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The Macroeconomic Assessment Group on Derivatives (MAGD) which comprises financial and economic modelling experts from central banks and other authorities has published a report on the macroeconomic i...
Wednesday. Sibos fatigue is setting in for most normal people but the Standards Forum is still going strong. Andrew Muir, still basking in the glory of his triumphant rendition of Happy Birthday, mi...
Last day. Are you still in one piece? Ask me again tomorrow. The standards forum wraps up Sibos 2013 with another full agenda. Prof. Poppe, who has really put a shift in this week, gets the day off ...
In February 2013, China became the second largest active Bitcoin market globally as measured by wallet downloads. This has attracted new Bitcoin based businesses to China and what could be a massive m...
Customer Care, YES! - Customer Service, NO! Yes, you heard me right, Customer Care, if you are not doing this then you are falling behind. The old view of Customer Service, which was difficult to get ...
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published policy recommendations to strengthen the oversight and regulation of the shadow banking system following consultation in November 2012. The “shadow b...
An efficient and effective trade finance market is vital to a country's prosperity and to the survival of thousands of individual companies in the supply chain, but it is an incredibly clunky, paper-b...
The FCA has updated its Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) web pages to: set out the out the supervisory co-operation arrangements with 42 different non-EEA authorities; and inclu...
I've been reading a lot about “which way” people think the digital wallet is going to go. I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 with EE. My wallet has NFC through cash on tap. I can order ahead and pay on the ...
With the Google Wallet announcements moving the emphasis away from NFC and thereby expanding the potential user base for its service, is this the KISS of life for wallets and the kiss of death for NFC...
If unhappy customers are indeed the greatest source of learning, then the banking sector is sitting on a gold mine. Since 2011, the proportion of customers planning to switch banks has risen from 7% t...
The Standards Forum celebrated its 10th birthday in style including a rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday” led by Andrew Muir, who looked like he was enjoying just a bit too much! The Standards team...