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At the occasion of the 2016 Standards Forum to be held from 26 to 29 September in Geneva, I interviewed a number of SWIFT standards experts about the content of this year's programme. As each of the ...
‘Omnia omnibus’ means ‘all things to all men’ in Latin. That is a good way to start a discussion on the meaning of omni-channel to banks. As with so many other financial services buzz phrases, omni-ch...
Amongst other things, MiFID II’s transparency reforms intend to clean up the quality of post-trade data and eradicate duplicate prints – long-suffered bugbears for investment firms. But in simply stat...
‘Banker’. It’s difficult to think of any other job title that has been so universally vilified since the financial crisis in 2008. Roundly blamed for a ‘casino’ attitude to using other people’s money ...
The idea of Pensions ISAs was raised earlier this year; to make pensions more like ISAs where contributions are taxed but gains and withdrawals are tax free. This is opposite to the current pension sy...
While looking for any new insurance policy, whether that is for your health, your house, your car or any item you can think of, one of the common questions you ask is how much is the claim processing ...
Can you imagine the reaction of a bank employee if one morning he reads this headline? In the spring of 2010 I polled the students of the Master of Finance about how many of them would rather work fo...
It is always challenging to look for new topics worth mentioning related to blockchain or distributed ledger technology. One issue that needs special attention is financial regulation reporting under ...
As financial firms are compelled to deploy Blockchain technologies to satisfy client demand and to participate in market initiatives, many questions arise. According to a recent white paper produced j...
Even after the global economic crisis of a decade ago, the world’s largest banks have continued operating much like they always have because of the belief that they were “too big to fail.” Governments...
Forex trading is a business. Despite the home based setup and easy market entry, forex trading is a challenging and elaborate profession to profit from. It demands calculated strategies, valuable expe...
Structuring a business so it is capital and tax efficient sounds boring to most who aren’t accountants, but if you can pay your staff better and compete in the market more aggressively, it’s no longer...