Finance Regulation Technology

Peter Deans outlines the ’52 Risks’ framework that he has developed from his extensive career as a Chief Risk Officer, and relates this to the scenarios of a pandemic and digital transformation. He emphasizes the importance of avoiding quantification biases, and ensuring operations are versatile.

David Hardoon describes the key emerging issues in data policy that have been highlighted by the COVID-19 experience, including the value assigned to privacy, connectivity across borders, and the unintended consequences of some previous policy settings.

Rob Morgan visits FRT to share how the American Bankers Association (ABA) initiatives are helping smaller US banks access business innovations.

Kati Suominen returns to FRT, discussing how the COVID-19 experience will accelerate technology adoption and overhaul trade patterns.

Acclaimed author Chris Skinner visits on FRT to discuss his latest book, Doing Digital, profiling the digitalization efforts, challenges and success stories of JP Morgan, BBVA, ING, DBS & China Merchants Bank.

Insights from the third installment of the IIF’s series on Digital Identity, exploring the positive impact creating business opportunities in the financial service industry.

The G20 put payments, regtech, and bigtech in finance on the spring action plan for the FSB with data policy and the future of money forming the context. Meanwhile, impacts of the novel coronavirus seized attention as the official sector readied response plans.

The first report in our new IIF-Deloitte series Realizing the Digital Promise explores the key internal and external challenges that financial institutions face in their digital transformation journeys.

Standard Bank CEO Sim Tshabalala and Refinitiv’s Sherry Madera join us in Davos to share their key highlights from the World Economic Forum, across climate, data, combatting financial crime, and how societies adapt with the pace of change.

Standard Life Aberdeen Chairman Douglas Flint discusses the opportunities in digital identity and combatting financial crime, as well as ensuring that banks and insurers can preserve customer trust in the way they handle data.

We discuss the recent Basel Committee report on Open Banking and APIs with lead author Linda Jeng.

Allianz CRO Tom Wilson shares his insights on the transformation of the insurance business model, including through the growth of InsurTech solutions (with Mary Frances Monroe).

Climate risk, the Ethical use of data, and digital transformation were the dominant themes of the annual RiskMinds conference, as leading CROs Jaco Grobler and Peter Deans join us to discuss.

Conan French speaks with Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief FinTech Officer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, about key themes from this year’s festival and intersections with the IIF digital finance topics. More than 60,000 attendees from 130 countries participated in this year’s event to explore new technologies and the future of finance with data, APIX, digital transformation, and Central Bank Digit...

Former CFTC Chairman Chris Giancarlo joins us at the Singapore FinTech Festival to discuss his proposal for a Digital Dollar with the IIF’s Brad Carr and Conan French.

The Bank of England’s wide-ranging Future of Finance report provides a forward-looking view across topics such as the emergence of a “cash-lite” economy, data standards, artificial intelligence, cloud, digital identity, demographic changes, and the transition to a low carbon economy. Lead author Huw van Steenis (formerly Special Adviser to Governor Mark Carney, and now Senior Advisor to the CEO at...

FRT joins forces with CQ RollCall’s Fintech Beat podcast. Fintech Beat Host, Professor Chris Brummer of Georgetown University, and FRT's own, Brad Carr of IIF, share their key takeaways across IIF's Annual Membership Meeting, the IMF & World Bank annual meetings, and DC's FinTech Week.

FDIC Chair Jelena McWilliams joins IIF CEO Tim Adams and Brad Carr to discuss the roles for banks and supervisors in enabling innovative solutions for customers and promoting greater financial inclusion.

We preview the exciting speakers and panel discussions that will feature in the IIF Annual Membership Meeting, to be held in Washington DC on October 16-19.

IIF authors Brad Carr and Daniel Pujazon debrief our recent paper on Cloud Service Providers, and some of the potential regulatory treatments for the increasingly critical role they play in the financial system.

Michael Brett (Rigetti Computing) returns to FRT, discussing the opportunities for quantum computing in financial services, market landscape for the technology, first-mover advantages, and the alignment with banks’ Cloud strategies (with Brad Carr and Conan French).

With the IIF Machine Learning in Credit Risk 2nd Edition Report tracking the industry’s progress with these technologies over the past year, leading contributor Paul Edwards (Scotiabank) joins IIF report authors Brad Carr and Natalia Bailey to discuss the survey’s key findings

Jo Ann and the IIF’s Adrien Delle-Case give us their readout of the 2019 Global AML and Financial Crime Tech Sprint.

Following his testimony at the US Congressional hearings on Facebook’s proposed Libra digital currency, Professor Chris Brummer joins FRT to discuss the top takeaways and the potential implications for other initiatives in the digital currency landscape (with Brad Carr & Conan French)

Riksbank Governor Stefan Ingves discusses Sweden’s “cashless” economy, the potential eKrona digital currency, and the importance of staying the course in regulatory developments (with Brad Carr).