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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,...

In this blog, Josje Fiolet and Mounaim Cortet, Senior Managers at INNOPAY, discuss how banks need to update their ways of working to realise the commercial benefits of Open Banking. They provide an introduction to the six main challenges for banks and propose a targeted approach to help them improve their operating model in three key area...

Banks need to get their Open Banking strategy right. Our research indicates that...

The EU’s fifth Anti Money Laundering Directive (AMLD5) comes into force in all Member States on 10 January 2020. This latest version of the directive broadens its regulatory scope by including two types of crypto service providers (CSP): virtual-fiat exchanges and custodian wallet providers. The main driver behind this regulatory update i...