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As financial institutions limp out of the recent market downturn, many are still licking their wounds and effectively boiling their business models down to the basic principles of increasing liquidity...
How do you define innovation in finance? Are we talking about the creation of new synthetic debt instruments, famously decried by Warren Buffet as "financial weapons of mass destruction". Or...
The changing landscape is forcing banks to look at different ways to enhance profitability through the services they offer. From being a one stop shop for all financial service needs, banks are consol...
Two weeks ago I questioned what form a ‘new risk management’ would take and how far the industry is rallied around the 2010 GARP Risk theme of “Transforming Risk into a new world order”. I had hope
Real time news technology has come a long way since the carrier pigeon. Bloomberg just announced it is stepping up its presence in the hot machine-readable news scene. Dow Jones is there and Reuters
It's been a while since the major FX multi-dealer platforms (MDPs) bowed to the inevitable and started hosting white-label-style single-dealer channels alongside their traditional services. Since then...
"If there are any Mattel engineers in the audience, the astronaut Barby's space suit is not crash proof" (loose paraphrasing on Will Wright's keynote) Yep, the keynote was entertaining and ...
The longer a customer stays with a bank, the less it costs to retain him. In a recent study of banking customers, average product ownership and profitability was found to be 20% higher among those who...
With all the fuss around banking services for their corporate customers or should I say lack of, the news that Bank of America Merrill Lynch is working with IdenTrust to solve ancient operational clie...
Dexia Bank has launched in 2009 one of the most innovative initiative in the Financial industry: “Axion Banner Concerts”. Their affiliate Axion bank streamed rock concerts within the frames of tradit...
Dan Yost Chief Technology Officer of MyLaptopGPS brought attention to the Ponemon Institute, with sponsorship from PGP, has released their “Fifth Annual U.S. Cost of Data Breach Study.” As usual, the...
New report (will be translated to English soon) going deeper into the e-invoicing theme http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_DE-PROD/PROD0000000000253980.pdf Deutsche Bank is certainly doing th...