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Procrastination is easy when the task at hand appears too difficult to tackle. A number of US financial institutions (USFIs) and foreign financial institutions (FFIs) have viewed FATCA’s preexisting ...
Since 2009, banks have been scrutinized microscopically about their resilience to a wide range of risks. This is hardly surprising, given the post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) realization of intercon...
There is a fresh wind blowing through the world of financial services, through government and through any public and private sector body that needs to handle high volumes of sensitive, transactional d...
Financial Services has always been seen as a complex player when it comes to IT transformation. In some respects, the industry can be viewed as a forerunner with new products and services and online a...
When making innovation happen - getting the next individual to move to something better (digital) - we need to look at the full toolbox. The starting point is that too many citizens continue behaving ...
In the recent story on Finextra Swift confirms multiple cases of fraudulent message traffic, attackers compromised back end computers and other devices to authenticate and initiate transactions. In a...
Don't worry I'm not going to berate you to leave or stay. I'm more interested in how politicians have positioned the issues for us to discuss and the confusion they have caused. What I've tried to d...
With their loan books growing at an estimated 175 per cent per year, online lenders are changing the face of the global banking industry at an unprecedented pace. One recent survey found that three-qu...
When people start looking for solutions to financial crime, regulation and compliance there is a natural tendency to start with new customers, known as the ‘front book’. These new customers already...
Having seen the recent press headlines on delays in cheque imaging, I began to think about the role that cheques play in the UK payments market. Cheques have caused their fair share of controversy ov...
"....Or, do we need to adjust our spot computing buying optimisation algorithms to lower our daily computing spend?" When was the last time you sat in an operating committee meeting or your ...
I recently stumbled upon a pretty detailed account written by R3's Director of Market Research. (Link below). It was an interesting read for a new comer like me to see what R3 is doing and where is th...