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In a world that's awash with exuberant projections of mobile payment spends in 2022 from products that are not yet launched in 2013 - no, I’m not just looking at you, ISIS - GigaOm introduced a sense ...
When regulators lay out massive fines for non-compliance they flood budgets with money, where previously there was (presumably) little or none. When HSBC was fined US$1.9 billion by US regulators it e...
When a conservative Wall Street publication, published a piece sometime back, calling for acceptance of climate change due to global warming, and advocating measures to manage it without compromising ...
The small business segment aka the SME/business banking segment is an important part of a bank’s business and is sandwiched between the consumer and the large corporate segment. It’s relatively easy t...
Whilst I have personally enjoyed the growth of acceptance of NFC based contactless payments for my payment cards and my Samsung S4, I can't but help notice the people around me in either their payment...
Final day. I realize that this is a week late, but I feel I must complete the set, so here goes. Sibos was discernably quiet. Perhaps Thursday is the new Friday. However, no such tail-off at the S...
My recent study into the UK mortgage market has once again provided real insight into the sales and originations process and best practice. It also unearth lender sentiment as the market moves towards...
At this week’s annual CISI Integrity debate the question about the honesty and integrity of Wealth Managers was debated with a packed audience of Wealth Management professionals. Now I use the word pr...
Banks are in the business of taking risks. Lending inherently carries the risk of default. No wonder, a corporate customer’s credit risk is a function of its probability of default. Lower the default ...
Its old news: there is a lot of effort being expended on the landslide of regulatory change. But before you can even start to consider complying with new (or for that matter more established) regulati...
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has published its fourth report on the implementation of Basel III regulatory reforms for the G20 Leaders' September Summit. Full, timely and consiste...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has done it again. They quietly published a revised European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) timeline which postpones commencement of Trade...