Financial Regulation for the Digital Age

Bojana Nikolic | June 14, 2021

Financial regulation is entering the digital age, converting tools and strategies from analog to digital design. In the next decade, this transformation will reach critical mass and do for regulation what digitization does for everything else—make it better, faster, and…..

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Technologies for market conduct supervision in a new digital era

Bojana Nikolic | April 22, 2021

Last year, as regulators across the world were grappling with the multiple effects of COVID-19 on their economies, one movement caught the attention of many of them: record-breaking volumes of consumer complaints. This trend, consistent in high-income countries such as…..

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Case Management for solving Fin Crime Risk

Bojana Nikolic | February 16, 2021

2019 saw the FCA dishing out the highest level of fines ever, totaling nearly £400m in a twelve-month period. This included hefty penalties relating to anti-money laundering failings. However, in the FCA’s 2019 thematic review the organisation did provide its…..

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Regulators Eyeing Tech To Boost Financial Stability

Bojana Nikolic | February 12, 2021

Enhanced supervisory technology (SupTech) with strong governance and skilled human oversight could well have important benefits for financial regulators around the in efforts to increase economic stability in their nations and around the globe, said a report prepared for the…..

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RegTech: How Technology Can Revolutionize Compliance

Bojana Nikolic | January 13, 2021

Highly regulated industries like the financial services industry have faced ever-increasing regulatory compliance obligations. Technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), that can be utilized to innovate the manner in which these organizations operate can lead to additional challenges for regulatory…..

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The Different Flavors of RegTech and SupTech: How Companies and Regulatory Agencies Are Leveraging Technology to Improve Regulatory Compliance and Supervision

Bojana Nikolic | December 1, 2020

When the calendar turned to 2020, my first thought was about how futuristic the year sounded and what kind of interesting things it had in store. At that time, no one could possibly have imagined that some of those interesting…..

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Global Study Reveals Impact of COVID-19 on FinTech Regulatory Innovation

Bojana Nikolic | October 30, 2020

The World Bank and the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, have jointly published the results of their Global COVID-19 FinTech Regulatory Rapid Assessment Study, which reveals that the priority of FinTech…..

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FinTech, RegTech, and SupTech: A New Paradigm, Simultaneously Promoting Financial Service Innovation While Enhancing Supervisory Effectiveness

Bojana Nikolic | March 7, 2018

First some definitions: FinTech is the application of digital technology like software and hardware to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and scope of financial services. These solutions can be applied to traditional financial services and create opportunities for new services and business models for…..

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