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Higher interest rates raise risks for non-bank financial institutions

Future CFO

Higher interest rates raise risks for non-bank financial institutions globally, said Moody’s recently. Given higher interest rates and lower growth, distress in the largely unrated non-bank financial institution (NBFI) sector globally could have spillover credit impacts on many other sectors, the credit rating agency noted.

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Bank Of England Hires Accenture To Revamp Payments System With Eye On Digital Currency

PYMNTS

The Bank of England (BoE) is pushing ahead with an overhaul of a key part of the United Kingdom’s financial payments infrastructure. The new system, slated to debut in 2022, will also have the capability to handle a central bank digital currency (CBDC), such as a digital pound, CoinDesk reports.

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FinTechs, FIs Uniting Over Distributed Banking For Disbursements

PYMNTS

Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards recently told PYMNTS that “Historically, banks have viewed FinTechs through an ‘us versus them’ lens — and rightly so, because, in so many cases, the banks were disintermediated or relegated to become ‘dumb vaults’ for the FinTechs they partnered with. Challenge And Opportunity For Lenders.

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Bitcoin Daily: Caymans Introduce Digital Asset Regulatory Framework; Reserve Bank Of Australia To Test CBDC; Huobi Expands Support For Visa And Mastercard

PYMNTS

The financial ministry expects to kick off phase two, regarding licensing requirements, in June 2021, the release stated. Their research will begin with a proof-of-concept for a CBDC operated on distributed ledger technology (DLT) to test the proposed coins’ use cases in payment settlements, the release stated.

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Key Insights from the IMF Global Financial Stability Report

E78 Partners

Today’s global financial landscape is fraught with high inflation, geopolitical risks, and a shifting economic environment. These factors have tested the resilience of the financial system and posed significant challenges for corporate financial leaders.

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What is a Bailout?

Barry Ritholtz

Silicon Valley Bank depositors made whole; Credit Suisse counter-parties saved; First Republic bondholders protected — are these bailouts or something else? This is the government financially rescuing people despite—or perhaps because of— their own enormous recklessness and incompetence.” Were these people “bailed out?”

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Anti-Money Laundering Practices

VCFO

Money Laundering Prevalence and Practices When bad actors possess large sums of cash that they want to place into the financial system without raising flags, money laundering techniques such as “structuring” are used. Financial institutions that fail to do so, whether knowingly or unknowingly, face hefty penalties.