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My working week usually takes me to 2-3 different countries, and during the course of each day I am fortunate enough to meet with the senior business and technology leaders of Buy & Sell side firm...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published the responses received to its discussion paper aimed at developing regulatory technical standards relating to the obligation to centr...
Between risk management, regulation and compliance, innovation in banking is essentially an iterated combination of the possible, the practical and the permissible. But then those are the ground rules...
I was on the phone with two Fortune 500 companies yesterday to discuss Latin America electronic invoicing. And as I often am, was shocked that they had taken no steps toward implementing Mexico CFDI ...
A chat with Hugues Thiebeauld, UK Security Lab. Manager at UL Security Technologies, on specificity of Certifications for New Payment “With the success of new technology in the payments space largel...
When it comes to customer loyalty, banks have long held a privileged position. Whether it's the difficulty of navigating a raft of red tape, an inability to separate the offering from the vast array o...
Bankers hold hope that one day improvements in technology will grind fraud to a halt. No doubt this is the right target, but worldwide banking fraud currently tops $120bn - more than New Zealand’s GDP...
Last weekend heralded the official end of summertime as the EU put its clocks back one hour. Since most electronic clocks are updated automatically many of us hardly notice the difference, but others ...
I was at a buyside collateral conference a week or so ago (running a workshop), and asked the audience - mainly European asset managers and financial institutions - what their firm was doing about the...
Whether it is starting or managing an online venture, there are lots of misconceptions and myths surrounding ecommerce today. If you think jump-starting an ecommerce website is so easy, you are comple...
Current legacy IT systems have emerged as the most significant barrier for innovation, across banks of all sizes, according to the Efma-Infosys Innovation in Retail Banking Study 2013. Well, not all b...
In recent months we have been exploring ways of extending the working life of systems whilst requiring minimal outlay from our clients. Fortunately there appears to be a solution applicable to some ty...