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We get a lot of questions about what banks should do to protect themselves against online fraud. There seems to be a lot of confusion which only gets worse as dozens and dozens of vendors start to fig...
As Tim Berners-Lee once stated, “The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.” With the Web becoming more sophisticated, so do mobile and onlin...
I recently went through two omnichannel experiences, one that started well but went downhill soon thereafter and another that was a disaster from the beginning. Before I deep dive into my experiences...
Disappointingly, judging from the recent latest round of fraud statistics,[1] it looks like the UK is back on the naughty step in terms of countries with the highest fraud losses. New figures released...
It is fair to say that the first month of EMIR reporting has not exactly gone smoothly. Some Trade Repositories (TR) are still struggling with on-boarding and data issues, inter-TR reconciliation is n...
The Australian superannuation sector surged in size to $1.8 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2014, while contributions into superannuation funds with at least $50 million in assets were $22.7 billion...
The role of a chief executive at a global transaction bank, I’m inclined to believe, is more complex than that of a conductor of an orchestra, even one with a considerable heritage of musical excellen...
I have just received a letter from Barclaycard telling me that they are not just withdrawing their innovative OnePulse card but are also simplifying their range of credit cards. While the withdrawal o...
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published a consultation paper on draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) on the margin periods for risk used for the treatment of clearing members’ exposur...
Throughout 2013 there was a gradual realisation that the previous year’s scaremongering about the so called ‘collateral crunch’ was unfounded. It is now better understood within the markets that there...
Browsing through the pages of the FT website the other week I was amazed to discover an article which predicted the rise of a cashless China. Highlighting the recent explosion in credit/debit cards, o...
EBA report on the impact of differences in leverage ratio definitions under the CRR identifies data issues at several banks The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published a report which contains ...