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The open banking framework was published a couple of weeks ago by the open banking working group. Here I share my 10 most salient take outs in 10 headings. If you want to know what the 148 pages of th...
Who would want to be the CEO of a major UK bank? Listening to Ross McEwan of RBS speak at a recent dinner, you could only imagine that he is looking forward to handing over the reins to the next maso...
The pixels were barely dry on my last blog post on the regulatory impact of a potential Brexit on the City of London, when news broke that LSE Group was in talks with Deutsche Börse over a "merge...
Here’s a scary statistic: 90% of big corporate banking clients would consider switching to a different financial institution for better service around onboarding, account maintenance, service requests...
With margins down in the syndicated loan market, asset managers are seeking to operate as efficiently as possible. However, operational friction between front, middle and back office teams is a hurdl...
In looking at compliance officers (from the buy side, sell side, exchanges, and regulators) I saw only one person with a background in data science, machine learning, decision science, statistics
Most people have heard of storing information in “the cloud,” but do you know what this means, and if it is even safe? A cloud is basically a network of servers that offer different functions. Some of...
In 2014 the Internet of Things (IoT) landed at the top of Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies replacing big data on the throne. Today, we are witnessing a revolution where wearables, conne...
Abstract – Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) not too old concept introduced in last quarter of year 2007 when standards for the 3GPP Policy Charging Control (PCC) architecture were published. ...
Interesting to read over the weekend that London's mayor Boris Johnson has decided to throw his charismatic and not inconsiderable weight behind the "NO" campaign. Most agree that this shift...
The deadline for MiFID II might be delayed, but financial organisations should be wary of putting off their plans to reinforce archiving of client communications. With every piece of litigation, the p...
Banks must refine and modernise their approach to data management to be effective in the era of the Quantified Self The world is undergoing a data revolution. We are in the midst of the Quantified Sel...