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Pat Carroll

Malware , the Achilles Heel of Mobile Adoption

Malware is hitting mobile like nobody’s business. It is a sad fact of life - hackers, fraudsters, cyber-criminals and the like will never go away and will evolve and adapt as our payment landscape ev...

30 Jan 2014
Innovation in Financial Services
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EIOPA updates its guidelines under Solvency II

EIOPA updates Q&As on guidelines regarding submission of information to NCAs on credit default swaps under Solvency II The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has update...

30 Jan 2014
Financial Services Regulation
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Data Integration: Data Architecture Needs Data Privacy

A data integration hub is a proven system which provides a self service model for publishing data. Such a hub can enable certain information to be made readily available for a variety of users. Howeve...

30 Jan 2014
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Speed Dating by Candlelight - The Growth of Twilight Pools

With today’s fragmented markets, firms are faced with an increasingly wide choice of trading venues on which they can execute their business. The majority of these fall into one of two categories; eit...

30 Jan 2014
Bo Harald

Why you should ASK for proper e-invoices

With proper I mean structured e-invoicing - not e-mailing PDFs (as bad as paper mail - or even worse due to spam filters..). So why? Your supplier Especially small enterprises can easily move into e-i...

30 Jan 2014
Innovation in Financial Services
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What stops people switching bank accounts? The Abbey habit

The new Current Account Switching Service in the UK has now been live for four months, and has been accompanied by a pretty impressive marketing campaign – TV ads, radio, print, web and even billboard...

30 Jan 2014
Innovation in Financial Services
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What the FFIEC social media guidance can teach UK firms

What is this all about? The FCA plans to publish new social media guidance for UK financial service companies in 1Q14. This follows the final version release of the Official FFIEC Guidelines for Soci...

30 Jan 2014
Social Banks
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ATM Charging Woes

“Whatever services we give, ultimately it has to be a win-win situation…. We just want a commercially viable model, I cannot afford to lose month after month,” State Bank of India (SBI) Chairperson Ar...

30 Jan 2014
Asia Financial Services
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PRA to comply with most guidelines for Solvency II

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has updated its webpages on its guidelines on preparing for Solvency II to include the responses of competent authorities in EEA Memb...

30 Jan 2014
Financial Services Regulation
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Bitcoin vs real life

Heated polar debates over Bitcoin are in full swing. Even the banking community, let alone non-fin companies, are divided in their opinion. With over 80 (!) competitors and wannabes, Bitcoin is not ...

29 Jan 2014
Innovation in Financial Services
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FX trade reporting: What a difference a day makes

With the EMIR trade reporting deadline only two weeks away, you might be forgiven for expecting that there is now absolute clarity on which trades are covered by the mandate, and that all participants...

29 Jan 2014
Kishen Gajjar

The must of trust: preserving customer privacy

“May I have your data?” ”Depends on who’s asking!” Banks need data from customers to provide them with a differentiated service. They won’t get very far though, until they establish themselves as resp...

29 Jan 2014

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