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Let AML monitoring find the FATCA needles in your haystack FATCA and the Model IGAs define certain thresholds that determine the relevance of new accounts and the level (and timing) of scrutiny requir...
Once again the spotlight is on the UK’s banking industry and the need for greater competition. George Osborne used his annual Mansion House speech to renew his commitment to promote more competition i...
I've been to a fair amount of FinTech, financial services and payments conferences in my time. I once sat through one where an old man in a badly fitting suit read passages from the Payments Services ...
Many companies, not just within the financial sector, have been looking recently to sell off anonymised data about its customers. Putting aside consumer concerns over privacy, are those organizations ...
When sales are waning, when your marketing department seems at wit’s end with regard to reversing the downward spiraling sales and when you are seeing a cash flow crisis looming on the horizon, you st...
Two years ago, Arriva won some awards for their m-ticket solution. The concept was dead simple: a mobile app that displayed "dynamic" barcode image. Masabi offered a similar concept for the...
The industry is buzzing with talk about ‘big data’, but what underpins the hype and what does big data bring to the world of application development within investment banking? Since the inception of b...
The first step to solving a problem is to admit you have a problem. I have been involved with card fraud systems for over 20 years and too many times when I have discussed fraud I’ve been greeted with...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) as required under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) has published: A report containing guidelines and recommendations for est...
In today’s dog-eat-dog world of high risk and financial uncertainty it can be easy for businesses to become disorientated and lost in their ongoing quest for a greater competitive edge. This can take ...
The UK government is encouraging the use of e-invoicing across all central government transactions. Mandating will be considered as a possibility, if it’s seen as an effective way to spread best pract...
Corporates in advanced economies are accelerating their international expansion ambitions as they look to escape slow growth at home and expand abroad, looking to capture sales growth in geographies t...