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On 15th January 2014, The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued a set of guidelines, "Sound management of risks related to money laundering and financing of terrorism", describing ho...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) estimates that microfinance has reached some 130 million people worldwide in the last 15 years. This is impressive growth, certainly, and has no doubt cont...
I am an ardent proponent of architectural principles as a way of guiding the work of solution architects. Based on solid The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) practice, one of my frequent ‘go-...
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has published: the full text of the Basel III leverage ratio framework and disclosure requirements following its endorsement by its governing body, th...
From 2001 to 2004, Target actively worked with Visa to push for smart-card use in its stores. The momentum was lost because of the concerns about cost, speed and the learning curve for clerks and cons...
Most websites should have a privacy policy (although I don’t think it’s always the easiest thing to find). And then once you do find it, you’ll see a huge amount of what I consider to be legal mumbo j...
Important note: Up until 2014, the requirement to utilize electronic invoicing for domestic invoices in Chile was voluntary. This meant that you could transition to electronic invoicing, but if you di...
The future belongs to customer-obsessed enterprises, according to Forrester CEO, George Colony. He says we are now in the "Age of the Customer", a 20-year business cycle in which the most su...
Analyst firm Gartner monitors the changing trends impacting the ICT industry and recently published its ideas surrounding the “nexus of four forces”. The research company, along with its rival IDC, ag...
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and the Futures and Options Association (FOA) have published the ISDA/FOA European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) Reporting Delegat...
Bitcoin enthusiasts were buzzing about the arrest of a high-profile promoter of the digital currency at Monday night's weekly Bitcoin trading session in Manhattan's financial district. Charlie Shrem's...
The Senior Financial Supervisors from 10 countries (the Senior Supervisors Group (SSG)) has issued a report to the Financial Stability Board (FSB) which assesses progress on measuring and reporting of...