Tag: brexit
Northern Ireland recruits new Fintech Envoy
Andrew Jenkins, director of mobility data and analytics company Arity, has been announced as the Northern Ireland governments’ new fintech envoy.
Northern Ireland currently boasts...
FCA awards ONPEX transitional passporting rights ahead of Brexit
Multi-currency IBAN accounts ONPEX has secured a temporary permission regime (TPR) by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Under this new temporary permission, ONPEX will...
Vivek Awasthi, Currencies Direct: ‘Future lies in machines collaborating with humans’
Payment Expert recently spoke with Vivek Awasthi, chief information officer at Currencies Direct about how artificial intelligence has impacted the payments industry, what the...
PrePay Solutions secures Belgian e-money licence ahead of Brexit
PrePay Solutions (PPS), a provider of prepaid services and subsidiary of Edenred, has announced the firm has been granted an operational e-money licence from...
BoE report reveals Brexit impact on UK investment and productivity levels
The Bank of England (BoE) has released a new paper delving into the impact of Brexit has had on the UK as a state.
Developed...
Barclays operating with No Deal as the ‘central scenario’
Barclays has written to investors, detailing that its ‘economist team’ believes that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Conservative government have downplayed the economic...
Paul Plewman, CurrencyTransfer.com: Brexit chaos can bring opportunity
In an interview with PaymentExpert at iGB live! Paul Plewman, COO, CurrencyTransfer.com, acknowledged the uncertainty of possible regulatory changes once the UK finally leaves...
UK regulatory body FCA releases 2019/20 business plan
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its yearly business plan for 2019/20, which outlines the regulatory body’s key priorities for the coming year.
In...
Report predicts that London will surpass San Francisco as ‘Fintech’s Capital’
A report undertaken by executive search firm Robert Walters and recruitment technology platform Vacancysoft has predicted that in 2019 London will overtake San Francisco...
CITYUK – Brexit is the number 1 threat to UK Fintech...
A CITYUK report on growing Fintech dynamics and challenges has detailed that UK tech, finance and banking firms will face numerous difficulties attracting top...
