Tagged: fsb

September 27, 2019 @ 12:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Small businesses are in urgent need of more government support if no-deal Brexit lands on October 321st, according to research from the UK Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). The clock is ticking and the UK still does not have a deal in hand. Meanwhile, it is… Read More

June 7, 2019 @ 11:18 am By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is out with a report on Fintech/distributed ledger technology. Entitled Decentralised Financial Technologies, the document reviews the impact of “decentralization” (IE blockchain and other forms of Fintech) on global financial stability and international regulatory environment. The report is being delivered… Read More

June 2, 2019 @ 9:49 am By Cali Haan  |  

Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors from the globe’s twenty most powerful economies are “expected” to collaborate on creating a global registry of cryptocurrency exchanges when they meet at the G20 Conference in Fukuoka, Japan, in June, Nikkei Asian Review (NAR) reports. G20 government personnel meeting… Read More

April 14, 2019 @ 5:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published a “Crypto Assets Regulators Directory.” The document was recently distributed at the April G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting. The FSB was founded in 2008 as an international body that monitors the global financial system. Part… Read More

December 26, 2018 @ 7:12 am By Cali Haan  |  

If all goes well with current tests, Russian telecom companies will soon be required to implement new content-censoring tech in order to surveil and intercept messages sent on prohibited anonymizing apps like Telegram, BBC Russia reports. The system, which has been being competitively tested by… Read More

July 21, 2018 @ 2:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a report on crypto-assets, including cryptocurrency and blockchain based securities, last week. The document is being presented to the G20. The document is a byproduct of the G20 meeting which took place in Buenos Aires in March. The member… Read More

March 19, 2018 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Stability Board (FSB), the international body that monitors and makes recommendations about the global financial system, has published its assessment of risk in advance of the upcoming G20 meeting which will take place in Buenos Aires today and tomorrow. The FSB is chaired by… Read More

August 3, 2017 @ 3:45 pm By Valentina Ausserladscheider  |  

At the end of June, the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) hosted its second annual conference that saw participants from the world of finance from all over the world. The conference was entitled Navigating the Contours of Alternative Finance and sought to provide a… Read More

June 28, 2017 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has weighed in on the burgeoning Fintech sector of finance. The FSB has been analyzing “financial stability implications” potentially created by Fintech innovation. The FSB says it is specifically seeking to identify “supervisory and regulatory issues that merit authorities’ attention”…. Read More

May 19, 2017 @ 2:12 am By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is an international body that monitors and makes recommendations about the global financial system. Based in Switzerland, the FSB was established in 2009, in part, a response to the global financial crisis that shocked the world. Ostensibly the FSB is… Read More

March 1, 2016 @ 5:14 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The Financial Stability Board seeks to evaluate the potential for systemic risk posed by emerging innovations in financial technology, a move which may mark the beginning of the end to the regulatory advantages enjoyed by fintech firms operating at the fringes of the financial services sector, according… Read More

January 19, 2016 @ 2:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, chief legal officer of crowdfunding platform Seedrs, Karren Kerrigan, and chairman for tax and economic affairs of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), Tony Baron, sat down with Workspace to discuss their 2016 predictions for alternative finance. During the interview, Kerrigan stated alternative finance will… Read More

January 18, 2016 @ 12:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

The National Federation of Self-Employed & Small Businesses (FSB) has released a report that indicates a “growing gap in confidence” between businesses in the North and those in the Midlands and the South. The FSB states businesses in the North risk being left behind. This… Read More

February 25, 2014 @ 11:37 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube has shared some interesting information regarding female entrepreneurs crowdfunding on their platform to raise capital for their companies.  Their reflection was engendered by a recent report by the Federation of  Small Bussinesses (FSB) in the United Kingdom. The FSB’s research indicates there has been… Read More