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World Paper free Day (6th November) encourages businesses to reduce the amount of paper they generate. It’s difficult to imagine that in this day and age businesses still rely on hard copy. Yet that ...
The line between sport and business has been blurred for some time now. Sport often borrows analytical elements from corporations and manages their players like professionals, and on the other hand bu...
We know of the potential for big data in financial services to detect fraud, to hunt down rogue traders, upsell services – the list is endless. Depending on who you talk to, big data is anything from ...
As of today banking industry has been experiencing most challenging times in its history because of Digital Disruption. Every banker agrees that there is a great risk of losing market share against ne...
Having just returned from SIBOS where every one was talking about real time and digital payments, my contrarian mind was tempted to think about cash and batch. Cash Cash has existed among humans for 2...
The definition of algorithmic trading under MiFID II is extremely broad, essentially capturing any functionality that determines any parameter of an order automatically. That begs the question, what o...
Why do you need an alternative? Current model is unable to serve a large base of potential consumers Existing model is costly and unaffordable In case of lending (specifically small value lending) t...
In my last two blogs, I’ve talked about looming pressures on banks and financial institutions as digitisation continues to disrupt business models, and risks to both market share and longevity if the...
Analysts agree that the China slowdown is real, but are we seeing the big picture? The World Expected Worse but Chinese Data Didn't Comply Q3 economic growth in China came in at 6.9%. The consensus ...
Against the backdrop of the ever-increasing importance of collateral from a trading, risk and capital management perspective, holistic management of collateral is rapidly becoming a necessity. The pro...
The Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) approach used for Transaction Reporting in the UK has been unique across Europe. While MiFID I required investment firms to report equity transactions to regula...
Recently published World Payments Report 2015 talked about the contribution of prepaid cards/wallets in Singapore’s journey towards Cashless economy. Over the period of time prepaid instruments have b...