Global Finance

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Global Finance magazine interviewed Philippines Central Bank Governor Eli Remolona, who earned an “A–” grade in the magazine’s 2024 Central Banker Report Cards. GF : The Philippines Central Bank (BSP) was the first major central bank in Asia to cut rates following the widespread regional post Covid-19 monetary tightening.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

House committee this week began reviewing the idea of allowing the likes of Amazon or Facebook to receive charters to operate as banks — an idea that’s already gotten plenty of pushback from traditional financial institutions (FIs). However, the banking industry doesn’t like that one bit. “We Specific Concerns .

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CFO News

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das highlighted the need for reforms in the international financial system to address challenges faced by emerging economies and to adapt to the evolving global economic landscape.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Guo Shuqing, the former head stock market regulator in China, has been appointed as chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, replacing Shang Fulin, who was forced to retire after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 65. He arrived at the China Banking Regulatory Commission on Friday (Feb.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 10, 2024

György Matolcsy, governor of Hungary’s central bank (Magyar Nemzeti Bank), reflects on his second term and speaks about plans to potentially join the euro. György Matolcsy: After the global financial crisis, central banks realized that monetary institutions and policy needed to be renewed.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Global Finance magazine interviewed Brazil Central Bank President Roberto Campos Neto, who has been at the helm since February 2019. In this interview, Campos Neto shares his insights on the global economy, Brazil’s economic outlook, the resilience of Latin American economies, and the importance of central bank independence.

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JULY 19, 2020

Rajnish Kumar, chairman of the State Bank of India , the country’s largest lender, said the resurgence of the coronavirus jeopardizes reform of the financial system, the Financial Times (FT) reported. “If If it were not for COVID, a bank like the State Bank of India would be in a very happy situation,” Kumar told FT. “In

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

India’s central bank is considering allowing payment banks and other finance companies to become lenders. A working group within the central bank is also mulling over whether to allow industrial conglomerates to set up banking units, according to Reuters. In a committee report released on Friday (Nov.

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CFO News

JUNE 30, 2024

Banks intensify scrutiny on new accounts to combat mule activities, adapting to evolving fraud tactics like forming private companies. Vigilant measures include verification visits, latitude data, and washout logic analysis to deter money laundering and digital frauds in the financial system.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

The future of real-time payments is tied closely to cloud banking, and as more FIs migrate in that direction, the manifold benefits of real-time payments are propagating beyond the biggest players. Self-regulating financial systems sound too good to be true – and it’s not quite that simple. Adaptability and Scalability.

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MARCH 19, 2020

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) gave the green light to an application from the FinTech firm Square to create a de novo industrial bank in Utah, the agency said on Wednesday (March 18). Square Financial Services will originate commercial loans to the retailers that use Square for payments.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) late Friday (Jan. 15) announced that it is assessing a $390 million penalty against Capital One for engaging in what it says are “both willful and negligent violations” of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). financial system.”.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

India's central bank wants stricter regulations for big shadow lenders, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The Reserve Bank of India , according to the Friday (Jan. 22) report, wants to prevent events like the collapse of a major financier in 2018 — which continues to have effects on the financial system even now.

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JUNE 29, 2020

FDIC) is considering nixing its quarterly reports of banks in an attempt to modernize the way data is handled. Part of the overhaul could focus on replacing the “call” reports that banks are required to file within 30 days after each quarter, which result in copious 60-page reports with thousands of data fields.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

Thus far, the numbers do not bear out a massive uptake of a business model, that for the stakeholders, is essentially free (There are roughly 38 banks signed on and 5 million users of CoDi, as measured in late 2020). Banks generate more business by enabling payments for merchants. The buyer’s bank validates the transfer.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Why this new book, focusing on central banks and their influence? Nomi Prins: Since the financial crisis, one of the themes in my books is money and power. LP: You place the roots of this trouble in 2008, a year which, you point out, increased the power of central banks. economy and Wall Street.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Gross negligence – or evidence of a battle waged by banks that requires new, high-tech weaponry? To that end, and as reported by BuzzFeed , documents submitted by banks to the U.S. The headlines blare a chorus: Banks are not doing their jobs. In terms of dollar amounts, Deutsche led the pack at $1.3 billion in fines.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

It comes on the heels of an IMF report that raises concerns about growing momentum toward central bank-issued digital currencies (CBDCs). central bank has yet to decide whether to plunge ahead, said that issues need to be vetted, include protecting any new digital currency from cyberattacks, fraud and high-tech counterfeiters.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Twelve years after the housing and mortgage markets’ collapse threw the United States into financial distress not seen since the Great Depression, market watchers are again on the lookout for a possible new banking crisis spawned by upheaval in the U.S. commercial real estate sector. No Quick Fix. The Government’s Response.

