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A Finextra Member

Seven tips for being more productive

If you work in a big bank, broker, exchange or software vendor, you will recognize the relentless tsunami of email, phone calls, customer visits, conferences, project meetings, town halls and other &q...

24 Nov 2014
John Doyle

What Makes a Great Relationship Manager?

The Summary First, the summary for those that can't be bothered with the detail. A great relationship manager is someone who, Understands their customers business, Knows the customers strategy and wh...

23 Nov 2014
SWIFT Matters
Amit Agrawal

Risk Ratios

I thought let us talk about some of the rules and its impact on different regions Basel liquidity rule Covers : Banks worldwide What it does : Requires banks to hold enough cash or assets which can me...

22 Nov 2014
Financial Services Regulation
Lu Zurawski

Payment walls are crumbling - is it time for Payments EBRD?

Twenty-five years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall saw the creation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Its mission was to find capital to help re-build national infrastructures m...

21 Nov 2014
A Finextra Member

Banks and Merchants Must Have Their Own Payment Apps

Banks and merchants are under threat to lose millions of dollars in investment in their apps by allowing them to become obsolete because they don’t provide the most desired functionality of all: Payme...

21 Nov 2014
Anne Leslie-Bini

Solvency II: Preparing for Pillar 3 success

Looking back at this time last year, there was still a pre-conceived idea that once Pillar 1 and the ORSA were under control, Pillar III of Solvency II would necessarily be plain-sailing. After all, i...

21 Nov 2014
Ganesh Srinivasan

Payment Factory - Data integration strategy that counts

The benefits associated with the implementation of a payments factory have been achievable for some time now, with new, additional benefits and indeed challenges, being realized as payments processing...

21 Nov 2014
Anne Plested

Stuck between a rock and a hard place

First proposed way back in 2011, work has been ongoing to narrow down the details of a common financial transaction tax (FTT) to be introduced across Europe. Back in May this year, all but one of the ...

20 Nov 2014
A Finextra Member

Forex rigging scandal underlines growing Dark Data issue

Ross McEwan, the chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, says he is “angry” with a “small group of people” following the bank’s shaming in the recent foreign exchange trading scandal. You can under...

20 Nov 2014
Robert Siciliano

10 tips to Secure Passwords

Ever wonder just how hackers bust into systems and cause destruction? One reason is because people are still using weak passwords. While your pet’s name and wedding anniversary dates are easy to remem...

20 Nov 2014
A Finextra Member

Compliance: now it’s getting personal

We may be on the brink of a new era in compliance – or at least in enforcement. This week the Bank of England Governor Mark Carney earned headlines around the world when he suggested that individuals...

20 Nov 2014
Bo Harald

Time for better and new Ecosystems

I had the opportunity to speak at the spectacular SLUSH-event in Helsinki. The main focus there is always on how startups are changing the world and should get more funding to do it even faster. My pr...

20 Nov 2014
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