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Global Supply chain finance’s (SCF’s) original value proposition is to facilitate access to finance by arbitraging an “anchor” buyer’s lower funding costs on selected suppliers’ behalf. This principle...
This post was originaly published on Let's Talk Payments portal where I regularly contribute thought leadership pieces and since it was very well received I have decided to share it with Finextra comm...
Europe’s Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) is due to come into force in January 2018, once all the national parliaments have passed the required legislation. Some commentators are calling it the big...
Last year’s interim Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) report into retail banking allowed the banks to breathe a little easier. Their worst fears were not realised – they weren’t to be broken up....
Interesting story in the FT today about IEX and its application to become a fully-fledged exchange. At issue is IEX’s so-called 'speed bump' that will slow down the HFT 'boy racers' and so make market...
Financial engineering is and remains a divisive term. In my Finextra blog last month, I argued that leading institutions were weighed down by legacy. Financial engineering is perhaps an example of suc...
After a two-year investigation the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published provisional recommendations to improve retail banking in the UK. It's a sector that deserves attention but onc...
The EMV has finally come to the US, the largest payment market, which was fully reliant on the outdated and counterfeiting prone magnetic stripe technology. Why is EMV so significant as payment techno...
Having spent nearly two decades of my career defending the use and longevity of cash I find myself reviewing this position. I have now crossed over from finance and cash/transaction automation into t...
Sometimes working with data can seem like an existentialist exercise. Are we thinking about data or are we thinking about the human condition? Sometimes it’s a little of both. Donald Rumsfeld, former ...
To build a profitable career out of forex trading, you will need to create the ultimate home office. Setting up a proper trading station at home is easy and highly effective. It improves focus and opt...
Post 2 of 4 of the series: The 'Bank of Things' Banking on Connected Cars The future is already here with self-driving cars and the race is on globally to full legislate for them to be acceptable. Du...