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Money, and wanting more of it, is guaranteed to be dominating the mindshare of most Europeans at the moment. Austerity measures are in place and unemployment is embarrassingly high. Times are tough ...
The enormity of global trade is on display this year in Osaka, and it is more evident than ever that payments and trade finance are critical banking services supporting global economic growth. Each da...
One of the big buzzes around Sibos this year has been the Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) and the new ICC rules being released this coming April. It seems everyone is holding their breath for the droppi...
While we never expected the BofE to be thanking the #occupy movement Andrew just drop me a line if you would like some sensible legislation supported. Initial budget was about $1000, 2 people. Protest...
An educational posting from me today on one of the most understated weapons ever unleashed in the counter-fraud world – Big Data Analytics. People often don’t realise that analysing vast chunks of dat...
This blog post is a kind of a walk down the memory lane for me starting from the early days of e-Commerce – think SET protocol to the evolutionary ratification of SSL to be used as the de-facto standa...
Why? Because it is more than just a channel, an interface, another window to customers. Indeed mobile banking has the potential to change the future of banking itself. And the lives of those excluded ...
There is a huge tussle of words going on between the Chairman of SBI and the Deputy Governor of RBI on whether the CRR (Cash Reserve Ratio) is needed in India. Scheduled Commercial Banks are required...
In the commoditized, competitive world of banking, where products and positioning jostle for space, pricing is a key differentiator, even a determinant of survival. Relationship Based Pricing (RBP),...
Meet Joe. Joe is a swaps trader within a small institution that has a straightforward hedging strategy at both the micro and macro level. Being a price-taker, Joe has built and maintained broker relat...
Things I have learned in the first two days here at Sibos in Osaka. I encountered my first musical heated toilet seat; I learned that the ATMs here dispense coins, and I discovered that everything is ...
The enormous and continuing success of i-devices, tablets and smartphones raises the question of how they can best be used to fulfil business strategy. Having the technology is one thing, but using it...