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Did you know “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” book? Written by Oliver Sacks, the book tells stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations. It includes...
Exchanges have changed tremendously in recent years. The concept of a public market for trading securities has continued to evolve ever since the first exchange was established in 13th century Belgium...
An interesting couple of days at the International Derivatives Expo in London this week. Alongside the usual debate on OTC clearing, algo tagging and other regulatory conundrums, I was on a panel look...
For years the promise that ‘this will be the year of mobile payments’ has dominated industry news feeds. It’s true that mobile will eventually succeed the humble plastic card, but quite when remains t...
Myth Financial services firms shouldn’t use the cloud for its customer data because it is less secure than on-premise systems. Fact This line of thinking is extremely common among people in the financ...
For financial institutions with vision and long term planning capabilities, there are real opportunities to turn a supremely tough regulatory compliance exercise into a key business driver. In the fir...
Often in these articles, I describe the business process – but I wanted to look at Latin America E-Invoicing from an audit risk point of view. Often when we look at the issues, our IT teams think abo...
One of the most important topics addressed here at EBAday this week has been E-Identification. It's the kind of topic that could be swept into the "techy" drawer by many bankers, but it's pr...
Hello again. Much news, some good, some not so good on the e-crime and cyber security front. Acknowledgements and thanks to the Bank of England, BBC, Independent, Telegraph, Reuters, Bloomberg, CSO, e...
Since the financial crisis of 2008, it would appear that a paradigm shift has taken place whereby regulation breeds regulation! Just when you thought you had grasped EMIR and the early stages of MiFID...
So much has been written in the news about the US Banks that failed the Fed’s recent stress test. While it certainly is not a pleasant experience for those institutions, we need to look for the lesso...
Having a customer focus is contrary to the way that most complex organisations think and operate. During troubled times, that distancing from customers tends to increase: the organisation's focus is o...