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In the run up to Sibos an interview on CNBC Europe with UBS Group CEO, Sergio Ermotti, discussing Anti-Money Laundering and Know Your Customer policies caught my attention. Covering AML and KYC, Sergi...
Cloud adoption in capital markets is gathering momentum, led by the increasing acceptance of the cloud by regulators as well as cost cutting at financial services organizations. Indeed, regulators the...
Recent research has found that UK mortgage lenders are bucking the trend when it comes to social media use. At a time when social media is transforming financial services providers’ relationships with...
Banks are dependent upon models of all kinds. This is because reality is much too complex for us to understand well enough for perfect predictions of the future. Models are used as a simplification of...
To achieve MiFID II’s aim of greater transparency, having a proper golden source of instrument data is key for every market participant. Fortunately, under the new rules, ESMA is required to publish a...
I was chatting with some the Reg folks in the office yesterday and the spectre of MiFID 3 came up. Before you all jump off the window ledge there is no official notion of this yet, but when will the r...
Earlier this year the FCA introduced new guidelines to encourage firms to embrace the cloud. While compliance obligations remain paramount, it does open up the pathway for organisations to more effect...
Whenever a technology trend hits the peak of hype cycle, claims that it can even solve world hunger, abound. Evangelists start piling on the benefits that the new technology brings. Blockchain is expe...
Research Disruption? European regulators are pressing to unbundle research payments from executions. Experts say that a regulatory overhaul driven by MiFID II has the potential to disrupt the global r...
The financial services and banking industry has undergone significant change over the last decade, and today, automation is at the forefront of this change. Robotic process automation (RPA) is revolut...
Ever since I have been actively involved in blockchain for the past few months, it has been my endeavor to read and understand more on this subject. There are so many views, news, insights, opinions a...
Although only recently introduced, the trend lines for the adoption of mobile wallet technologies like Apple Pay, Google Wallet and Android Pay resemble those of smartphones—hockey-stick growth curves...