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The European Banking Institute has a new managing director and treasurer, following a series of executive changes.

24 April 2020

Brazil’s central bank has launched a data-sharing blockchain platform, in a move that has been touted to facilitate foreign banks setting up shop in the country.

21 April 2020

Sweden’s banks have handed over control of the Stibor benchmark to a New Zealand-based independent administrator, as the benchmark prepares to become fee liable next month.

21 April 2020

HSBC’s Australian arm has disclosed possible anti-money laundering violations to the country’s financial intelligence agency.

21 April 2020

Facebook’s cryptocurrency project Libra has filed for regulatory approval in Switzerland – dropping plans for a Bitcoin-like permissionless system and adding a single-currency coin.

17 April 2020

The World Bank has urged regulators to foster the inclusion of underserved users of the financial system when designing regulatory sandboxes and innovation hubs.

17 April 2020

Efforts to create environmentally sustainable investment products are being hampered by greenwashing and a multiplicity of informal reporting frameworks, securities regulatory association IOSCO has said in a new report.

15 April 2020

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has called on regulators to treat global stablecoins under a “same business, same risks, same rules” approach.

15 April 2020

Major US banks are ramping up for a mass lending effort as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, as the US Federal Reserve chair says there will be “no limit” on the duration of tis financial support during the covid-19 crisis.

09 April 2020

US and Singapore regulators have indicated they will not be following their counterparts elsewhere in the world by asking banks to forgo dividend payments – as the latter issued a series of relief measures in the wake of the covid-19 crisis.

09 April 2020