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With the London Olympics in full swing, one can’t help but think of the state of our industry and the challenges ahead. When it comes to regulation and compliance for the capital markets, we certainly face an Olympian task. At present, we aren’t exactly in fighting form. The industry has sustained several serious injuries, hampering its ability to ...
09 August 2012 /regulation
I was listening to some music from my youth - Little Fluffy Clouds - The Orb - whilst watching the thunder clouds gather outside of my office. We all know that clouds live in the sky, these amorphous collections of water droplets high above our heads, drifting from location to location, with no intervention from us on the ground. To a great extent...
07 August 2012 /security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo
The introduction of the proposed Standard Legal Identifier (LEI) is a golden opportunity for many financial institutions to enhance and improve overall client data management and achieve the coveted cleansed legal entity data repository. The ability to assign a single, unique identifier to each and every legal entity - that can be shared both with...
07 August 2012 /regulation /wholesale Data Management 101
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
NFC is an acronym for near field communication, a wireless technology that allows devices to talk to each other. In the case of a mobile wallet application, those devices would be a mobile phone and a point of sale device at a checkout counter. Visa is testing out its NFC service PayWave contactless payment service at the Summer Olympics in London....
07 August 2012 /security /regulation
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
I grew up in a world where a run on the ‘bank’ was never realistically going to happen. I grew up in a world where when someone wished to declare the truthfulness of their assertion they’d simply say “you can take that to the bank” or when it was a sure thing they’d say “you can bank on it!” I grew up in a world where the government ‘guaranteed’ m...
01 August 2012 /regulation /retail Finance 2.0
There are some things in life that require a “professional” to get the job done properly. You wouldn’t let your cousin Larry who’s a landscaper reset a broken bone in your hand right? You can certainly go to a hardware store and buy all the wood to build a deck, but just because you know how to swing a hammer doesn’t mean the deck will be safe, or...
31 July 2012 /security /regulation
You may have heard the term jailbreaking or rooting in regards to your mobile phone, but what is this and what does it really mean for you? Jailbreaking is the process of removing the limitations imposed by Apple and associated carriers on devices running the iOS operating system. To “jailbreak” means to allow the phone’s owner to gain full access ...
28 July 2012 /security /regulation
The day after you get your shiny new mobile or tablet, chances are you’ll take it right to work and request the IT department to set it up with your work email and allow access to the company network. “Bring your own device” (BYOD) has become widely adopted to refer to workers bringing their personal mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets an...
Client data and reference data management are topics that are very much in the spotlight at the moment as global regulators move to introduce new legal requirements and more stringent standards (such as Legal Entity Identifier) to bring about greater data governance and improve the overall quality and integrity of client data. However, with so ma...
24 July 2012 /regulation Data Management 101
Decision automation systems in banks are moving from the frontiers of innovative thinking to a mainstream necessity. Executives realize that they either innovate or stagnate. Nine out of 10 banks have reconsidered their approaches to the synergy between IT and customer satisfaction, and are in the process of reconsidering (or soon will) reconsider...
17 July 2012 /regulation Financial Risk Management
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