What’s on the table?

NFU News 2016-04-26NFU News What’s on the table for the NFU Secretariat? A lot as usual, but among other things the NFU Secretariat is currently preparing a draft response to the European Commission consultation on whether to move forward with making EU’s transparency...

New proposal from the Basel committee

NFU News NFU News On March 24, The Basel committee on Banking supervision released the consultative document “Reducing variation in credit risk-weighted assets – constraints on the use of internal model approaches”. The Basel committee proposes that banks no longer...

Regulation of Fintech is coming closer

NFU News NFU News In February this year, Financial Stability Board (FSB) announced in a letter to G20 central bankers and finance ministers that FSB would start to assess the possible impact of Fintech on the stability of the financial sector. In late March, global...

Balancing ethics and compliance

NFU News 2016-04-07NFU News The recent leak from a Panama law firm tops the headlines in newspapers across the globe. Several Nordic banks occur in the leaked material though the extent and nature of their involvement remains to be seen. Despite this, some banks...

The future of financial advice

NFU News 2016-03-31NFU News Digitalisation is certainly a hot topic, and the technological change that comes with it can create new opportunities for both customers, employees and financial institutions to develop the financial sector to meet future saving and...