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If you had asked me a year ago what the credit and debit card industry was like in Brazil, I would have said that it has always faced major challenges - many of them just down to the credit availabili...
Nice to see that SmartPool is really starting to move the dial in terms of its dark pool volume. Since January its volumes have grown to the point that it is now in third place behind Chi-Delta and...
A consistent theme keeps popping up as I discuss social media innovations with bankers these days. It is increasingly frustrating for innovators who want to use mobile, social media, the web and other...
Recently I co-hosted a webinar on AML sanctions screening alongside Chrisol Correia, Director of Strategy at Dow Jones Risk & Compliance. The presentation gave us the chance to examine some of th
An advertisement by a mutual fund company stated "investments are for when you need them". Settlement cycles are reducing on stock exchanges across the globe. Money movements for trade sett
There was a bit of a Twitter storm over this utterly, mind-numbingly ridiculous item from BBC4's the World the Weekend on the, now four year old 'storm in a teacup' that is the US/Swift data privacy ...
The National Payments Plan progress report that was published in June highlighted the Payment Council’s continued focus on alternative payment technologies such as contactless. The two-year progress u...
A provision was approved by the U.S. House and Senate financial reform conferees last week, which allows banks to pay interest on business demand deposit accounts for the first time since the Great D
This is a question I am thinking of for some period now. Innovation in payments is made for the customer... most at least! But it is all going so fast, that I wonder how long the Industry will be able...
While many banks talk of providing trading via the iPhone or other mobile devices to institutional clients, so far very few have done so. In the non-professional (retail) market, most spread betting f...
When a customer does a transaction with his/her bank in a product such as foreign exchange, the rate that the customer transacts at will vary depending on how much they want to please the customer an...