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I have just recieved a e-mail from LinkedIn to say that i am i the top 1% of most viewd profiles from their 200m users. Gutted! I thought i was more famous than that! Anyway it does demonstrate the ma...
Many of the business processes that are going to need to be changed in order to make use of the new Legal Entity Identifiers are already included in the FIX Protocol that many thousands of investments...
Like trains SEPA had a timetable, which like the railways is open to change due to foreseen and unforeseen circumstances. The SEPA project has certainly been on the slow line keeping up the train anal...
The BBC recently published an interesting article “Why banks are likely to face more software glitches in 2013”. This is something that we should all be concerned about. As payments become more of a...
Now, it may seem flippant of me to claim you can distil the ‘perfect’ fraud system down to five steps, but I’ve given it a go nonetheless by listing the five things that are going to be top of my list...
Been reading quite a bit lately about how good old-fashioned equities are finding their way back into investors' favour. And this time it is more than just the indices that are on the move, volume tra...
Everyone’s talking about enterprise (business) governance. Typically conversations focus on the application of structured controls across the enterprise to ensure enterprise-wide collaboration between...
Despite the growth of automated, electronic trading – whether high-speed or algorithmic or plain vanilla – voice trading is still a key element of markets in most asset classes, and in particular wher...
A recent CUinsight article by this topic explores the untapped up-side in marketing via the eStatements channel. The post was made by a vendor in this business. Nothing wrong with selling, but... In m...
The Financial Services Club released their latest survey research last week – The Changing Face of Payments 2013. The survey had responses from 450 financial services professionals in a total of 63 c...
Exponential A year after the iPhone was launched, Nokia's CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo was still bullish: “iPhone is a niche product.” Five years later, Nokia lost its mobile crown to Apple. What didn'...
Even with the newly announced December 28th mandates by the Mexico SAT, there is still quite a bit of confusion in the marketplace. If you run a Shared Services environment or if you are in charge ta...