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With the UK parliamentary elections only a year away, the shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury Cathy Jamieson MP has set out Labour’s views on retail banking and the payments market in particula...
This was originally posted on Swedish Startup Space. In 2008 I was the Head of Fraud Analytics for FraudSciences, an Israeli startup developing fraud prevention solutions for eCommerce. One evening in...
Are today’s financial services customers increasingly frustrated by banks that are unable to meet their shifting requirements? Definitely. Growth in the use of smartphones and tablet computers opens u...
A little over a year ago, I discussed the progression of BCBS 188: Basel III: International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring and how financial institutions must hand...
When it comes to building the parts of your business that support your sales model, do you focus on size and scale, or flexibility? In a different world, the companies that built the most powerful sal...
Having recently been voted through the European Parliament, the clock is now ticking on the next phase of the Markets in Financial Instrument Directive (MiFID) II implementation process. The onus is n...
Now that China is overtaking the US to become the world’s biggest economy, the rest of the world is seeking to assess when the renminbi joins the ranks of the world’s reserve currencies. Last week the...
Led by a sharp rise in the number of mobile subscribers globally, and the high volume of smartphone sales, mobile payments (m-payments) are expected to exceed £429 billion by 2017. And now, with the U...
The Bank of England recently announced plans to hire ethical hackers to carry out penetration tests on major banks and financial institutions. This is a positive step in the right direction to expose ...
Virtual assistants might be transforming how banks deal with customer queries, but quantifying that the best advice and the right answer is given each time, isn’t always as simple as it seems. With mo...
The Chairman of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), Dr Mark Carney, has written to the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors providing an update on financial reforms. The letter summarise...
At a meeting of EU finance ministers yesterday the discussion turned to the introduction of the financial transaction tax (FTT) under the enhanced co-operation procedure. While still lacking even the...