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An SMS arrived from Barclays this morning. "Make sure you upgrade AND LOG IN [sic] to the latest version of the Barclays Mobile Banking app BEFORE [sic] you install iOS7". Guess what! Too la...
Does the banking sector really need more regulation than it already has coming? A UK IT trade body is proposing 'enforceable infrastructure standards' after an IT disruption in one of the country's pr...
All business activities come with an element of risk, whether it’s strategic or operational failures, financial failures or even environmental disasters. Risk comes in all forms and affects all areas ...
Regulators and exchanges continue to scratch their heads over how to protect financial markets from the dangers that are inherent in automated trading. The potential exposure to market distortions and...
You need to service customers and employees on mobile devices such as browsers, tablets and smartphones with live, dynamic information. But within the financial services industry (amongst many other i...
PaySwarm has the potential to fundamentally change the way payments are made online. But why is this one different from the umpteen other funky web based payment innovations? Firstly, it is free. O...
The Macroeconomic Assessment Group on Derivatives (MAGD) which comprises financial and economic modelling experts from central banks and other authorities has published a report on the macroeconomic i...
Wednesday. Sibos fatigue is setting in for most normal people but the Standards Forum is still going strong. Andrew Muir, still basking in the glory of his triumphant rendition of Happy Birthday, mi...
Last day. Are you still in one piece? Ask me again tomorrow. The standards forum wraps up Sibos 2013 with another full agenda. Prof. Poppe, who has really put a shift in this week, gets the day off ...
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published policy recommendations to strengthen the oversight and regulation of the shadow banking system following consultation in November 2012. The “shadow b...
An efficient and effective trade finance market is vital to a country's prosperity and to the survival of thousands of individual companies in the supply chain, but it is an incredibly clunky, paper-b...
The FCA has updated its Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) web pages to: set out the out the supervisory co-operation arrangements with 42 different non-EEA authorities; and inclu...