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Widely regarded as the more respectable face of crypto, stablecoins are poised to become an integral part of the financial system’s future. With their ability to stabilise prices and in conjunction with harmonised regulations, stablecoins hold the promise of improving access to financial services. During EBAday 2020 in November, Josje Fio...

A much-discussed (and much-hyped) topic among central banks is the issuing of currency in a digitalised form: a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). It is claimed that CBDCs could have a significant impact on the payment infrastructure and ecosystem because they could change the rules of the game. However, the various existing CBDC imple...

With the approval of the Dutch Senate, the law for registration of Ultimate Beneficiary Owners (UBOs) came into effect on 23 June 2020. Under the law, a UBO is defined as a person who controls at least a 25% stake in a company and whose registration is a requirement for financial service providers under the anti-money laundering directive...

In Malaysia, where cash is still the preferred payment method for both consumers...

Legal drivers such as GDPR and PSD2 in Europe and CDR in Australia are enabling the customer with more ownership and control over its own data. As a result, the customer is increasingly empowered to more easily provide consent-based access to his/her data by a service provider of choice. This trend is accelerating across countries, indust...