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Welcome to hump day. Day 3 of Sibos and we are closer to the end than we are to the beginning. I’m running on fumes now, waiting for my second wind to kick in. Another packed agenda on the Standards...
SWIFT is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the standards forum at Sibos in grand style with, amongst other things, a cake. The idea of bringingn practitioners, vendors and standards developers toge...
Big data An interesting clash appeared during the earliest conference sessions at Sibos: the standing-room-only Innotribe kickoff was scheduled against a session on Big Data. I can only think that Big...
The Reserve Bank of Australia, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, and Australian Securities and Investments Commission (the regulators) have released a Report on the Australian OTC Derivative...
The FATCA web page have been redesigned and updated. Additions include: a new landing page for US financial institutions that addresses their FATCA responsibilities; and information for governm
The new term (one that thankfully cannot be made into an acronym) hitting the psyche of operations professionals is ‘backshoring’. The term is surprisingly self-explanatory and refers to the process o...
Of all the global sporting contests, few parallel investment banking as well as the America’s Cup regatta. The latest round of the world’s oldest sporting competition kicks off in San Francisco this m...
2011 was meant to be "the year of NFC". So was 2012. And 2013. However, earlier this year NFC ran out of steam as far as "mind share" is concerned. When Google Wallet decided to dr...
We arrived at the Standards Forum stand bright and early for a team briefing. Very impressive always. This year the corrugated cardboard makes way for recycled wooden crates. Looks a bit like a loft...
Today, we start off with Professor Poppe again at 9am. Today Tom is talking about reference data. I’m particularly interested to hear about the role of standards in big data, clearly one of this year...
Global Trade has never NOT had a Golden Age ... Trade is the driver behind everything that happens and the reason why it happens. Trade is the reason that people have expanded across the globe. Trade ...
One of the best sessions at Sibos today came from McKinsey, who for the third year in a row fielded Philip Bruno and Marc Niederkorn to forecast what’s likely to happen to payments over the next few y...