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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a consultation paper which sets out policy changes to its fee and levy regimes. FCA is proposing to introduce fees for approved reporting mechanisms...
From PayPal to Square, Braintree to Bitcoin, the payments business continues to flex and morph like the orange gloop in a lava lamp. Every week, I see at least two hot new technologies promising to ra...
Top five money management tips October 2, 2013 The Payments Council has today published a guide - as part of its Pay Your Way campaign - for people affected o...
Paperless direct debits to help landlord maximise income through Universal Credit November 7, 2013 In a bid to maximise its income collection ahead of Universal Credit, 10,000-home North Lincolnshire ...
Hardly a day goes by without someone getting excited about Google's Host Card Emulation (HCE). Media is selling it as the "Open Sesame" for mobile payments. Is that true? Executive summary: ...
UK banks are turning to expanding access to technology to rebuild customer trust and offer improved services. For example our client Barclays Bank is embarking on a major transformation programme tha...
The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) has announced its plan to develop a risk based global insurance capital standard (ICS) by 2016. Full implementation will begin in 2019 af...
… doesn’t it? By embracing new technologies, access to services via the Cloud offers corporate treasurers of every size of organisation the opportunity to improve efficiencies and further drive down o...
A common pitfall of many projects is that once the team finally crosses the finish line they ‘forget’ to hold a Post Implementation Review (PIR) meeting. The reasons for this are many and obvious. The...
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has published the final guidelines to ensure that national competent authorities (NCAs), insurance companies and groups take active s...
The European Commission has published a proposal to amend the Solvency II Directive to set later dates for its transposition (31 January 2015) and its application (1 January 2016). The proposed Dire...
Two important events happened in November 2013. First, the Fed released its latest stress test definitions, to be used as the basis of the Comprehensive Capital and Analysis Review (CCAR) report, due ...