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Below we examine most common mistakes in scorecard development, and explain how to use them for most precise borrower rating and segmentation. Scorecards provide a set of weights assigned to character...
Let me begin with a disclaimer. I believe that what I'm about to tell you is true, but have no way of proving it. Apparently, a grocery superstore in the U.K. has become so adept at mining transaction...
Trading stood still on more than 200 companies Monday, as a server kept the New York Stock Exchange from publishing quotes for most of the day. Taken alone, this seems like a technical glitch. But com...
T+2 settlement looks like it’s on its way to a market near you in the next few years and although I accept that in many markets its not much of a problem in some financial instruments in domestic ...
I know it's strange to be blogging about branch banking, of all things. But, just when I'm ready to write off branch banking for good, I hear of some development that makes me sit up and take notice....
When building a consumer mobile service, the initial focus is on working toward a successful launch, meeting deadlines and ensuring the system works properly for the “grand opening,” the press release...
“There’s a tendency to admire the problem” – I heard this at a conference recently and thought that it was a great expression to capture the way we tend to deal with new regulations. FATCA is one of t...
In my line of work I get emails such as this one: “Hi Robert, I’m not sure if you saw what had happened on my Facebook page last night, but someone stole my cell phone while I was at a concert, and po...
Ever seek out information online and end up somewhere you never meant to go? I’m not talking about some website that didn’t have what you were looking for, I’m talking about a website that you REALLY ...
One of the most hotly contested topics of 2012 has surely got to be the Native versus HTML5 debate. I can understand why. We live in a world surrounded by screens. Different size screens for differ...
New products, new channels, massive technological change and all bundled up into two major releases each year by the card schemes, well, as it says in each closing episode of Frasier – ‘What is a boy ...
In this article, I focus more on the issues faced with Nota Fiscal for Services when looking at the compliance tasks from an Account Payables point of view. Remember that Service invoices are handled ...