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Lawmakers have hurled a smattering of new regulations against the financial industry over the last decade, forcing them to up their reporting efforts or risk facing fines and other sanctions.

After New Year’s Eve, Britain can arguably create its own rules for the financial sector. One executive is now arguing this is an opportunity too good to miss.

Financial services firms must deal with various risks. However, some are more difficult to handle than others.

Digital currency providers have a new set of rules to comply to if they want to do business in Estonia.

More than 50 central banks around the world are working on digital currency projects. However, the former head of Banque de France is sceptical.

The capital markets platform iSTOX may have become the first one-stop digitised securities issuance, custody and trading platform to be approved and licensed by a major regulator after graduating from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)'s Fintech Regulatory Sandbox.

One of the four biggest Australian banks is facing some huge challenges. Not only is Westpac accused of having breached anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) regulations, but it is now also dealing with a smattering of lawsuits.

Over £1.3bn could be saved by people in the UK if credit card companies altered their approach to customers who have been in debt for 36 months or more.

The financial crisis pushed the US congress to introduce the Dodd-Frank Act to avoid a similar collapse in the future. Now the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has taken another step towards ensuring the evolution of derivatives and swap execution facilities (SEF).

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) increased its activities in 2019 and market stakeholders think this is just the beginning.