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The recent announcement from BATS Chi-X Europe that it intends to list Turkish stocks got the phones ringing here at Fidessa Towers. Both local Turkish brokers and pan-European houses wanted to know ...
The increase in corporate mobile device use, fuelled by better technology and trends like Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and enterprise focussed apps, means there are many more ways in which a business ...
Last month, industry watchdog, Financial Fraud Action UK released some worrying figures about how online banking fraud has increased by 71% over the past year. Phishing attacks are amongst the most
Introduction: Apple has recently launched its iPhone 6 with Apple Pay with much enthusiasm and fan fare. Almost every media house on the planet has covered the launch extensively and some of the top i...
In a recent speaking engagement I said part of my role as CXO was “keeping my finger on the pulse of the rapidly changing FinTech world”…I qualified the statement by saying it was “hard”…like drinking...
Modern correspondent banking - the process where one international bank conducts business transactions and facilitates wire payment transactions on behalf of another bank - is one of the main facilita...
It’s not uncommon for data management projects to result in 15-20 siloed systems being retired. And we could extrapolate that figure for global projects. With so many systems in so many territories i...
For anyone who goes online, it’s impossible to hack-proof yourself, but not impossible to make a hacker’s job extremely difficult. Here are three things to almost hack-proof yourself. Two-factor aut...
Over recent years, agile new players have entered the in-store payments space, bringing new innovations that offer merchants more competitive, advanced solutions. For example, terminal providers are r...
The introduction of Apple Pay created excitement throughout the payment world. Will the Apple behemoth disrupt the payments game? Will consumers and merchants embrace it as they have all other Apple i...
The Economic Cold War or Financial Cold War has begun slowly over the past several years and the current administration has added fuel to the fire. China and Russia both know it would be extremely dif...
I'll be brief in setting the scene, because we've heard it all before; the last 5 years were all about taking cost, risk and leverage out of the Financial Markets business - the crash diet for the bin...