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Despite the virtues of the global economy, production has now outstripped planetary boundaries and the environment is now contending with mass-scale pollution. The Pacific trash vortex, a gyre of pl
Amid a deluge of payments announcements, three or four will have a big impact in the coming months and years. Some common market trends can be seen amongst the million dollar bets. Mobile World Congre...
In 2011, the African Union and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa formed a ‘High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows’ to investigate the extent to which illicit financial flows (IFF) are...
There’s a groundswell of opinion in the US calling for the widespread adoption of 'Chip and PIN' to go alongside the move to EMV chip cards for credit and debit purchases. Last year the President sign...
The Shanghai Exchange: China’s First Step for Options After much speculation and delay, February 9, 2015 marked the day when China launched her first publicly traded stock options exchange in Shanghai...
Early Adopters have been referred to as the rare breed of people who have the insight to match emerging technology to a strategic opportunity. What does your mental picture of this visionary person lo...
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has begun the process of forcing large banks to conform to its heightened expectations for risk management. Evidence of what these new standards cou...
The Durbin Amendment has failed on its promises to US merchants with savings eroded by misapplied caps and replacement fees from card networks and acquirers, while only the savviest merchants are able...
Recent research on account opening from McKinsey looked at the sales conversion rates for branch versus digital and found what looks like a huge gulf in success. The research suggested that in-branch ...
When you think of banks and financial institutions, agility isn’t usually the first word that springs to mind. More oil tanker than speedboat when it comes to making sudden changes in direction, it’s ...
Privacy used to mean changing clothes behind a partition. Nowadays, say “privacy” and people are likely to think in terms of cyberspace. Stay connected, and you risk losing your privacy. Even if you’r...
It can be said with reasonable authority about the contemporary global banking system that investors in bank securities and counterparties to banks’ derivatives conduct their transactions on TRUST and...