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On the surface at least, it’s hard to take away positives in the wake of the financial crisis. Yes, it taught us that we have to manage risk better, improve processes and become more transparent. But ...
When I was playing team sports the last piece of advice from the coach was often “Go out there and enjoy yourselves”. The attitude seemed to be if you were having fun then everything else would fall i...
200 individuals were the first to receive credit cards issued by Diners Club in 1950, the brainchild of Frank McNamara. It was the start of a completely new era in personal credit and payments. Americ...
Cloud models in wholesale financial services continue to get a lot of press, but fewer public references regarding value delivered, than you might expect for what many perceive as such a big game chan...
Customers today are more discerning than ever before and expect so much more from their banks. They are looking for positive experiences and expect their needs to be satisfied instantaneously. At the ...
I spend a lot of time in coffee shops writing these days. I don't know why, perhaps many of you have experienced this, but I seem to have a very productive time writing when there is the smell of fr
At this weeks annual corporate actions conference in New York a presentationby Gerrard Bermingham from Information Mosaic extolled the benefits of mobile technology carrying corporate action data to t...
At the recent annual Corporate Action conference in New York this week the hot topic was the significant progress being made by the DTCC and SWIFT with XBRL to standardise Issuer data. The audience wa...
In my previous two blogs I have discussed different areas of manufacturing that financial services firms and vendors could learn from. In this final post in this series, I want to look at Supply Chain...
Interesting piece from Jeremy in the FT yesterday - LSE claims quickest trading speed - that describes the new low latency platform that went live on the LSE's Turquoise MTF last week. Whilst Xavier ...
This blog was created while Mark was working at The Logic Group. As more brands adopt contactless technology, how many consumers and staff at the check-out really understand its benefits and how to us...
OK, it's easy to be cynical - but if all these groups can agree consistent data definitions, and maintain these in the ISO 20022 repository, then it genuinely solves a lot of problems. The varying fo...