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After the drumming and roaring of the acquisition announcement I haven’t seen or heard anything significant so far. True is that the companies are now working out the hard task of integrating cultures...
Top 5 Reasons Why Companies are Using Brazil version 3.1 to Transition off of on-premise solutions Brazil came out with their latest changes in July 2013 – version 3.1 of the Nota Fiscal process. An...
The ECB published its recommendations for the security of mobile payments last week last week. Although unrelated, this latest set of recommendations shows how Governments and Central Banks (US Federa...
Don’t believe the hype: social media and the finance sector Banks are understandably excited about the prospects offered by social media. There are now 1.4 billion Facebook accounts worldwide, with th...
Adherence to rules and procedures is something investment banks have long been scrutinized for, with regulatory non-compliance being recognized as a prominent failure. For many investment banks, compl...
Quad-Party Clearing – a buy-side focused clearing model – was widely perceived as an innovative solution for the clearing obligation under EMIR (European Market Infrastructure Regulation). The benefit...
Brett King’s recent article on ‘Banking’s new playground’ raises some interesting points as to ‘how Africa will show the way’. Smart phone penetration in Africa is currently less than 15% and projec...
In recent months, since Google has announced the support for Host Card Emulation (HCE) in their latest Android 4.4 KitKat, we have seen a barage of articles and analyses (some in very reputable public...
When protected, sensitive or confidential data is accessed or used by someone without authority, this is a data breach. This can involve any kind of data such as personal health, financial, or busines...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) held the Markets Conference in November in which Martin Wheatley, Chief Executive, FCA, and David Lawton, Director of Markets, FCA, both delivered keynote speeche...
Over the years, my background in IT marketing and product management has brought me close to the subject of how a software should be extended over new channels. I can recall being involved in drawing ...
This is not the part-2 that I promised; rather, it is a quick one to address a question I was asked about the blog I posted last week. The question was, can you define “whopper”? It’s a fair questio...