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What’s my account balance? How can I make a payment this afternoon? And how are my investments doing right now? These are frequently the daily, and sometimes hourly, needs of today’s financial consume...
Banks are continuing to make the mistake of viewing regulation as an exercise in compliance, rather than as an opportunity to implement strategic and business change inside their organisations. This w...
Amid a sea of change, the importance of customer satisfaction to financial institutions remains a constant. The task has never been easy, but the convergence of technological change, cost-cutting, reg...
There has a been a lot of talk about how to trade blocks that are smaller than the LIS waiver but that are still too big to go to regular lit markets. The debate has been ratcheted up by the 4 and 8% ...
In a world where corporate transactions take place around the clock, payment delays are no longer acceptable. How should banks and PSPs prepare for the New Access Model? Since its introduction to the ...
Implementing a Matching Engine application presents a host of challenges. If you're responsible for such a project then you need to give serious consideration to a number of critical system components...
The delays in enacting regulatory mandates for central clearing of FX derivatives highlight an interesting trend—even though clearing remains optional, the industry continues to increase the level of ...
Around the world, the use of cash is being challenged. Scandinavians are perhaps the most radical proponents of change (or, rather, the reduction of change in people's pockets). As of next year, many ...
“Strategy decay” is the idea that by the time investments have been made on large IT implementations and the technology is rolled out, your “new” solutions have already been leapfrogged by the latest ...
Following months of speculation, complete with the token leaks and rumours flying around, Apple finally “gave us the hint” that the latest iPhone is (in all likelihood) going to be released this week....
Disruptive innovation often involves fragmentation and incompatibility… especially in the short-term. Most entrepreneurs focus on solving a specific immediate problem vs. laying the foundation for
It may take 10 or even 20 years, but the bank you know today is going away. For good. It will either reinvent itself from the inside out or simply disappear as a casualty of market forces. Digitisatio...