Scary Spear-Phishing Attack

On Wednesday, November 27, 2019 I experienced a scary spear-phishing cyber attack. Emotionally I was [...]

A New Tool to Measure a Bank’s Risk of Failure

A recent paper argues that despite the revisions to the Basel capital framework (Basel III/IV), [...]

The Beginning of the End for the Dollar?

The weakening of the dollar and the end of its dominance of the global financial [...]

Reflections on the 2019 SEACEN Policy Summit

This year’s SEACEN Centre Policy Summit in Kuala Lumpur in mid-June was on the very [...]

Climate Change as a Prudential Risk for Central Banks and Regulatory Authorities

Once policy-makers accept climate change as a prudential risk, several options are open to them, [...]

Facebook’s Libra: Thoughts from a Regulatory Perspective

So, the white paper on Libra has finally been released, and it’s capturing headlines all [...]

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Emerging Cyber Threats to the Financial Sector

Technology has given birth to a new era in banking that brings efficiency gains for [...]

What’s Done is Done: Economic Payment Finality in the Blockchain – Part 2

While Auer argued that second-layer solutions such a “Lightning Network” can improve the economics of [...]