The BIS's Financial Stability Institute (FSI) and the G20's Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) convened the fourth biennial conference on global standard-setting bodies (SSBs) and innovative financial inclusion on 25-26 October 2018 in Basel, Switzerland. The conference took place in ...more »

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) today published a report setting out the analysis behind the FSB’s proactive assessment of the potential implications of crypto-assets for financial stability. This report includes an assessment of the primary risks present in crypto-assets and their markets, such ...more »

The revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) aims to contribute to the development of the EU market for electronic payments, where consumers, retail operators and payment service providers will ...more »

Trading in foreign exchange and other fast-paced electronic markets is increasingly spread across a range of platforms, with non-bank intermediaries, most notably principal trading firms, gaining a stronger foothold. In addition, access to data and data-centric technologies increasingly defines competitive and ...more »

Quale sarà l’impatto dell’ondata tecnologica di Intelligenza Artificiale (AI) e Machine Learning (ML), pilastri della Data Science, sull’industria del Wealth Management (WM)? Di certo l’ondata Fintech sta portando e porterà novità nella matura ...more »

The World Economic Forum (WEF) and Bain & Company conducted a joint research indicating that, by deploying blockchain, global businesses can generate an extra $1 trillion in trade finance that would otherwise be missed out on. According to an Asian Development Bank calculation, the global trade ...more »

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has agreed to renew the prohibition of the marketing, distribution or sale of binary options to retail clients, in effect since 2 July, from 2 October 2018 for a further three-month period. ESMA has also agreed on the exclusion of a limited ...more »

L’innovazione mette alla prova i Wealth Manager Le Fintech stanno diventando realtà anche nel Wealth Management, il mercato più “human intensive” per definizione. Intelligenza artificiale, chatbot e robot sono le tecnologie Fintech ...more »

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) today published a report delivered to the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors on the work of the FSB and standard-setting bodies on crypto-assets. For its part, the FSB has developed a framework, in collaboration with Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures ...more »