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My first Temenos’ assignment was in Madrid. It was a very large implementation at a Spanish branch of a big Swiss Bank. Late in the evening, straight after work, most of our team used to have dinner ...
Fear of failure often leads to stagnation, and standing still is a very dangerous ploy in today’s highly competitive Banking market. Whether you are in a saturated market where the competition is to p...
It was Spain's turn this week to host the latest in our series of global Fragmentation Forums. Around 50 of Spain's top financial executives gathered at the Miguel Ángel hotel in Madrid to discuss and...
Aité group has just published the first authoritative report on single-dealer platforms from a leading analyst. It says that "single-dealer platforms are a crucial component of addressing the in...
CESR is now consulting with the industry about what approach should be taken to improving market transparency across the EU. In summary, it would prefer to have an industry-led approach, but if the i...
Much is written and researched on payment service hubs today and the conclusions from this work raise some sound arguments. Modernisation of the core payments technology in a financial institution i...
A specialized financial publication from Geneva, AGEFI, quoted this morning a high executive from Temenos: “The integration has already begun. The strategy is already in place and a more detailed pla...
The over 100 USD m deal (81 cash paid by Temenos and 20m take over debt) was announced early morning by the press, and was extensively commented by the participants of the Financial Summit in Geneva. ...
In my last blog I looked at different revolutions that have impacted the manufacturing industry in the past, and what the payments industry can learn from them, specifically the use of interchangeable...
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) decisions are very strategic but are often marred with significant challenges in bringing the operations and IT systems together post merger. Key challenges are - 1...
The events of 2007-08 brought banking focus back on to cost efficiency, resource optimisation and all the good stuff in between. But, while enjoying the fruits of this labour, how can banks ensure tha...
Consulting firms introduced methodologies, starting with IT-based methodologies, in an effort to codify the key steps in a typical project, thus being able to deploy less experienced resources who, eq...