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Traditionally banks have run Cash Management as proprietary business with little or negligible participation from other market players. It is one the biggest contributor of Current Account float and h...
I’m often asked by my fellow colleagues, 'what keeps me up at night?', to which I currently reply, 'an uncomfortable bed'. For those of you who have ever had significant home renovation, I know you wi...
When George Osborne announced that newly established challenger banks would no longer be exempt from the 8% tax that applies to the biggest banks, many of those at the helm of these new businesses wil...
World Paper free Day (6th November) encourages businesses to reduce the amount of paper they generate. It’s difficult to imagine that in this day and age businesses still rely on hard copy. Yet that ...
Increasing numbers of UK consumers are downloading mobile banking apps and utilising them for everyday financial transactions, whether checking balances or transferring money between accounts. Researc...
Everywhere you look these days someone, somewhere, is monitoring something; CCTV on the streets, speed cameras on roads, entry and exit cameras in car parks, even your location via your Smartphone App...
If I remember one thing from university it is Pascal’s Wager. Blaise Pascal was a seventeenth century French philosopher, mathematician & writer. One of Pascal’s most famous works was the Pensé
MiFID II is going to boost transparency in financial markets and improve and broaden best execution standards for the buy side, but not everyone is prepared to handle all the data. Last month, the Eur...
Transaction banking has been a major driver of return on equity over the past five years, yet intense competition, changing corporate treasurer expectations and the impact of new regulations are imped...
We are living in the age when everything tends to be in the cloud, mobile friendly and easily accessible. The way many people make money has changed drastically over the last few decades, more and mor...
Or do we? It’s hard to know how the public feels about things these days. A controversial statement in itself, considering social media and the amount of public avenues in which one can air their opin...
The line between sport and business has been blurred for some time now. Sport often borrows analytical elements from corporations and manages their players like professionals, and on the other hand bu...