Trump's Crypto Executive Order: A US MiCA ?
President Trump issued an executive order establishing a cryptocurrency working group to develop a federal regulatory framework for digital assets, including stablecoins. This group, led by David Sack...
25 Jan 202524min
DORA Regulatory Mapping and Requirements: A Guide to Compliance
This podcast episode details the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), a regulation designed to bolster the operational resilience of financial institutions and their crucial ICT third-party...
25 Jan 202528min
AI First-Order Risks and Second-Order Risks
The OMFIF report, "What AI Means for Finance: Risks of an Intelligent Financial System," examines the profound impact of artificial intelligence on the global financial system. First-order risks, such...
24 Jan 202516min
Trump's Deregulatory AI Order
President Trump's new executive order dramatically reverses President Biden's approach to AI regulation, prioritising deregulation and rapid technological advancement to maintain US global dominance i...
24 Jan 20255min
Beneficial Ownership Information: A Guide to the Corporate Transparency Act
This episode explains the US Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) of 2021, which mandates beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting for most businesses to combat financial crimes like money launder...
24 Jan 202518min
Supreme Court Upholds Corporate Transparency Act
Both sources report on the Supreme Court's decision regarding the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), a law aimed at combating money laundering. The Court temporarily lifted a lower court injunction blo...
24 Jan 202516min
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill: Impact Assessment
The UK government's Public Authorities (Fraud, Error & Recovery) Bill aims to combat the significant cost of welfare fraud, estimated at £10 billion annually. Key measures include suspending the drivi...
23 Jan 20259min
FCA Review: Money Mule Detection Failures
This episode covers a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) review of UK payment service providers' efforts to combat money mule activity. The review assessed firms' use of the National Fraud Database (NF...
23 Jan 202523min
