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Over the past three decades, the European Union has steadily improved its framework to fight money laundering and terrorist financing (AML/CFT). The EU’s action has focused on the prevention, investigation and prosecution of these harmful practices. In July 2021 the European Commission (EC) presented a package of legislative proposals th...

Customer interaction and product distribution is increasingly taking place at new forefronts: at the point of interaction of digital journeys in third-party channels. The rapid rate of digitalisation is also driving the next phase of bancassurance. Banks need to start preparing for this right now – not only to protect their market share, ...

Around a decade ago, the global Decentralised Finance (DeFi) movement started to develop financial applications that no longer required traditional central financial intermediaries such as banks and exchanges. The DeFi movement is based on the disrupting perspective that existing financial products and services can be recreated, utilisin...

The current financial system will undergo fundamental change over the coming decade. According to the members of the research panel set up by De Nieuwe Wereld and consultancy firm INNOPAY, there is no doubt that cryptocurrencies will contribute to a more stable monetary system. In a special broadcast of De Nieuwe Wereld’s YouTube channel,...

It probably won’t be long now until insurance companies – just like banks – with PSD2 are required to develop API portals to share customer data with third parties. Insurers have a choice: to wait it out and treat it as a compliance issue when the time comes, or to view it as an opportunity right now, according to Maarten Bakker, a partne...