All posts tagged "Regulation"

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  Blockchain: hype or hope?

  A year ago, people got very excited about blockchain. Then the shine wore off – but David Whitehouse finds that, behind the hype, the technology is beginning to find real

  • Posted November 10, 2019
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  US bill proposes personal liability for company executives over data misuse

  US Democrats are championing a bill which, if passed, would make it a criminal offence for company bosses to lie to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about privacy practices. The

  • Posted October 28, 2019
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  UK regulators: machine learning deployments set to double in financial services

  Research by the UK’s Bank of England (BoE) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found that the country’s financial services businesses are fast deploying machine learning (ML) technology to tackle

  • Posted October 24, 2019
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  The productivity problem: causes, consequences and cures

  Poor productivity hampers wage growth, stoking public dissatisfaction. As delegates heard at the 2019 Global Government Finance Summit, this is a decades-old problem with complex roots – and one demanding

  • Posted September 26, 2019
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  UK joins nations delaying payments security rules

  The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed that the implementation of new rules aimed at boosting the security of payments and reducing fraud will be delayed for 18 months.

  • Posted September 18, 2019
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  EU payments rules look set to take SMEs by surprise

  National financial regulators have signalled that they’ll be flexible in policing the implementation of new EU regulations, due to come into force on 14 September, which are designed to tackle

  • Posted August 7, 2019
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  Spend it wisely, part 1: streamlining the tender process

  With so much public money now spent with private sector suppliers, interest is growing in ways to reform and improve public procurement. In the first of two linked articles on

  • Posted May 7, 2018
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  Singapore launches new cyber security regime

  Singapore is to have a new cybersecurity tsar with wide-ranging powers to seize confidential information and impose penalties under legislation passed by its parliament on Monday last week. The Cybersecurity

  • Posted February 11, 2018
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  70 countries sign OECD tax evasion treaty

  More than 70 countries have signed up to the first international treaty designed to crack down on tax evasion by multinational corporations. The multilateral convention, drafted by the Organisation for

  • Posted June 22, 2017
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  Matt Tee, chief executive of IPSO, UK: Exclusive Interview

  Most governments find press regulation a tricky business; but few struggle as much as the UK, which now has two rival regulators. Matt Ross meets Matt Tee, whose regulator has

  • Posted December 12, 2016
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