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Archive for: May, 2012

Arturo Hernandez - SunGard - Parsippany, New Jersey | 31/05/2012 | 2001 views | 1 comment

Taking the Pain Out of Collection Claim Processing Part I

Most credit managers or directors manage multiple collection agency relationships for their B2B collections, yet the process of managing these relationships can be highly manual and complex creating lack of efficiency and transparency for both the company and agency. For many companies I come across, the placement of claims with a collection agency... Tags: Risk & regulation

CJ Wimley - SunGard - Parsippany | 31/05/2012 | 1842 views | 2 comments

Risk-based Collections Part IV: Collections Prioritization

In Part I of my Risk-based Collections blog series, I described the differences between Judgmental and Statistical Scoring models. In Part II, I discussed which scores are best for managing existing credit lines. In Part III, I described which scores are best for new application credit risk evaluation. In Part IV, I will describe how corporation... Tags: Risk & regulationGroup: Treasury Management

Karl Rieder - GFT - London and Barcelona | 31/05/2012 | 5613 views | 2 comments

What's the Future of Mobile Banking?

On Tuesday I chaired the Future of Mobile Banking conference held in London. It was a great event, with a wide variety of highly qualified speakers and some very smart debate on topics including mobile banking, usability, innovation, and m-payments. What made the conference so compelling was that it came at a particularly interesting time. Mobile ... Tags: Mobile & online, Retail bankingGroup: Finance 2.0

Neil Burton - Earthport - London | 31/05/2012 | 2371 views | 1 comment

Transparency in Payments

The ability to track parcels through every step of their journey has been with us for decades. Shouldn’t we be able to do the same for international payments? Why is transparency in international payments so elusive? Moving money internationally is a murky business. That isn’t to imply any wrongdoing, more that the processes are somet... Tags: Payments

Steve Grob - Fidessa - London | 31/05/2012 | 2046 views

You pays your money, you takes your choice

Nice to see the row over Europe’s consolidated tape has been given a good old stir by BATS Chi-X as the market was at risk of subsuming to apathy. The problem is that whilst everyone wants a consolidated tape, they want it for different reasons. The point that BATS Chi-X is making is that the fees being charged by incumbent exchanges are simp... Tags: Dealing rooms, Trade execution