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Nigel Farmer

Data, Data Everywhere, nor any Knowledge to Gain

The management, retention and reporting of huge data volumes is so onerous that many financial services firms are missing out on the value of this data; they are awash in a sea of data with nothing to...

27 Oct 2016
A Finextra Member

SWIFT and the payments roadblock for SME exporters

If you have transferred money to an overseas bank account lately, chances are it was processed by SWIFT. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications’ FIN messaging standard has al...

27 Oct 2016
Alan Jenkins

30 years since the London Big Bang

Does anyone out there remember the Topic Trigger Page, and the day one lunchtime meeting to review performance issues ? I'm glad I'm retired now !

26 Oct 2016
A Finextra Member

Three years on, should banks feel threatened by the UK bank switching initiative?

It has been three years since the Current Account Switch Service (CASS) was launched in September 2013 to give consumers a simple, reliable way of switching current accounts – as opposed to the labori...

26 Oct 2016
A Finextra Member

3 Ways to Digitalize the Client Lifecycle for Wealth Management

In my last blog, we explored the 3 core client lifecycle challenges facing wealth managers – regulatory compliance, operational and technological challenges and client experience impacts. Considering ...

26 Oct 2016
Brett King

The day I realized Fintech was becoming just the same as everything else

I've been in Fintech since before we called it Fintech. Some would say that Fintech has been around for decades, as soon as Bank of America deployed ERMA (Electronic Recording Method of Accounting) in...

25 Oct 2016
Innovation in Financial Services
Ivy Schmerken

Smart New Rules for Smarter Order Routing?

Disclosure is the rage in financial markets regulation and the latest set of proposals relate to order handling rules. Regulators are seeking to boost transparency into the order routing practices of ...

25 Oct 2016
A Finextra Member

To meet complex KYC and Onboarding regulations RegTech needs to be industrial strength

Regtech is being added to the canon of financial technology buzzwords. But what does it offer and how should the industry embrace this concept? This increasingly common term is a subset of the finte

25 Oct 2016
A Finextra Member

Culture of Compliance - Do You Walk the Walk?

A Culture of Compliance…sure we have that. That’s what everyone says. But do you really? It’s not just about talking the talk, but walking the walk too. Maybe you have strong policies and procedure...

25 Oct 2016
David Andrzejek

Brexit means Brexit, but London could keep its fintech crown

For years, London has been the fintech capital of the world. Is that likely to change now that Britain is gearing up to leave the EU before April 2019? While U.S. regulators have struggled to crea

25 Oct 2016
Richard Carter

Why are we more interested in how many steps we take rather than our credit score?

We live in a world where an ever growing amount of us have Fitbits, Jawbones and other tracking devices that are increasingly measuring and comparing our physical performance. We know how many steps

24 Oct 2016
Innovation in Financial Services
Parth Desai

Edging ever closer to the abyss: why AI will reverse this trend

Parth Desai, CEO and Founder of Pelican, discusses why AI is already a fact and not fantasy. He highlights why financial institutions and corporates need to get on board now – or risk getting left beh...

24 Oct 2016

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