Commentary

Banks and financial infrastructure are emerging as an expanding front in geopolitics, writes RUSI’s Tom Keatinge.

New guidance from the FATF has been welcomed by the crypto industry, despite the compliance challenges it presents, writes Nathan Smale at Emfarsis.

Sanctions specialist Eric Sohn explains how wargaming exercises can be used as a risk management tool to game out threats and enhance strategic planning.

Some characteristics of the TBTF challenge are specific to Asia, but these may be intractable from ‘winner-takes-all’ capitalism and national interests, writes industry veteran Jamie Lloyd Evans.

A surge in trading volumes has highlighted the need for brokerage firms to re-engineer their businesses for the future, writes John Omahen at FIS.

As nations across the globe come to terms with understanding and tackling climate change, mandatory reporting of such risks across capital markets could well become the norm.

The European Commission is taking decisive action to fight financial crime by reforming its AML rules and enforcement mechanism, writes Refinitiv’s Che Sidanius.

We need real-time insights into cultural drivers of behaviour rather than backward-looking surveillance systems designed to catch bad actors after-the-fact.

Wirecard will be a compliance and audit training reference point for years to come, says compliance expert Oonagh van den Berg, recounting the warning signs in the years-long lead up to its collapse.

Everledger's Leanne Kemp and Refinitiv's Julia Walker set out the urgent case for cross-border data flow, including to channel finance to sustainable investments.