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Next month the UK Government is launching one of the most extensive cyber threat exercises, which will test how prepared financial systems are to survive a sustained online attack. The move comes af...
Continuing our journey to understand the mobile payments ecosystem, let’s look at card transactions, how they happen, and who gets money for them. Again, please correct me with comments where I’m wro...
Were you at SIBOS in September? If so, did you get a chance to see how new products, services and technologies are being rolled out in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region? During my last tr...
The current state of regulatory-imposed financial reform has been the subject of many articles, client alerts, and implementation advice covering a broad range of activities from policy and structural...
Dark pools around the globe are under constant regulatory scrutiny. The Australian and Canadian regulators now require dark trades to offer meaningful price improvement over lit markets. While Brusse...
Over 92% of CIOs have not taken their big data initiatives beyond the planning stage, according to research from Gartner. While 64% of the 720 organizations surveyed globally have big data investment ...
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) delivered the following documents to the G20 leaders for the St. Petersburg summit: Letter from the FSB Chair, Mark Carney on the progress of financial reforms - t...
Looking at the evolution of vendor systems in financial markets is not dissimilar to how we view the times when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Back then (if you can say that about 140 million years ago),...
The banking industry is now firmly focused on driving down costs. The ‘big five’ banks actually saw their profits slump 40% on the previous year. The causes for this decline in revenue are complex and...
The new world between 2030 –2050 recalls past transition points—such as 1815, 1919, 1945, or 1989. In this world will exist an absence of global power. The hegemonic power will shift to networks and...
The Asian retail banking customer is changing. Increasingly wealthy and connected, customers want even more from their banks and are becoming picky about who they bank with to get it. This increasingl...
Let's for a moment think outside the box and try to forget about using the SE in the mobile phone as a secure storage for the card info ... consumers already have the proper secure elements in their c...