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The banking sector has faced yet more criticism in the last week for its so called “creaking IT systems”. According to the Chief Executive of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), Andrew Bailey,...
Recent findings suggested that big data is a lot more valuable than people think. Companies with advanced analytic capabilities, the consultancy finds, are twice as likely to be in the top quartile ...
The New York Chapter of PRMIA hosted "Regulatory, Compliance, and Risk Data Technology Challenges" at Credit Suisse's offices in New York, last Thursday 10th April. Abraham Thomas introduce...
EBA’s Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) for supervisory reporting (CRR/CRD IV) have officially been adopted by the European Commission (EC). As a result of the delayed adoption of the ITS, the re...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a summary of its supervisory work plan 2014 in relation to trade repositories (TRs) authorised under the European Markets Infrastruct...
Be agile or lose out if you want to win the mobile payments race. Discover the role of agile development methodologies in the adoption of effective and risk free mobile payments technology. The bankin...
The 15th Annual OpRisk Europe Conference hosted by Operational Risk & Regulation Magazine recently took place in London. With record levels of attendees, the conference raised a number of interes...
As I mentioned in the previous blog "When best of breed financial crime and compliance “point solutions” aren’t enough", many companies are increasingly looking to consolidate their various ...
We recently conducted a customer study into how well technology companies are managing their recurring revenue — and the results are disconcerting. It turns out that companies are leaving serious reve...
So at the last gasp, but not unsurprising given the lack of ITS in the EU Official Journal, the European Commission has today adopted the ITS which finalises the European Common Reporting requirements...
Following a lengthy consultation and drafting period (ongoing since 2011/12), the final Level 1 texts for MiFID II and MiFIR were approved by the European Parliament (EP)’s Economic and Monetary (ECON...
The emperor criticized Mozart's composition with, "Too many notes." Twitter allows only 140 characters to get a point across. Automation in Banking - 2014 needs 628 pages to tell its state o...