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Clearing Houses are becoming even more important in the markets as regulatory and political change forces OTC into their systems and onto their balance sheets. Who knows if the balance sheets of Clear...
As the value of the day to day decisions grow, the importance of Decision Management Solution deployment becomes undoubted. Organizations adopting Decision Management improve business results by suppo...
Over the past 15 years, the increasingly rapid evolution of technology has resulted in new computers or mobile phones becoming outdated in a matter of one or two years. Chances are, you’ve gone throug...
The popularity of shared resource pools in banking over the last decade has been astonishing. Some banks have resource pools for every major job function. Creating groups of the same skillset was su...
It more or less started with telephones. On the day that a customer happened to call the bank to inquire or conduct a transaction, remote banking was on its way. Well, sort of on its way. Telephones a...
Technology is evolving at an incredible rate, which means that the strategies you employed 2 or 3 years ago are probably no longer on target. Take personal audio for example: If a group of music execu...
Wow – Payments is a hot topic right now isn’t it? With a few brilliant ideas and a whole host of, well, dimmer ones crowding into the market, our previously introverted corner of the financial service...
After 5 weeks of extenuating negotiations, with dramatic scenes entries and bumpy price rides on the stock market, the negotiations between Temenos and Misys seem to have come to an end, as it was ann...
When, in 1984, the marketing team at Midland Bank first removed charges from some personal accounts, they couldn't have guessed at the long term consequences for the UK retail market. At a time when...
Dodd-Frank section 1073 generated much comment at both the International Payments Framework Association (IPFA) General Meeting and the NACHA Global Payments Forum (GPF) conferences in Munich this wee...
As most people are aware, travelling comes with its own set of challenges and rewards. The challenges often fall into categories like delayed flights, crowded airports, train or bus terminals, being a...
One of the major problems in the stabilisation of securities markets is to find a recognised and standard mechanism to rate the quality of collateral. Clearing Houses have their own methods of assessi...