Flora Coleman has been at Wise as their global Head of Government Relations for nearly four years. This follows a decade of senior political advisory work, including nearly three years as a Special Adviser on legislation to the UK Government. Flora has worked most policy areas but has a particular specialism in European politics and retail financial services. During her career she has helped coordinate and participated in international social action projects in Croatia, Turkey, Bangladesh, and Bosnia.
She played a key role in delivering the Cross-Border payments regulation, pushing for global transparency and to secure a law in the EU which means that from April 2020 the 500 million people in the EU will know what it costs to make an international payment.
In 2019 she was nominated as the fourth most inspirational woman in UK public affairs, and one of the top five standout female policy makers and regulatory experts in fintech.
In January, we highlighted a new European regulation, CBPR2, because it was meant to lower fees for some payments in the EU. Since 15 December 2019, firms are...
Just before Christmas you may have been sent a message from your bank saying they won’t be charging you for making euro payments from non-euro countries like...
Last week, Wise took the Know What You Pay campaign to the streets outside Parliament. We were there to ask them to vote to support a regulation that...
Last week the Conservative Government published their response to the consultation on the Payment Services Regulations. It’s clear to consumers where their...
You have €1,000 which you want to convert into GBP (£). You are given an exchange rate of 0.8671 GBP (£) to the Euro (€). There is an upfront fee of €9,50...
It's a matter of weeks until the Payment Services Regulations could finally end the currency exchange rip off for the 21 million adults who exchanged money in...
In December we wrote about PSD2 (the Second Payments Services Directive) and its importance in bringing fairness to finance.
Well, the UK Government just...