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Steve Scott

Senior Product Manager, Business Banking

Temenos

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12 Jan 2007

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Sibos - Midpoint view

Having had a sabbatical of several years from Sibos it has been great to return to the community at Sibos 2016 in Geneva. So what has changed? The grid layout of the exhibition still provides delegates with exercise aplenty. Judging by the number of stands with business card draws for fitness trackers and the “health corners” now we can strive t...

28 September 2016 /sibos

Pay Attention or You May Lose More Than Your Shirt!

Pay Attention! - The title of one episode of the National Geographic Channel’s series called Test Your Brain. The progamme explores how our attention selects the things we see, hear and interact with in the world. It shows the ease with which illusionists can distract victims to relieve them of their valuables conditioning them and gaining their...

24 October 2011 /regulation

Real Time Reconciliation Crucial To Managing Liquidity Risk

It's interesting to hear it said at IPS2011 that performing real time reconciliation is crucial to managing liquidity risk . I would agree with this but for the fact that if the demand is really there then why is it that the necessary data is so hard to come by? Crucial implies that this is must have data, but what are banks doing to ensure tha...

23 March 2011 /payments /regulation SWIFT Matters

Are Banks nervous about Banking Apps?

I downloaded the NatWest iPhone App recently and at first thought it was just great, but now I'm getting bored with it. Presentation is fine, navigation no problems, but functionally it now seems lacking. I want it to do more, I want to be able make payments, account transfers, edit standing orders etc. I also want to do the same with my accounts...

01 March 2010 /retail

Effective Liquidity Management tools at your fingertip?

· What’s the latest balance? · What’s arrived that I’m not expecting? · Has what I’ve paid settled? · What’s in the queues? · How are my counterparties performing? · Where are my risks? · Where can I get more liquidity? · Where’s my liquidity gone? After reading on FT.com the piece by ...

23 July 2009 /regulation