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Abstract – A high level overview of Cloud Computing & Cloud based mobile financial services & mobile payments is the objective of this article. Cloud computing is easy and simple concept but s...
Social Commerce Applications are Fast Gaining Ground! How important are Social Commerce Platforms? Social Commerce plays an integral part in the global economic engine. Numerous examples abound, wi...
The UK insurance industry suffers the highest rate of customer churn verses other service industry segments. This is according to a report issued by Pitney Bowes and the Chartered Institute of Loss Ad...
With rules and operational arrangements currently being developed in earnest, the dawn of the Asian funds passport seems fast upon us. Headlines in the FT have progressed from the rather negative &quo...
As another academic year comes to an end, many graduates are preparing themselves for a busy three months ahead as a summer intern. It is estimated that there are about 100,000 internships in the UK ...
Back in 2010 the crowdfunding was a fledgling industry. As with much early stage growth, very little notable happened. Move forward five years and the contrast is startling. Namely the man on the stre...
The more things change, the more they stay the same. This seems the case with security and mobile payments, where security has, is, and will be a significant consumer concern. This post discusses
To understand how seriously the international community is taking money laundering you need look no further than the first paragraph of the G20’s ‘2015-16 Anti-Corruption Implementation Plan’. ‘Corr...
With an estimated $1.2 trillion of additional collateral needed to meet new margin requirements, urgent action is now unavoidable to tackle the 'Great Collateral Squeeze' head-on. What we know is that...
Hong Kong regulators are taking the lead and cracking down on compliance. Last week its Securities and Futures Commission revealed inadequate KYC procedures within banks for onboarding. The HKMA is al...
Big data belongs to next generation of data warehousing and Business analytics and it is capable to deliver high ROI for organization. Ten years before, we were not using the same amount of data what ...
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the banking community has found itself transported into a new reality, with ongoing regulatory change now becoming, more regular, more concurrent, and more extensive, ...