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Central Bank Digital Currencies: Today’s buzzword, or time to get ready?
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...
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EPI: Paving the way for future bank relevance, and not just through payments
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,...
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Dutch Wwft now amended in line with EU’s AMLD5
The EU’s fifth Anti Money Laundering Directive (AMLD5) urged the adjustment of the implementation rules of the Wwft (the Dutch Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Act)[1]. In this context, the Wwft has been amended accordingly. The new legislation has come into effect in the Netherlands on 21 May this year.As highlighte...
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PSD2 and Open Banking Use Cases for Insurers in an Open Data Economy
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...
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