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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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China’s Fintech Explosion: Disruption, Innovation, and Survival

06/06/202012/08/2020 FinConf News China, Disruption, Fintech, Innovation

by Sara Hsu (Author), Jianjun Li (Author) Financial technology—or fintech—is gaining in popularity globally as a way of making financial services more efficient and

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Bank 4.0: Banking Everywhere, Never at a Bank 1st Edition

06/06/202012/08/2020 FinConf News

by Brett King (Author) Winner of best book by a foreign author (2019) at the Business Book of the Year Award organised by

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The Oxford Handbook of Banking (Oxford Handbooks) 3rd Edition

06/06/202012/08/2020 FinConf News

by Allen N. Berger (Editor), Philip Molyneux (Editor), John O.S. Wilson (Editor) The Oxford Handbook of Banking, Third Edition provides an overview and analysis of developments and

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Doing Digital: Lessons from Leaders

07/05/202012/08/2020 FinConf News Chris Skinner

by Chris Skinner (Author) There has been lots of discussion of digital and open banking, banking-as-a-service, banking platforms, FinTech and TechFin and

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‘Holding Bankers to Account’, by Oonagh McDonald

06/01/202006/08/2020 FinConf News Banking Regulation, Oonagh McDonald

Punctilious dissection takes in Barings, the Big Bang and the failures of regulation One of the most interesting insights in

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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. [...]