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Just about everyone has private information that should be protected. Let’s begin with something you’ve surely heard of: antivirus protection. But this isn’t enough to guard your personal data. A fr...
Doing more with less is the mantra of today’s business world. Once you’ve gone through an efficiency drive, streamlined operations and automated processes within your business, a common question is ...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a chart that no one wants to top – the bi-annual complaints list. Complaints across the financial services industry are down 15% – good news for com...
– Are You Planning For Success In Corporate Banking? Planning for 2015 capital investment deadlines will be a stressful exercise. The question on everyone’s mind in the organization: What should be on...
Fintech is booming. OK - according to VentureBeat it 'might not be the sexiest thing happening around town' (who claimed it was?) but it's growing, and growing quickly. The startup arm is even more e...
In the second instalment of our six part series looking at the transformation that is required in investment banking operations, today we look at how process automation will enable investment bank bus...
Bridging the Gap between Sales and Marketing Marketing and sales are both activities aimed at increasing revenue. They are so closely intertwined that people often don’t realize the difference between...
Under MiFID II European regulators introduce new rules around algorithmic trading. Whether it’s algo IDs, enhanced audit trails or business clock synchronisation, none of these items would have been o...
Lack of strategic focus to build Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) Building EDW is a strategic initiative since it requires shift in culture, longer timescale & more importantly it is an expensive a...
Without data that is accurate, reconciled and validated, risk reporting may be useless. This is Part 2 in a four-part series on the key areas of the BCBS 239 risk data aggregation and reporting guidel...
There’s a misconception that reconciliations was figured out long ago. In the 1990s, banks embarked on projects to automate back office reconciliations. By 2007, these were highly commoditised and see...
I recently got to speak with an enlightening analyst from Gartner - Rajesh Kandaswamy – who specializes in the Financial Services vertical. He mentioned an insight from an FSI CEO which I’m going to p...