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The need for transaction monitoring The world today is a very different place than even ten years ago; criminal activity is increasingly sophisticated and terrorist financing uses cutting edge technol...
First there was FATCA, then CRS. Now financial institutions have a new tax mandate to meet – Section 871(m). So what do these three numbers mean and will it really sound a death knell for US equity de...
Since November 2015, our machine learning tool for detecting spoofing and market manipulation has been getting a lot of buzz. The company has a record of detecting market manipulation in listed deriva...
Anticipation is rising ahead of the results of the latest ECB stress tests on European banks, due on 29 July. The results will determine whether the banks have sufficient capital buffers to withstand ...
In this blog I outline a 5-point plan for achieving full CRS compliance efficiently and effectively. 1. Identify CRS Reportable Population The first step to determining CRS Reporting obligations i...
The mobile payment market just got a lot more interesting with this week’s announcement about Mastercard taking its Masterpass digital payment platform mobile. The addition of Masterpass to the mo...
Data analytics is vital to measuring the value of the effort you put into your app development. If you’ve recently had an app developed and you’ve got analytics in place, you’ll now appreciate the imp...
The number of companies employing a chief digital officer (CDO) to drive their technological development is soaring, and the financial services sector is getting in on the act. With a real understandi...
At an industry event last week, two colleagues and I were discussing the oft-stated requirement that the POS (Point-of-Sale) must be as frictionless, simple and unobtrusive as possible. It is sometime...
Cyber fraud losses make headlines on a regular basis – the latest target on display for all. While these reports may often be viewed as extreme, worst-case scenarios, the case of SWIFT’s recent warnin...
A highly trending and often-heard topic in the financial world is FinTech. And not surprisingly, since the very concept is based on employing disruptive technology to the challenges of the financial w...
The second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) is one of the most far-reaching changes to financial market regulation yet. According to HM Treasury, estimates from 2015 for complian...