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For financial institutions with vision and long term planning capabilities, there are real opportunities to turn a supremely tough regulatory compliance exercise into a key business driver. In the fir...
Often in these articles, I describe the business process – but I wanted to look at Latin America E-Invoicing from an audit risk point of view. Often when we look at the issues, our IT teams think abo...
One of the most important topics addressed here at EBAday this week has been E-Identification. It's the kind of topic that could be swept into the "techy" drawer by many bankers, but it's pr...
Hello again. Much news, some good, some not so good on the e-crime and cyber security front. Acknowledgements and thanks to the Bank of England, BBC, Independent, Telegraph, Reuters, Bloomberg, CSO, e...
BNP Paribas is in a real fix. It faces censure for allegedly being found guilty of breaching US rules on money laundering, and of breaching US sanctions, between 2002 and 2009. These alleged breaches ...
Since the financial crisis of 2008, it would appear that a paradigm shift has taken place whereby regulation breeds regulation! Just when you thought you had grasped EMIR and the early stages of MiFID...
Never mind the government nosing in on your business; there’s a much bigger snooper out there that’s mining to your personal data: thousands of companies whose names you may not even know. These “da...
So much has been written in the news about the US Banks that failed the Fed’s recent stress test. While it certainly is not a pleasant experience for those institutions, we need to look for the lesso...
Having a customer focus is contrary to the way that most complex organisations think and operate. During troubled times, that distancing from customers tends to increase: the organisation's focus is o...
One of the most interesting, and potentially revolutionary, applications of big data technology in financial services has to be the schema-less trade repository. The best way to understand the solut
We all love financial regulation, right? It provides brain cells wonderful exercise to read the letter of the law from our beloved elected governments and to convert that logical law into the artform ...
Outsourcing is a hot topic. Should your operations head for the door? In-house or outsourced, it’s a question I have been asked many a time – which is why I’ve noticed with interest the lead article