Entries for 'Digital Finance'
December 2, 2020
Catherine Parry, Founder and CEO of DeepView, outlines the key trends in social media security and online surveillance technologies that have emerged through the COVID ‘Work From Home’ era.
November 13, 2020
As we near the end of the year, we want to reflect on some of the key themes and priorities coming out of our 2020 Annual Membership Meeting. We have attached a summary of what we feel are the key takeaways from the meeting.
November 12, 2020
FRT once again joins forces with CQ Roll Call’s FinTech Beat podcast, as we exchange our key takeaways from across the IIF Annual Membership Meeting, the IMF & World Bank annual meetings, and DC FinTech Week, with FinTech Beat host, Professor Chris Brummer of Georgetown University.
November 6, 2020
The November 3, 2020 election featured a series of such referenda, including four that relate to data and digital policy topics.
November 5, 2020
Ivo Jenik of the World Bank’s Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) discusses the opportunities and critical dependencies for digitalization to support greater financial inclusion, and key learnings for the application of regulatory sandboxes.
November 3, 2020
With the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in October, a series of official sector reports were released on various digital finance topics.
October 26, 2020
This briefing note summarizes some of the key digital finance themes that emerged throughout the Annual Membership Meeting, focusing on six main topical themes that surfaced in various discussions during the weeklong virtual event, including customer-centricity, cross-border standardization, regulatory frameworks, digital identity, ethical use of data, and artificial intelligence.
October 21, 2020
With the criticality of Digital Identity underlined by the pandemic and recent economic shifts, we discuss the opportunities to support SMEs in the digital economy and promote financial inclusion, and the importance of enabling interoperability.
October 6, 2020
This briefing note summarizes some of the key themes from the IIF Digital Interchange: The Global Dialogue on Digital Finance, a virtual event which brought together leading executives, specialists, and policymakers to discuss the economy of tomorrow.
October 1, 2020
On September 24, 2020, the European Commission published a package of digital finance strategy and legislative proposals.
October 1, 2020
Looking beyond ‘Open Banking’, we discuss Australia’s multi-sectoral Consumer Data Right (CDR) with Dr Liming Zhu of the national science agency CSIRO, looking at the potential extension of open data principles to other consumer sectors.
September 28, 2020
This briefing note summarizes and captures some reflections from the very thought-provoking remarks from David Hardoon, Senior Advisor for Data and Artificial Intelligence at Union Bank of the Philippines, during the IIF Digital Interchange: the Global Dialogue on Digital Finance.
September 24, 2020
This briefing note on digital inclusion examines the use of digitalization, digital identity, and changing infrastructures to promote a more inclusive economy.
September 18, 2020
The economy has been adapting and digitalizing rapidly in response to COVID-19, both in financial services and beyond. IIF economists and digital finance experts look forward at what this means not only in financial services but also for SMEs to keep pace with tech firms in a competitive eCommerce environment.
September 17, 2020
The first in a series of IIF briefing notes on data ethics, this note outlines useful case studies and practical strategies and techniques that financial services firms can implement to help ensure the ethical use of data in a rapidly digitizing world.
September 9, 2020
This IIF member briefing note identifies key issues in a number of the current and emerging proposals, on a key topic that will merit ongoing monitoring.
August 20, 2020
Where COVID-19 has forced radical changes, it has also removed many of the barriers that have plagued previous digital transformation effort. The IIF and Deloitte explore this as part of our Realizing the Digital Promise series, with industry experts Ulku Rowe (Google Cloud), Jaco Grobler (First Rand Bank) and Andres Wolberg-Stok (Citi).
August 6, 2020
BBVA’s Head of Digital Regulation and Trends (and former IIF secondee) Pablo Urbiola returns to FRT, discussing how the competitive landscape in financial services has evolved with digitalization, and where policymakers need to keep pace with ongoing developments.
July 27, 2020
With COVID-19 ushering the increased digitalization of the economy and placing an increased emphasis on Digital Identity, Rod Boothby (Global Head of Identity at Santander) and Don Thibeau (Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation) visit FRT to discuss an important initiative for enabling online trust.
July 15, 2020
The IIF has provided comment on the FSB consultative document Addressing the regulatory, supervisory and oversight challenges raised by “global stablecoin” arrangements, published on April 14, 2020.