The first work week of September is over and we've hit the ground running. Lucy McNulty of Following the Rules brings you nuggets on new bank rules from the outgoing CEO of the UK's Prudential Regulation Authority, Sam Woods. Plus more on non-banks from UBS' Colm Kelleher, why building societies are cautious about embracing open finance, the EU's new AI Act, how to get the most out of Microsoft Copilot, WhatsApp fines from the SEC, the leaked OCC 'Camels' report and instant payments in the EU. #Basel #finregs #banks
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💫 Sam Woods, the CEO of the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority, recently took part in a Q&A with Lucy McNulty for her Following the Rules podcast https://lnkd.in/eKmgy4j5 Read an abridged version of Lucy’s podcast below. 🗣 In a wide and discursive conversation, he addressed Basel 3.1, Growth Duty and a refresh of “supervisory expectations” around climate rules. https://lnkd.in/ew_ydmcn #BankofEngland #UKplc #Basel3 #climate
PRA’s Sam Woods: ‘We will get rid of rules that are harmful to UK competitiveness’ - Banking Risk and Regulation
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💫 Sam Woods, the CEO of the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority, recently took part in a Q&A with Lucy McNulty for her Following the Rules podcast https://lnkd.in/eKmgy4j5 Read an abridged version of Lucy’s podcast below. 🗣 In a wide and discursive conversation, he addressed Basel 3.1, Growth Duty and a refresh of “supervisory expectations” around climate rules. https://lnkd.in/ew_ydmcn #BankofEngland #UKplc #Basel3 #climate
PRA’s Sam Woods: ‘We will get rid of rules that are harmful to UK competitiveness’ - Banking Risk and Regulation
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🚨 The UK’s push towards open finance overlooks risks to financial stability and customer protection, warns research commissioned by building societies, but questions remain about whether ‘mutuals’ actually want to embrace the model. 🏦 Building societies, which largely offer their members mortgages and high-interest savings accounts, have been hesitant about the technology since it burst onto the scene in 2018. 🧊 Read how old-school 'mutuals' remain cool on algorithms taking over customers’ financial decisions... Story by Ellesheva Kissin. https://lnkd.in/d6CUDpe3 Insights from Kerri Sproson, senior strategy lead at Skipton Building Society, Robin Fieth, chief executive at the Building Societies Association, Chris Allen from consultancy Cognizant, Emily Shepperd chief operating officer at the Financial Conduct Authority and James Silk at consultancy firm Woodhurst. #BuildingSocieties #Mutuals #OpenFinance #OpenBanking
Building societies’ open finance fears: reality or reluctance? - Banking Risk and Regulation
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🤖 The European Union has won praise for the first attempt anywhere in the world to regulate AI. But critics say lawmakers are struggling to understand the technology and predict the AI Act, which came into law on August 1, will stifle innovation. 💐 Pioneers evidently get brickbats as well as bouquets. Gabriele Mazzini, who led the European Commission's drafting of the legislation, conceded in August that “the regulatory bar maybe has been set too high”. ⚖️ However, Farnoush Mirmoeini, founder of the regulatory fintech KYC Hub, maintains the EU has got the balance about right. “This isn’t a particularly draconian piece of legislation; it’s about transparency and documentation rather than curtailing new technologies,” she argues. 🚨 “But it is a warning to banks and other financial institutions not to experiment with AI unless they fully understand what they’re doing.” 🔍 Some banks may even be surprised to find themselves in the scope of the new laws. 📜 Critically, the AI Act applies both to technology developers and those, like banks, who are putting AI to work in their businesses. This includes those simply employing third-party AI applications and those adapting them to build a more sophisticated model. 💸 There are tough penalties for compliance failures, with maximum fines set at the higher of €35mn or seven per cent of the organisation’s total worldwide annual turnover. 👀 Read more below. Story by David Prosser https://lnkd.in/eQeYPeE5 #AIAct #AI #Banking #BankingIndustry
Has the EU’s AI Act set the regulatory bar too high? - Banking Risk and Regulation
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💼 Will Microsoft’s $10bn investment in artificial intelligence pay off? The tech giant’s Copilot — an AI companion that performs resource-intensive tasks — is crucial to its success. 🏦 Popular with banks and financial institutions, Copilot acts as a virtual assistant which enables users to speed up work processes. ⚖️ It arrives as compliance teams face intense pressure to navigate supervisory demands with job cuts, hiring freezes and outsourcing leaving their departments increasingly under-resourced. 📊 A recent study from ORX, the world’s largest operational risk association, reveals that 75 per cent of 26 of the world’s biggest banks and insurers now use external GenAI applications in their operations. The most popular tool? Microsoft Copilot. 🌐 While there are a host of multiple companies and regtechs offering AI tools, Microsoft’s dominance in the software market makes Copilot a major player. 🛠️ Below, Kyle Hill, chief technology officer at digital transformation company ANS Group, explains his experience of how Copilot supports risk management and compliance teams across various divisions. https://lnkd.in/e_2dtXN7 #MicrosoftCopilot #Copilot #Microsoft #Banking
