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Oleg Popov Senior Principal Business Analyst at Temenos UK
Banking industry transformation is an articulate demand coming both from the public and the regulators these days. How to approach that and what needs to be done is a matter of intense search and debate. Attached is a white paper on a potential approach to transform the UK banking industry. In fact, not necessarily the UK one only. In case there ...
30 November 2013 /regulation /retail
Retired Member
Several recent surveys show that the number of larger projects which are truly successful is well under fifty per cent. Some are outright failures; others fail to fulfil business objectives in some way or other. The larger a project is, the more likely it is to fail – and this is across all sectors. Almost half of all projects end up over budget a...
29 November 2013 /regulation Banking Architecture
Dan Barnes Writer at Information Corporation
Cooperative and community banks enjoy a special place in the hearts of the people, often giving them special regulatory status too. However in an age that has debunked many of the theories of capitalist economics, it worth noting that the cooperative theory of ‘Friendly Societies’ is failing too. Rabobank’s rating downgrade by Fitch last Thursday ...
28 November 2013 /regulation Future Finance
As football/soccer pundits will be well aware, “Tiki-Taka” is a style of play popularized by both FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team. Characterized by speed, accuracy and control, it’s already proved a winning formula for footballers. But could a Tiki-Taka approach also help the risk managers of tomorrow achieve their goals? They may be op...
28 November 2013 /regulation
Amit Agrawal NA at in transit
One of the advantage of the financial crisis is that banking regulators focus more on liquidity then capital. Hence Basel Committee's focussed in Basel III to strengthen global capital and liquidity regulations with the goal of promoting a more resilient banking sector. It gives the birth of introducing new monitoring tools for liquidity risk. The...
28 November 2013 /regulation Financial Risk Management
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
It's been stop-start, but there are signs of growth. Reading Simon Strong's Finextra blog post about growing overheads as P2P lenders mature and become more regulated, and Dan Barnes' post about the growing involvement of traditional banks, got me thinking about the development of the P2P lending sector in Australia. There has been no shortage of...
27 November 2013 /regulation /retail Future Finance
It is still probably too early to derive meaningful conclusions from the impact of Swap Execution Facilities (SEF) on trading behavior. However, European regulators and counterparties can learn from the US experience as they implement the European equivalent of SEF – Organized Trading Facilities (OTF) as part of the Markets in Financial Instrument...
26 November 2013 /regulation
CMSpi is concerned that a decision on the introduction of polymer banknotes in the United Kingdom might be made without a suitable understanding of the costs and benefits of the change. We would like to see a framework which analyses and assesses these before deciding whether or not the fixed costs and operational challenges associated with polymer...
26 November 2013 /payments /regulation
With implementation just around the corner, most financial services firms would have hoped to now be making their final FATCA preparations. As it stands though, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act seems to have many reaching for the panic button. Layered with complexity and demanding in compliance, FATCA’s rollout next year will be a challenge...
26 November 2013 /regulation /retail Financial Services Regulation
The question of what algorithmic trading really is often gets blurred in heated discussions of the risks and dangers involved. We have already seen several regulatory initiatives aimed at containing the risks of what is referred to as “algorithmic trading,” and we’re likely to see more, so it has become increasingly important to be clear about sco...
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