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Bitcoin is rapidly emerging from the primeval swamp land of crypto anarchists to be of significant interest and potential impact to the established payments industry. Now well beyond its nascent sta...
BCBS consults on the treatment of derivative transactions under the capital adequacy framework The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has published two consultative documents: The non-inte...
I’ve got a sore back. Or to be more precise I’ve got a sore tail bone. I don’t know whether it’s from being thrown in a fight or from the amount of time I spend on trains commuting between home (Edinb...
Handelsbanken was put on FND credit watch earlier this month, which was a rare piece of bad news for the organisation. In fact, the Swedish retail bank has been as close to an unqualified success in r...
Recent research has shown that banks spend more on IT than any other industry sector (See Deutsche Bank Research - IT in banks: What does it cost?). In fact, on average banks expend 7.3% of their bud...
Trust is one of the most valuable assets you and your business possess. Trust permits the free exchange of information and promotes an atmosphere of openness. As you build trust, with clients, with em...
EBA consults on draft technical standards on closely correlated currencies and on appropriately diversified indices under the CRD The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published two consultation pa...
In my previous blog, I addressed the new requirements of the new directive of risk data aggregation and risk reporting from the Basel Committee. In many of the banks I meet, the risk function tends t...
We now have proof that hackers are targeting bank employees. Sadly, keyloggers, man-in-the-middle, and Trojans aren’t just for online banking customers anymore. The joint fraud alert from the FBI, FS-...
On 21 June 2013, the Council of the European Union published a progress report on the proposed Regulation on improving securities settlement and on central securities depositaries (CSDs). The report...
In my opinion, the most important aspect in determining the fate of any change initiative is the relationship between the three key roles that form the spine of the change organisation. These are the ...
#SocialBanking In the UK there are over 10 million Twitter users and 31 million active Facebook users. And yet in March, Commonwealth Bank Australia scored a world first when it launched a Facebook ba...