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This second meeting of the ECRI Task Force on FinTech places the focus on the most adequate level playing field to ensure a successful digital transformation and on the opportunities and risks of use of alternative...

To review these issues and consider the challenges of transaction banking, the seminar will discuss the role transaction banking plays in serving the real economy, the current regulatory agenda and the new perspectives transaction banking could give to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and vice versa, in terms of finding a level playing field.

In the past fifteen years, remittances have largely outpaced global development aid. Their amount has also increased significantly within the EU, reaching €31.2 billion in 2010. The event chaired by Staffan Jerneck (CEPS) focused on the specifics of remittances in the EU’s single market, most importantly on challenges ahead to achieve higher efficiency.

With the electronic payments market growing rapidly, the European legislators are facing a challenge in promoting market integration without stifling the needed innovations.

In a context of rising competition and increasingly exigent consumers, established banks and newcomers are using enabling digital technologies to develop new products, processes and...

Offering payment solutions is high risk – money movement always was and always will be.

As revealed by the study on FinTech recently completed by CEPS-ECRI for the European Commission DG FISMA, the number of technological options for consumer authentication in payments is increasing at a steady pace and has vast implications for the KYC (know-your-customer) and AML (anti-money laundering) processes.