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EBAday 2013 is approaching fast and the community is gearing up to discuss again the challenges that banks and their payments and infrastructure providers are likely to face in the future. As 2013 beg...
With settlement cycles shortening in Europe and in the USA, there is quite a debate going on in the market as to the best form of post-trade matching. Financial Services firms on both buy and sell-sid...
It seems to me that the Industry is split between the benefits or not, of high frequency trading (HFT) and it’s a polarisation which is so concerning that Sir John Beddington, UK Government Chief Scie...
The explosion in members of social media sites shows no sign of slowing down and with Twitter now well established and introducing further expansion, the time may soon be with us when all the world’s ...
Collateral liquidity is causing huge concerns at the moment and this could really move towards the top of the industry to do list by this time next year. OTC is very likely to suck even more liquidity...
Most market experts agree that putting OTC into central clearing is a bad idea born from good intentions, but terrible knowledge of market operations and how to reduce risks. To the politician and the...
E-identity and electronic payments are two sided markets. Meaning: they serve two distinct groups of customers. Payments are about payers and payees and e-identity is about respectively users and rely...
The EBA is keen to get community input on the EBAday topics for 2012 and invite bankers, corporate treasurers, and infrastructure and service providers to provide their suggestions and feedback in the...
Just when you thought payments couldn't stir up a bit of intrigue, the payments space gives us a juicy bit of M&A love triangle drama worthy of the cheesiest, Susan Lucci-top billing, daytime soap...
All banks benefit from improvements to the payment market’s efficiency. This is where experienced software professionals can help the payments community achieve more in less time, particularly in comp...
Having just returned from EBA Day in Madrid, I think that the 600+ delegates, exhibitors and organisers, would agree it was a roaring success, with only one slight cloud on the horizon - WiFi. Why...
The need to develop new customer propositions has become more important recently because of the new market entrants that many claim are eroding the traditional bank’s business in the payments space. I...