Governance, Regulation & Compliance

Trade wars, a pandemic and heightened regulation are making KYC processes a priority and spurring institutions like Swift and the Fed to standardize them.  

Quintessential Capital Management Managing Partner Gabriel Grego explains why his much-maligned “short activism” is good for investors and markets.

Wirecard’s scandalous collapse exposes the weakness of a single EU financial market that leaves regulatory supervision to the member states.

The 2008 crisis highlighted the role of company CFOs; the pandemic is highlighting the role of HR.

Over half a dozen candidates are vying to succeed Roberto Azevêdo as head of the World Trade Organization.

German fintech Wirecard collapses amid fraud allegations.

The IMF expects the global economy to contract about 3% this year, which would be the deepest one-year decline since the 1930s. 

With a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University, the 35-year-old was appointed to the cabinet of president Martin Vizcarra last October.

Azevêdo leaves behind a mixed legacy and his successor faces huge challenges.

The new prime minister’s resolve to tackle runaway government salaries faces an early test.

Tiff Macklem, a former senior deputy governor at the Bank of Canada as well as a former dean of the Rotman School of Management, took the top spot at the bank on June 3.

Viral V. Acharya, C.V. Starr Professor of Economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, speaks with Global Finance about the fallout of the coronavirus epidemic.

How governments and banks huddled to keep liquidity and connectivity up as the pandemic hit the world economy.

Many central banks have cut interest rates to zero or less and the crisis is just beginning.

Banks are rushing to mitigate the economic impact of Covid-19. Some systems are better prepared than others.

Andrew Bailey's had to deal with an unprecedented economic and public health crisis on day one of his new job.

Developing nations finally become developed nations, at least on paper.

Local taxes and other government services can now be paid using the cryptocurrency.

Protecting intellectual property rights pays off for everyone in a country.

Corporate spying leads to regime change at a major European bank.