Unlocking the potential of Microsoft Copilot - Banking Risk and Regulation
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📲 US regulators are targeting smaller investment and boutique banks in a second wave of enforcement actions for off-channel communication violations. But a handful are fighting back. 💸 Some 26 financial institutions, including RBC Capital Markets, TD Securities and Piper Sandler, were collectively fined $470mn in mid-August for failing to maintain and preserve records of communications on platforms like WhatsApp and iMessage. 🔍 This crackdown, following a 2022 blitz that levied $1.8bn in fines on Wall Street giants such as Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, marks a significant expansion of regulatory oversight. Smaller firms, which traditionally lack the resources to comply with stringent regulatory demands, now face heightened scrutiny and considerable financial penalties. ⚠️ “The feeling, for smaller firms generally, is that: ‘We’re small, so the SEC will never come to us’,” says Bill Simpson of Hearsay Systems. “Those smaller firms need to understand that rules are not size-specific.” 🛡️ Lawyers and industry experts argue that the regulators’ actions underscore the broader systemic issue of underinvestment in compliance programmes at these smaller banks. 📊 Brian Corbin of QuisLex says: “The problem is not a lack of clarity from regulators; it’s up to these firms, regardless of their size, to implement effective compliance strategies.” ✍ Story by Giovanni Legorano. Read more below. https://lnkd.in/e5myvRVm Further insights from Christina Zaroulis Milnor, an attorney with Mincey Bell Milnor. #WhatsApp #OffChannel #Banking #BankingIndustry
Boutique banks challenge SEC over WhatsApp penalties - Banking Risk and Regulation
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💦 A leak from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in July revealed that half of large US banks are seen to have an inadequate grasp on operational risk, from cyber controls to employee blunders and lots in between. Big banks didn’t come off so well in the leak, but neither did the OCC, writes Stephen J. Scott of Starling. 🤫 What the OCC calls ‘confidential supervisory information’ is meant to be kept secret; the disclosure of such information is viewed as theft of government property and is a punishable offence. The leaked CSI thus provides a rare glimpse into the priorities and practices of a principal US banking regulator and reveals where these fall short. 📐 My conclusion? Our current system fails to provide objective measures on how to assess ‘management quality’ and, worse, an insistence on secrecy assures that supervisory subjectivity remains incontestable. Sceptics suggest that regulators like it this way. 🛠 But perhaps they simply lack tools that allow them to put quantitative metrics to qualitative components of risk and the management thereof? 👀 Read more of Stephen's insights below https://lnkd.in/eeFVDJzZ #OperationalRisk #RiskandCompliance #ConductRisk #USbanking
Leaked OCC ‘Camels’ report puts bad policy on public display - Banking Risk and Regulation
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💳 All payment service providers across Europe will be required to receive and send instant payments by January 9 and October 9, 2025, respectively, under a new initiative, the SEPA Instant Payments Regulation, writes Kjeld Herreman of RedCompass Labs. ✍ The European Commission clarified the fine print in July. Dealing with 200-plus questions across 82 pages, the document provides much-needed insights on several pressing issues for the industry and addresses major changes and challenges facing PSPs. ⚡ Here are five things you need to know to stay compliant. Read more below. https://lnkd.in/eCZGN5zs
When guardians of the banks behave badly - Banking Risk and Regulation
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My latest article for Banking Risk and Regulation. On the challenge of being an auditor and the expectation to detect fraud. Who’d be an auditor nowadays? It’s a tougher role than ever. Plus a few suggestions.
🔢 As a trainee external auditor more than 25 years ago, it was drilled into me that it was not my role to detect fraud per see, writes Jennifer Geary. 👩🏫 We needed to provide “reasonable assurance” that the accounts were free of material misstatement, whether caused by fraud or other irregularities, but not necessarily to detect any and all fraud itself. That was — and is — the responsibility of company directors. 🚨 Obviously, if in the course of our work, we uncovered fraudulent activity, we had an obligation to report it. Our core focus though, was on whether the accounts presented a true and fair view of the company’s affairs. 🤔 However, recent corporate failures and a series of fraud scandals have challenged the expectations of auditors, both internal and external. This has prompted a degree of soul-searching by the accounting profession on how far it needs to go to increase accountability, and what can be done to restore public trust. 👀 Read below Jennifer's seven tips for auditors to meet growing expectations. https://lnkd.in/e5BDa_w8 #audit #auditor #auditors #internalaudit #externalaudit
Who would want to be an auditor now? - Banking Risk and Regulation
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