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Great News today! At last we are going to get some action over lack of competition and the shape of the financial services market for the future but only if we all engage. Alex Chisholm, CMA chief exe...
Let me start with a definition and 3 data points Definition: Channel for me means Branch, Call Center (Phone), Digital, Mobile Lender/Adviser/Relationship Manager, Social Media, Snail Mail etc…every c...
Bit late in posting this up, but given I did something about RainStor I thought I should write up my attendance at a MarkLogic event day in downtown Manhattan from several weeks back - their NoSQL da...
Regular Finextra community users will have noticed a few changes of Blogs and Profile pages over the last few months. Some of the changes are little more than tweaks - a nip and tuck here and there. O...
MiFID II introduces the requirement to synchronise the business clocks of trading venues and their customers, standardising the recorded time on post-trade data, transaction reporting and, most import...
Digital Channels – What should banks do? Background In the past, banks have taken inside out approach towards customer. They expected customers to know bank’s internal structures and reach out to bank...
How many of us can remember working in a pre-computer payroll office? Endless rows of filing cabinets. Walls covered in handwritten charts that had to be constantly updated by some unlucky person. Ash...
Data silos were a key failure in identifying Madoff's fraud, according to the Wall Street Journal. While clearly it wasn't the only issue, silos provided useful hiding places that stopped valuable da...
Last night as I got home from a Korean-town dinner in NYC with the Moven management team, I got a message via Facebook from Rob Findlay (Next Bank) about a recently launched Youtube video supposedly p...
As you may already know the leaders of the five Brics countries have announced and signed an agreement yesterday (15.July 2014), to create a new $100bn (£58.3bn) development bank and emergency reserv...
There’s a problem with e-invoicing. It’s a positive move for every business yet despite adoption gaining momentum, only a few companies have fully embraced it. This is crazy. It’s an enabler for the m...
Each millionth of a second is commercially counted through HFT (high frequency trades) deals. Accompanying phenomenon of global HFT infrastructure is a commercial supremacy race. The debate on spect...