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Switzerland: New law to bring Bitcoin and blockchain into the mainstream

15/09/202015/09/2020 FinConf News Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Swiss Councile

The Swiss Council of States has unanimously approved a new blockchain law. The law will allow the use of applications

Technology

Photomath koristi skoro 200 miliona korisnika

09/09/202009/09/2020 FinConf News Photomath

Najpopularnija hrvatska mobilna aplikacija Photomath, koja fotografisanjem rješava matematičke zadatke, pred sam početak školske godine 2020./2021. nalazi se nadomak 200

Banking

Two technology leaders join forces: Giesecke+Devrient invests in Netcetera

09/09/202009/09/2020 FinConf News Giesecke+Devrient, Netcetera

The global security technology group Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) invests in Netcetera. The Swiss software company is one of the leading providers

Style

Danhera Italy

04/09/202004/09/2020 FinConf News Danhera Italy, Luxury Fragrances

Tržište parfema i svijeća cvjeta. Domaći mirisi, mirisne svijeće, ali i ulja i raspršivači privlače znatiželju i uvjeravaju i one

Technology

Top 15 highest-paying programming languages in 2020

04/09/202004/09/2020 FinConf News Technology

The push for digitisation has changed the most in-demand job verticals across the industries. Web, mobiles and software developers have

Banking

Uvođenje eura 2023. ostvarivo je

03/09/202003/09/2020 FinConf News Croatian National Bank, HNB

Iako je izbijanje pandemije snažno pogodilo hrvatsko gospodarstvo i javne financije, uvođenje eura 1. siječnja 2023. ostvarivo je, rekao je

Banking

What role can finance play in the green recovery? EIT Climate-KIC and UNEP Finance Initiative ask leading thinkers to weigh in

03/09/202003/09/2020 FinConf News EIT Climate-KIC, Green Recovery, UNEP Finance Initiative

EIT Climate-KIC, in partnership with the UNEP Finance Initiative, is releasing Aligning finance for the net-zero economy: New ideas from leading

Payments

Mastercard Expands Installment Offerings Through Global Partnerships, Empowers More Consumers to Choose When to Pay with Pre-Sale, Point of Sale and Post-Sale Payment Options

02/09/202002/09/2020 FinConf News MasterCard

TSYS, a Global Payments company, and Mastercard partner to offer highly configurable, issuer-driven installment options providing consumer payment flexibility Consumer

Payments

PayPal je lansirao “Pay in 4”, kratkoročnu beskamatnu ponudu “kupi sada – plati kasnije”

01/09/202001/09/2020 FinConf News PayPal

PayPal je lansirao “Pay in 4”, kratkoročnu beskamatnu ponudu “kupi sada – plati kasnije” za trgovce u SAD-u. Kako se

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Machine Learning in Finance: From Theory to Practice

31/08/202031/08/2020 FinConf News Igor Halperin, Machine Learning, Matthew F. Dixon, Paul Bilokon

by Matthew F. Dixon (Author), Igor Halperin (Author), Paul Bilokon (Author) This book introduces machine learning methods in finance. It presents a unified treatment of machine

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Stress test shows euro area banking system resilient under challenging macroeconomic scenario

30 July 2021

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ECB decides not to extend dividend recommendation beyond September 2021

23 July 2021

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ECB concludes comprehensive assessment of two Italian banks, and one Estonian and one Lithuanian bank

9 July 2021

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ECB publishes supervisory banking statistics for the first quarter of 2021

8 July 2021

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The post-pandemic outlook in the banking union

7 July 2021

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CON/2020/16 Opinion on amendments to the Union prudential framework in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

19 May 2020

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CON/2020/15 Opinion on amendments to Latvian national security, emergency situation and mobilisation laws

10 May 2020

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ECB/2020/22 Regulation (EU) 2020/605 of the ECB of 9 April 2020 amending Regulation (EU) 2015/534 on reporting of supervisory financial information

6 May 2020

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CON/2020/12 Opinion on the identification and reporting by financial institutions of the allocation of sums deposited in savings account

16 April 2020

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ECB/2020/19 Recommendation of the ECB of 27 March 2020 on dividend distributions during the COVID-19 pandemic and repealing Recommendation (ECB/2020/1)

29 March 2020

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Climate risks and financial stability: the snowballing cost of procrastination

2 June 2021

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Bail out people, not banks

15 February 2021

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Fossil fuel lending is a financial stability issue

1 September 2020

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The EU recovery plan can still be made into a catalyst for sustainability

31 July 2020

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Which financial services are needed for financial inclusion?

7 July 2020

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EBA consults on new Guidelines on the role of AML/CFT compliance officers

2 August 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on new Guidelines on the role, tasks and responsibilities of anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) compliance officers. The Guidelines also include provisions on the wider AML/CFT governance set-up, including at the level of the group. Once adopted, these Guidelines will apply to all financial sector operators that are within the scope of the AML Directive. This consultation runs until 2 November 2021. [...]

EBA publishes the results of its 2021 EU-wide stress test

30 July 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today the results of its 2021 EU-wide stress test, which involved 50 banks from 15 EU and EEA countries, covering 70% of the EU banking sector assets. This exercise allows to assess, in a consistent way, the resilience of EU banks over a three-year horizon under both a baseline and an adverse scenario, which is characterised by severe shocks taking into account the impact of the pandemic. The individual bank results promote market discipline and are an input into the supervisory decision-making process. The adverse scenario has an impact of 485 bps on banks’… [...]

EBA publishes clarifications to the sixth set of issues raised by its industry working group on Application Programming Interfaces under the Payment Services Directive (PSD2)

30 July 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today clarifications to a sixth set of issues that had been raised by participants of its Working Group (WG) on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) under the Payment Services Directive (PSD2). The clarifications respond to issues raised on authentication with electronic signatures, biometrics and authentication on mobile apps, preventing social engineering fraud, ability of payment initiation service providers to refuse a payer’s request to initiate a payment transaction, and complexity in the authentication process. [...]

EBA publishes its final Guidelines on the monitoring of the threshold for establishing an intermediate EU parent undertaking

28 July 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final Guidelines on the monitoring of the threshold and other procedural aspects on the establishment of intermediate EU parent undertakings (IPU) as laid down in the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD). The Guidelines specify how third country groups should calculate and monitor the total value of their assets in the Union in order to ensure timely application of the IPU requirement. [...]

EBA consults on technical standards to identify shadow banking entities

26 July 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) setting out criteria for the identification of shadow banking entities for the purposes of reporting large exposures. The consultation runs until 26 October 2021. [...]