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The European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) is a tricky piece of legislation to get your head around. Luckily, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has now offered some clarity.

From cybersecurity startups to challenger banks, let's take a deep dive into the FinTech companies raising money over the past week.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has made another initiative to protect financial customers, this time by asking payment firms for their insights.

The EU's Securities Markets regulator has called upon listed issuers to clearly outline in their half-yearly financial reports what implications COVID-19 has had on their businesses.

US markets regulator Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has amended the national market system plan governing the consolidated audit trail, the so-called CAT NMS Plan, to make it more transparent and to boost accountability.

COVID-19 has forced a lot of regulators to take special measures to stabilise the market, but some are now removing those restrictions.

On the back of raising $6m in a new funding round, Envelop Risk will grow its cyber and speciality (re)insurance business propelled by proprietary machine-learning and data-driven underwriting.

The deadline for the annual Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and Common Reporting Standard (CRS) submissions is set for Saturday May 31 for UK financial institutions.

The Australian FinTech industry has grown tremendously over the past few years and the minister in charge of the sector expects this to continue past the current crisis.

Two of the UK's biggest regulators have signed an agreement to work closer to together.