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In a recent report from Lepus, senior representatives from global investment banks indicated that current approaches to risk management are inadequate. As it stands, global investment banks are at d...
As hundreds of thousands of young adults reflect on their A-level results and look ahead to the future, they might do worse than to consider a career in IT. Demand for IT staff jumped 44% in July 2011...
I don’t want Facebook controlling my finances. Nor do I want to ‘poke’ my bank or become a ‘fan’ of my chosen institution. What I do want is the choice of how I bank and for my bank to be listening to...
The Independent Commission on Banking's (ICB) plans to ring fence the UK retail operations of universal banks to protect business lending and depositors assets have been highly publicised in recent w...
Big data is big news. George Osborne's announcement of the London ‘smart cities' project and the recent McKinsey report have thrust big data into the limelight. While certain sectors have only just be...
The publication last week of the latest Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) data on complaints sparked the usual ruckus, and understandably so. New cases for the FOS soared by 26 per cent in the year to...
The EBA’s announcement on stress testing methodology and scenarios left banks with more questions than answers, but following Andrea Enria’s announcement earlier this month, we now have a far clearer ...
“The European Union's stress tests on banks this year may be tougher and better organised than last year's, but still fall far short of settling the biggest worries over their health.” This was the co...