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Wearable technology has been the talk, as the “next big thing”, since Google released the prototype of Google Glass. It has been hailed by the tech fanboy club but also been criticized on questions re...
Obsessed with the bottom line? Consumed by operational costs brought on by a myriad of regulations? Obsessed with the customer? Which of these is the odd one out? When I posed the question to an inves...
Now that SEPA is in place, corporates will be able to leverage that investment to start making payments across the entire eurozone using a single instrument from as little as one bank / account. The i...
Last month saw the 2014 Future of Money Design Award, alongside Tomorrow’s Transactions, the 16th annual Consult Hyperion Forum in London. The Future of Money Award was launched in 2009 and was create...
I rarely recommend reading the reader comments at the Guardian Online (or indeed any other newspaper site) unless you need a fast cure for low blood pressure or get a kick out despising your fellow ma...
The publication of Michael Lewis's new book Flash Boys has reignited the whole HFT/dark pool debate (actually, maybe it's never really gone away). The point people seem to continually miss in this deb...
The prospect of a major review by the Financial Conduct Authority into the technology risks in Financial institutions highlights the challenging regulatory environment and increased scrutiny the indu...
The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) has launched a public consultation on its Trade Reporting User Manual (TRUM) for trade reporting under the Regulation for Wholesale Markets I...
As they are pressed to make compliance a higher priority, C-suite executives in the insurance industry are being pulled in so many different directions that it is becoming increasingly difficult for t...
Does your organisation fall into scope of the latest Capital Requirements Directive (CRD IV) and Capital Requirements Regulation which came into effect on 1 January 2014? Even though the Prudential ha...
On 4 March, Arkk Solutions invited a number of their COREP clients to participate in a customer focus group with the aim of identifying the major challenges in the CRD IV reporting application and imp...
As from today, FCA’s reporting system GABRIEL is ready to receive COREP and FINREP submissions. If your firm falls into the scope of CRD IV, COREP modules COR001 Own Funds & Leverage and COR002 La...