularly implemented new anti-money laundering directives. On the 20th of May 2015, the European Parliament and the Council issued the Fourth AML Directive (2015/849) on the prev...
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