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Global real time interoperability is in our sights – immediate payments plus the industry consensus that ISO 20022 is the standard ‘de jour’ are paving the way towards a harmonised digital banking fut...
Looking back at MiFID I, the Systematic Internaliser (SI) didn’t really take off, resulting in a meagre 1-2% market share in the FTSE 100 today. Many EU countries had different models to execute or in...
Regulatory Challenges for Financial Institutions Banks are facing an increasing amount of regulatory challenges. Rules around know your customer (KYC) are particularly receiving increased attention,...
The cash register of the future, and that future is now, is designed to be both fixed and mobile at the same time — and that is a part of the evolution of POS into #NextGenPOS. Traditional cash regist...
Picture the scene: in a tailor’s shop in Hoi Ann, Vietnam, a reluctant shopper (me) has just been measured for a couple of bespoke suits. I’ve chosen the fabric, decided on the cut and I’m just about ...
FinTech has been lauded as a game-changer in nearly every sense of the word, but can it also revolutionize the way banks serve women? Right now, women clients are finding that FIs simply aren't meet...
The financial sector has changed more in the past two decades than at any point previously in history. Technology is the primary reason for this – banks have spent the last twenty years pouring money ...
Payments are evolving at a staggering rate. Yet despite the hype around the new payment methods, the way a 150 year old transport network has driven payments adoption is perhaps as significant. The ad...
Increasing globalization has significantly changed the corporate tax function, with constantly shifting regulations and stakeholder demands. In a recent report, “Reshaping the Tax Function of the Fut...
In recent years, the financial services sector has seen significant change. A wave of mergers and acquisitions as well as new regulations and reporting structures have changed UK and European institut...
Barclays recently launched a trio of new wearable contactless payment devices, branded Bpay collectively. Bpay consists of three ‘wearable’ options; a wrist band, a key fob and not so wearable phon
Official statistics released by the BBA in June reveal that demand for personal loans has increased over the last two consecutive years.[1] On the surface, the news that UK consumers are borrowing su...