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CFO News

JUNE 28, 2023

Scheduled commercial banks' net non-performing assets (NPA) ratio fell to a 10-year low of 3.9 per cent in March 2023, the Reserve Bank of India noted in the latest edition of its Financial Stability Report.

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JULY 18, 2023

Higher interest rates raise risks for non-bank financial institutions globally, said Moody’s recently. Given higher interest rates and lower growth, distress in the largely unrated non-bank financial institution (NBFI) sector globally could have spillover credit impacts on many other sectors, the credit rating agency noted.

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MARCH 13, 2020

ICICI Bank in India has announced it will initiate a rescue deal with Yes Bank to the tune of up to 10 billion rupees ($135 million), according to Reuters. Yes Bank is India’s fifth-largest private bank. Yes Bank had been struggling to offload a number of bad loans.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is looking at making corporate supply chains digital, a report from Pakistan Today stated, with an eye toward more financial inclusion. “It It is the overarching aim of the State Bank to ensure a safe and secure financial system," said SBP Deputy Governor Sima Kamil at a web conference, per the report.

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JULY 21, 2020

Open banking is appealing to financial institutions (FIs) and regulators in many markets, even as the pandemic sweeps across the world. Regulators in other regions, including Latin America, are also shaping and announcing plans to enable open banking and better support digital financial systems.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Many consumers move to new countries to pursue economic opportunities, but adjusting to these locations also requires learning the ins and outs of new financial systems — a transition that can be filled with friction. How Rayo Delivers Immigrant-Focused Financial Services. Consumers who move to the U.S.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

China's shadow banking assets will continue to decline on regulators' continued focus on containing systemic risks in the financial sector, said Moody’s recently. Broad shadow banking assets fell by around RMB1.58 Broad shadow banking assets fell by around RMB1.58 from 58.3% Trust loans fell by RMB1.2

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

This week SWIFT, the financial messaging service based in Belgium (and where the acronym stands for the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Communications) said that it would suspend access for at least some Iranian banks. brought back financial and other sanctions against Iran, which in turn came after the U.S.

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MARCH 6, 2020

The Indian government has seized control of its fourth-largest private bank as it organizes a bailout plan and temporarily limits how much depositors can withdraw, according to reports on Friday (March 6). The RBI has capped the withdrawal limit at Rs 50,000 ($676) for 30 days, sending people into a panic and emptying Yes Bank’s ATMs of cash.

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Global Finance

AUGUST 13, 2024

As global investors increasingly prioritize sustainability and ethics, Islamic banking’s alignment with these values positions it as a key player in the burgeoning sustainable finance movement. Islamic banking has also proven resilience in turbulent economic times. Sharia-compliant banks don’t issue interest-based loans.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Danske Bank whistleblower Howard Wilkinson, speaking during a public hearing at the Danish parliament Monday (Nov. 19), contended that a major European bank helped to process as much as $150 billion in suspicious payments, and noted that two U.S.-based based lenders were involved. are investigating $228.5

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

The United States Federal Reserve has passed new rules which lower the liquidity and capital requirements for most banks, as well as easing other restrictions. The Financial Times is reporting that Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell announced the new rules on Thursday (Oct. Smaller banks can now have 0.6

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JULY 1, 2020

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said in a report this week that it will examine how the coronavirus is impacting compliance by financial institutions (FIs). Grappling with such increased demand with fewer resources might make it challenging for banks to satisfy at least some regulatory requirements, such as data privacy.

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JULY 13, 2020

The nation’s banks hoping to use COVID-19 as an excuse to shutter branches or get permanent concessions from regulators better think again, the Financial Times reported. Department of Treasury, told the newspaper he was not prepared to revisit the fundamentals of bank regulations as a result of the pandemic. Brooks told U.S.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Eisenbach, Anna Kovner and Michael Junho Lee, is “Cyber Risk and the US Financial System: A Pre-Mortem Analysis.”. The cyberattack in question could wreak havoc on financial firms. The authors seek to quantify how the attacks may be “amplified” through the financial system. counties, the authors added.

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MARCH 10, 2020

A new challenger bank in the U.S., While fairly common in Europe, challenger banks in the U.S. The bank has its sights set on small businesses, startups and freelancers. The bank features customer service teams that speak several languages, about 300,000 ATMs in its network and what it calls seamless vendor payments. .

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JUNE 26, 2020

More than 10,000 financial institutions (FIs) around the world are implementing or exploring open banking , an emerging trend in the financial industry that allows banks and FinTechs to freely share their data, encouraging collaboration and the development of new customer-facing services. Open Banking’s Data Benefits.

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JULY 1, 2019

The Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) has announced the launch of a BIS Innovation Hub to enable central banks around the world to collaborate on financial technology solutions and innovation. Central banks have a major role to play.

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