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Previously on “Why don’t you become” (here): people put their money in wallets (be those banks, or just stashes). Networks then pierce a hole in these wallets and create a widespread network that all
After a historically brief spell of about 200 years, Asia is once again acknowledged as the economic growth engine for the world. The financial returns of Western multinationals, given low growth rate...
Last Friday, the 17th September, highlighted again the interrelationship between derivatives and equities in terms of fragmentation. The third Friday of the month is associated with futures and option...
For a number of years now, we have seen a reduction in the use of cheque and as such, the Payments Council decided on the closure for cheque clearing by 2018. In our experience, large UK corporates ar...
Living in the Chicago area, I've spent my fair share of time in traffic congestion trying to get to the airport. (Anyone familiar with Chicago ORD will also know that finding a plane that leaves on t...
Despite uncertainty around Basel III – specifically whether banks will have enough capital, and issues regarding their risk and exposure, the legislation doesn’t seem to be as onerous for banks as onc...
How did we do it? The existence of contactless technology in the payments market has been a topic of much discussion and over the last two years we have seen significant progress globally, with many m...
No restructuring is pain free, especially in the complex business of financial services. And in the aftermath of the crisis, the industry has undergone widespread re-jigging through consolidation, mer...
Despite recent news reports that the Basel III liquidity requirements are to be pared back, financial institutions are still facing vast regulatory challenges. They already have to hold more capital
More and more of us are turning to online banking as a convenient way to manage our money. In fact, the UK Payments Administration reports that in the first half of 2009, 22 million adults used intern...
The European Payments Council (EPC) recently achieved its 8th birthday. Back in 2002, the road to SEPA probably looked fairly straightforward - the EPC would develop the payment schemes and frameworks...