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Are financial services firms ready for the KYC risk management revolution?

As new know your customer (KYC) rules are being implemented by countries around the world, banks and investment management companies are beginning to realize the scale of the challenge around managing their KYC data is about to become substantial. New best practice is “dynamic” KYC – knowing where a particular client stands against increasing regu...

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Ben O'Brien

Ben O'Brien Managing Director at Jaywing

BoE expect significant investment in stress testing models

Although the latest stress testing results revealed there has been significant improvement in stress testing processes since last year, the results also identified considerable variation across banks. During the 2015 stress test, the Bank of England (BoE) undertook a review of banks’ stress testing model frameworks – having found that they were wea...

/regulation /retail

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MiFIR: How ISINs Work: 3

It’s surprising how many people think that ISINs (International Securities Identification Numbers) are free. In practice, very little around ISO standards is free, other than the time and effort that volunteers around the world give in helping to develop ISO standards. Even a copy of the specification of the ISIN standard has to be bought, and y...

/regulation

Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions

Winners Incite Action. Losers Wait For Actionable Insight

As a tech marketer, I constantly preach that technology must solve a real-life problem for it to enter the mainstream. I also believe that it's the technology provider's job to explicitly convey how their product or service alleviates concrete pain areas. In the context of analytics, this would mean that analytics is useful as long as you know what...

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A more holistic view of a regulatory compliance framework

Following on from my post last week about the need for a ‘regulatory compliance framework’, I will now examine the importance of taking a more holistic view of this challenge. We are now in a much better position to bring intelligent design and technology to bear in solving this problem and it’s vital that we should. However, the basic building bl...

/regulation

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Disrupting the Disruptors: Winning through Value

I’d like to consider what Value now means to the retail banking customer and what that means, in turn, for the retail banks that serve them. I'll offer a point of view on how banks have approached innovation in the past and the results; how this is changing but, arguably, not fundamentally or fast enough; and how new approaches to innovation offe...

/retail

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The Future Of ATM Software?

I recently attended The Payments Knowledge Forum in London. This annual gathering of users, suppliers and consultants in the transaction switching business has a 30 year history. It started as EBUG – The European BASE24 Users Group – before becoming a supplier-agnostic event after BASE24 owner ACI ended its involvement. The result is a highly f...

/retail

Ivy Schmerken

Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems

Equity Market Structure: The Buy-Side View

Buy side traders debating the pros and cons of the U.S. equity market structure recently gave high marks to the computerized stock trading landscape, though it didn’t take long for concerns to surface. At a Baruch College Financial Markets Conference on November 11, four heads of buy side institutional trading desks acknowledged that the market str...

/regulation

Anna Monteiro

Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com

THE CHALLENGE OF COMPLYING WITH THE AMENDED TRANSPARENCY DIRECTIVE MANDATES

First introduced in November 2013, the Amended Transparency Directive (TDA) provided EU member countries two years to conform their regulations to those adopted by the EU Commission. With the deadline having come and gone, the TDA is in a confused state with only a handful of countries meeting the 26 November effective date and the remaining in va...

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