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This month, we hosted Basware Experience in London. As well as a whole host of customers and partners, we welcomed Henry Ijams, Managing Director, Paystream Advisors, who presented on ‘Accounts Payabl...
The FCA’s proposal to ban funding research from commission payments is a groundbreaking step, marking the first action of its kind seen in over 200 years. The consultation period following the publica...
Earlier this month Mark Boleat, head of policy for the City of London, gave a serious warning to the financial services industry as he prepared to address the Institute of International Finance in Was...
AML. Dodd-Frank. OTC Derivatives reform. The Volcker rule. Basel IV. FATCA. GATCA. The list goes on but the introduction of new local and global regulations shows no signs of abating. Against this bac...
Fund information for investors is a bit of a mess. For more than a decade the investment community relied on the printed fund factsheet – two glorious pages of investment enlightenment for the end inv...
"It's a sensitive space, people still associate it with criminality and dubious activities - like the internet in the early days" When Finextra wrote a story about Epiphyte winning the Innot...
The press often talks about Hadoop as if it were a single technology or even a product. This is far from the truth and creates a false expectation in the industry about the complexity of using Hadoop ...
The old joke about “How do you eat an elephant? – one bite at a time!” can be applied to compliance issues as well: dealing with them department-by-department within the firm is one way of breaking do...
With the blink of an eye another Sibos came and went. The containers have been shipped out and it’s back to the old grind. Real projects. Deadlines. Pesky users. Endless meetings. Production pro...
Earlier this year the United Arab Emirates Banks Federation - incorporating the leading banks of the country - announced the launch of a Mobile Wallet project. The project is part of the UAE’s Smart ...
Leveraging IT’s own operational data for improved operational excellence Have you ever been looking for something, only to find that what you were looking for was right under your nose? This thought o...
We’ve heard the acronym BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for some time now, but less about ‘COPE’ – Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled devices; tablets, smartphones and laptops which are owned by the ent...