By Alisha Houlihan for AMLi
European Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Stability and Capital Markets Union, Mairead McGuinness has labelled recent geopolitical events as a “wake-up call” for the financial sector.
Speaking at the European Conference of Banking and Financial Services, Commissioner McGuinness said the current crisis with the Ukrainian invasion from Russia, has been a “wake-up call about the strategic importance of payments, particularly in times of crisis.”