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2014 will also see Voice Biometrics becoming mainstream. Apple have paved the way for biometrics to be adopted in a mainstream manner with the introduction of fingerprint readers on the iPhone. Voice ...
Since the 2008 crisis, regulators (and therefore banks) have focussed on monitoring and understanding the risks in our financial system. This has led to the creation of a number of high profile regula...
The Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) is rewriting its handbook in order to create the PRA rulebook that will apply only to PRA authorised firms. The rulebook will aim to be consistent with PRA o...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its ninth policy development update which contains a timetable of forthcoming publications including: In Q1/2 2014 a policy statement to CP13/5 on ...
Picture the scene. I arrive last Sunday to participate in a sporting event. I park my car in a public car park next to the venue, a landscape of hills and woods. I sign on, warm up and spend the next ...
I can't say I was too surprised to see that Swedbank has scrapped its QR-code payment initiative. While the scanning of a QR-code could feasibly be used to trigger any function or transaction that ca...
The banking sector's approach to social media thus far can broadly be described as 'willing but watchful'. That's understandable, considering the compliance risks of committing to a medium where regul...
Well, it looks like I'll finally have to remember the PIN on my infrequently used credit card. Visa and Mastercard have got their way after lobbying regulators so come August 1, POS terminals will on...
T-Mobile US is stepping beyond cellphones and offering payment cards in the latest effort to differentiate its service from bigger rivals. The No. 4 U.S. mobile provider said it is offering a Visa car...
The financial services industry is bracing itself for the Financial Conduct Authority’s half-yearly update of customer complaints against firms in early April. The FCA is driving cultural change in th...
Risk Weights Assets (RWA) allocate an amount of capital to the assets held by a financial institution as a function of their risk perception and the origination nature (the higher the perceived risk, ...
Brazil Nota Fiscal version 3.1– (Part 6 of 6) OnPremise NFe Solutions or Cloud and Managed Service: Top 5 Reasons Why Companies are Using Brazil version 3.1 to Transition off of on-premise solutions ...