961 Results from 2012
Retired Member
Ask yourself this question: When it comes to simplification, who am I considering? The business The customer’s life Both? The success of your paperless campaign will be measured by your answer. No need to be cryptic here. The most triumphant campaigns producing the fastest return on investment will simplify both your customer’s life and your o...
03 December 2012
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Europe 17.12.2008 Dear Santa, We have been really nice, technology-neutral and hardworking Experts this year and look forward to You bringing us a few presents to play around with in 2009. The first wish is a book - more precisely a handbook. We namely wrote a letter to the EU Commission in July and asked for Equal Treatment of paper and e-invoici...
03 December 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
In a world where a Twitter tweet can be heard around the world instantly, a friend’s video on YouTube can go viral overnight, and you can speak to anyone online across the globe without using a phone, it seems backwards that the local hospital may still be keeping your medical information in a filing cabinet. This situation is starting to change, ...
03 December 2012 /security
Today’s market of online lending business in the UK is facing an explosive rise. In this article, we study this situation to discover that it reflects an emerging global trend. Banks are adopting the internet at a high pace. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers research, by 2015 more people will interact with their banks digitally than through branc...
30 November 2012 /retail Online Banking
Just when I was hoping to start thinking about the Christmas holidays (beginning with the first of the season’s parties this week) we’ve seen a bunch of announcements on the European consolidated tape, including those from FPL and The COBA Project. Everyone acknowledges that the lack of an agreed tape of record makes any concept of true best exec...
29 November 2012 /regulation
Are we entering a Golden era of small, agile businesses that can innovate quickly and disrupt the incumbent corporations of the 20th century? I certainly think this is possible in the banking and finance sector. The evidence for me is not the P2P lending markets but the online pay day loan platforms such as Wonga. One thing the banks can’t do is f...
29 November 2012
Last week, Deutsche Bank ran a SEPA outreach event, bringing the practicalities of migration to SEPA compliance to a large group of their current and prospective clients. The end date of course is February 2014. But with code freezes typical at year-end, for all intents and purposes SEPA compliance projects need to be complete a year from now. For ...
29 November 2012 /payments Transaction Banking
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
FIX has become the major messaging protocol in global financial markets and has arguably been the single most influential technical development in financial markets in the last twenty years. To a large degree it has long met its original objectives but there is still much that can be achieved so the future of FIX perhaps needs to be redefined. Jus...
Groggily, Jovy reaches for his Blackberry as the blinking trackball catches his eye. The screen reads "3 New Messages". It's already eight in the morning and he has to rush. He runs through the messages. The first is from his fiancée. The other two are from his bank; one regarding his salary credit, the other about a monthly debit toward...
29 November 2012 /retail
With Asian economies booming, smart banks are capitalising on opportunities to boost their trade finance business. But how do financial institutions from the developed world ensure market share? If they are too slow to act, they may be left with the crumbs rather than a representative share of the trade finance pie. To start with banks must be sur...
28 November 2012 /sibos /wholesale
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