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Today’s organisations need to be transparent. They need to have quick access to their data so that they can prove in the event of an audit that they are abiding the regulations and mandates demanded o...
The timetable of legislative proposals from March to December 2013 has been published. The Securities Law Regulation intended to reduce divergence between national laws on book entry securities is no...
As rumor says, Apple will introduce new fingerprint scanning to open iPhone but may also introduce fingerprint to accept payments. In technical standards it sounds really secure solution, but there ar...
I find myself at the forefront of many debates these days. And I’m not talking about politics, but rather how we will pay for products or services in the future. A year ago, the topic of mobile paymen...
Can a solution based on Faster Payments become a viable alternative to the card schemes in the UK?.. I (very much) think so. Faster Payments service is based on the "account to account" syst...
Coming out of the financial crisis the banking industry has found itself under scrutiny with regards to its resilience and questions have been raised about financial institutions’ abilities to weather...
As part of the transition to the single financial services rulebook, the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON) of the European Parliament has published a public consultation asking: whether ...
In 1995 the average UK customer of HSBC visited the branch just over twice a month; in 2012 they only popped in just over three times a year. This illuminating statistic came from Brett King in an en...
The stories we hear on the recent freeze and confiscation of funds held in bank accounts in Cyprus seems to be more focused on individuals. In the UK we have heard many stories of retirees who had the...
As regulatory reforms accelerate from concepts to a tangible reality, the financial sector is now recognising product control as playing a central role in the end-to-end trading process. The lessons f...
The FSA has published this consultation which will allow it to publish information about the subject matter of a warning notice if it considers appropriate. This is considered “a real departure from ...
Compliance and productivity in retail and investment banking. My colleague Robert Simpson was recently able to bring together a very interesting group of people, to discuss the regulatory environmen...