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Let the audits begin. I have always stated that the sole reason for a government to mandate electronic invoicing across the business community is to reduce tax evasion. As in other Latin America cou...
Last week the media was divided in its coverage of the new measures around bankers’ bonuses with some saying they “don’t go far enough” and others saying they’re “unnecessarily convoluted” and the “e...
My 12 year-old uses building blocks and has been slowly and steadily working with his friends to create a whole new world. If they need something they built it. If he needs a new weapon or tool, he bu...
Following Visa token service key to Apple's mobile payments plans - analysts. A Visa token framework is a global standard to enhance the security of digital payments and simplify the purchasing exper...
Whether it is Bank of Queensland with their Hipster Branch launch, Citi's famed Apple-Store Branches, NAB's Crowd concept, Unicredit "Branch of the Future" in Italy and Bulgaria, PNC's Tel...
With an EMIR deadline once again looming, firms will be hoping that second time around they are fully ready for the stressful demands of compliance. As many fell short of the 12th February EMIR traded...
AIFMD, Basel III, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, Solvency II…There’s a raft of regulations for banks and asset managers to comply with. The cost of compliance is a concern to C-level execs across the board. But th...
For many consumers, the high street bank is still the preferred method of banking; the physicality of a branch is important for both the availability of real people to talk to and the feelings of secu...
The central clearing mandate for OTC derivatives has forced CCPs to apply various combinations of SPAN and VaR margin calculation techniques to portfolios containing a mix of listed and OTC derivative...
In football, for a long time, all that was expected of defenders was that they “keep clean sheets” (i.e., prevent any goals). Of late, however, they are also expected to launch their team’s counter-at...
With projected year-on-year growth in global data currently standing at around 40 percent Big Data has become a critical part of customer, supplier and operational relationships across every sector
Modelling and simulations are the modern business equivalent of the old adage ‘practice makes perfect’: imitating the operation of a real process or system. What used to be seen as quite a specialised...