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The overhaul of transaction reporting under MiFID II continues unabated in the latest ESMA drafts, with new obligations and data changes still being introduced. Aimed at improving the quality of data ...
The objective of this 3 part series is to examine in brief the barriers and motivators for the key players in India’s (the author believes it has elements that can stand true for any economy that inte...
The biometrics age is upon us. A future sci-fi world of disappearing passwords, the internet of things and the unique human characteristics of our body parts to verify who we are is now actually a re...
Now that I find myself running an accelerator in the FinTech space I get asked a lot of questions. What is the value for the startups? What do the banks get out of it? Are any real projects complete...
The global securities market is worth more than $100 Trillion. Any technology that would add efficiencies to the exchange, settlement and reporting of transactions happening in this market should be w...
From pins and passwords to biometrics and palm vein readers... are we really becoming more secure? We are changing to new ways of identification and data security that are very depending on our physic...
The last decade brought out the importance of service as a differentiator. It is important to ride the technology growth to provide differentiators in products & services. The reference of “Inform...
Out with old risk metric, in with the new. Welcome to Expected Shortfall The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has been revising its market risk framework since 2012. The result of its ‘fundame...
What’s the story? Most people today have at least heard the term “Internet of Things (IoT)” and have a hazy understanding of what it means. Internet of Things (IoT) includes anything and everything th...
The financial services sector is being ripped up overnight. Today, consumers don’t want to spend their lunch hour queuing in bank branches, they want easy-to-use and quick access to their finances on ...
The retail industry and the customer check-out process has evolved a lot since the birth of the industry. For a very long time “retail” was mostly confined to bartering and then market stalls, before ...
Looking at the latest changes regarding accuracy of business clocks, now reincarnated as RTS 25, I noticed a number of interesting points in the text. Most importantly, the absence of the usual claus...