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Last week’s seminar called ‘Digital euro meets the Dutch experts’, organise...

Over the past three decades, the European Union has steadily improved its framework to fight money laundering and terrorist financing (AML/CFT). So far, the EU’s action has focused on the prevention, investigation and prosecution of these harmful practices. This article elaborates on the potential effects of the EU’s legislative proposals...

To access to an extended paper which expands on the concepts introduced here, click the link at the end of this blog to download 'Establishing the trust anchor in the digital economy: the case for banks to become 'Data Custodians'. The original article was initially published in the Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems (peer-reviewe...

The rising importance of Open Banking, digital identity, consent management and data sharing has created a ‘Blue Ocean’ market for banks. We believe that they now have a unique opportunity to strengthen and truly safeguard their relevance in the data economy. But they need to start taking decisive action right now in order to demonstrate ...

Sixteen major Eurozone banks have come together in the European Payments Initiative (EPI) to launch a new payment system aimed at taking on rival card schemes and the threat posed by Chinese and US big-tech firms. Although previous pan-European collaboration projects (e.g. Monnet, Eaps, Payfair) have not been perceived as a great success,...