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Predictions for Fraud and Payments in 2021

For online retailers, it may have felt like every day in 2020 was Black Friday. Consumers massively turned to only shopping behavior, resulting in booming digital payment transactions. Together with these increased volumes, come new fraud patterns who will prompt merchants to realise that they’ve outgrown their current fraud and payment tools. PSD2 and more […]

08/01/2021

ESG and Non-Financial Analysis

1. TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE FINANCE If the “return” aspect has always been predominant when it comes to investing in financial assets, there are of course other criteria that motivate investors to invest money. Amongst these other criteria, sustainable finance, SRI[1] or ESG[2] criteria are considered increasingly important. The latter refers to the three essential factors for […]

08/01/2021

The challenges of the financial industry after covid

By now, all economists agree on the economic turbulence that is heading our way, already today but even more once the covid19 pandemic is over. Credit insurer Euler Hermes expects at least 23,000 bankruptcies in Belgium until the end of next year. That is almost an increase of 10% compared to the pre-crisis situation. As […]

17/12/2020

Benefits of Open Banking

Benefits of open banking have taken on a new significance since the COVID-19 crisis. Operational resilience will not be enough for banks to thrive in a world with changing and ever increasing customer needs and customer demands. Fostering partnerships with FinTechs and embracing the potential of open banking can deliver creation of new services and […]

17/12/2020

EU banking watchdog calls for single set of anti-money laundering rules

A directly binding single EU regulation would stop national practices that have had a significant adverse impact on preventing the financial system from being used for ML/TF purposes, the EBA said in a statement. https://mobile-reuters-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSL8N2G73JK

17/12/2020

EU response to COVID crisis

2-minute read interview with the Executive Vice President of the European Commission on the EU response to the Coronavirus crisis. One of the quotes: “Capital markets and the Capital Markets Union will be fundamental for the economic recovery. More than ever, companies need to be able to access a broad choice of alternative sources of […]