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Standards Forum Day Three

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...

18 Sep 2013
Standards Forum
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Sibos 2013: Happy Birthday Standards Forum

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...

17 Sep 2013
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Sibos 2013: BIG DATA:innovation,magic bullet or BAU?

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...

17 Sep 2013
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Australia reports implementation of OTC Derivatives reforms

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...

17 Sep 2013
Financial Services Regulation
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FATCA website updated and open for registration 19th August

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

17 Sep 2013
Financial Services Regulation
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Backshoring: Coming full circle

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...

17 Sep 2013
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Risk Management and the Americas Cup

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...

17 Sep 2013
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NFC vs Bluetooth Low Energy

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...

17 Sep 2013
Innovation in Financial Services
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Standards Forum Day One Summary

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...

17 Sep 2013
Standards Forum
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Standards Forum Day Two

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...

17 Sep 2013
Standards Forum
Chris Principe

The Golden Age of Trade

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 ...

16 Sep 2013
Innovation in Financial Services
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McKinsey forecasting big changes and growth in payments

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...

16 Sep 2013
Innovation in Financial Services

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