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In a speech, Verena Ross, Executive Director, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), spoke about ESMA’s forthcoming work on the implementation of the revised Markets in Financial Instrument...
In two of my earlier posts on mobile payments, I talked about disruptive innovations in the mobile payments landscape and how the impending EMV deadlines could impact NFC adoption. In this post, I wil...
Financial Crisis have made the regulator active like never before and resulting in more and more upcoming regulations. This upsurge in the volume and velocity of regulations has unintended consequen
In a recent article, I discussed the concept of eSocial in Brazil – a new real-time integration requirement that will be focused on payroll taxes among other human resource issues. Well, Mexico actua...
Build, Buy, or Something Better? It’s not easy being a bank these days. Over the past five years the financial industry has faced a perfect storm of economic uncertainty, regulatory pressure, sustaine...
We've reached a point in the banking industry where banks need to decide what they want to be. A small handful are the undisputed leaders in the global transaction banking market and are recognised as...
The halls of Fira Gran Via, which plays host to Mobile World Congress (MWC), were as always a showcase for all sorts of digital technology. I was particularly interested to explore the halls asking my...
On 27th February 2014, the National Aeronautics and Space Association (NASA), in a joint mission with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) , launched the Global Precipitation Measurement Core...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a questions and answers (Q&As) document on the AIFM Directive to promote common supervisory approaches and practices in the appli...
After the successful 10th Anniversary of the Standards Forum at Sibos in Dubai SWIFT is kicking off the 2014 program in New York this week. This will be first of six meetings planned for this year; t...
Big Data Blog – Volcker “the Ultimate Big Data Challenge” Forbes Magazine published an article in December with the ominous title “Volcker Compliance: The Ultimate Big Data Challenge”. The article r...
FinTech has come a long way in the last five years. The segment moved from a few players tackling problems that financial institutions were slow to recognise, such as online payments, to disrupting th...