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Despite what you hear and read about SEPA it is a fact that it has failed to achieve any notable volume since it went live. At a recent conference chaired by yours truly a number of eminent speakers f...
The economic crisis is a worldwide problem of gargantuan proportions, which is causing an increasing number of Governments to take unusual and dynamic actions to try and prop up the banking system aga...
Now I know we live in difficult times and just about everything is on the rise but lunch at SIBOS is taking pricing to a new level. With virtually no choice of food on the exhibition floor my colleagu...
Now we are all back in the office, it is timely to reflect on last week at Sibos, momentous by any measure. The Closing Plenary certainly caught the mood, but interwoven throughout that session was a ...
In one of today’s SIBOS panel debates we managed to convince an informed audience that hedge funds are not the root of all evil, and hopefully I’ll be able to convince you. The market event of
As we approach the end of Sibos, activity in the exhibition halls continues, at least for us, at a high level. Outside the Sibos 'bubble', when the media intrude, it seems that all hell has broken loo...
Exceptions are the curse of the payments industry; They are the risk They are the cost They are the operational inefficiency As an industry we need to apply the same level of technology to the except
With corporate social responsibility on the conference agenda at Sibos for the first time, I thought it would be interesting to have a chat with Swift's own CSR manager to talk about the co-operative'...
What a difference a year makes. Only this week, we have seen the Financial Services sector go through further turmoil and in the past 12 months, the news pages were filled with bail-outs, bankruptcies...
A survey by my company - ACI Worldwide - at Sibos found that 78 percent of those delegates questioned who expressed an opinion ‘strongly agree' or ‘agree' that the migration to SEPA instruments has b...
Writing this, I come fresh from yesterday’s SIBOS panel on the merits of central authority intervention in the capital markets. The timeliness of the topic made the discussion a livelyone, especiall
Growth in Transaction Banking; are banks going back to basics or is there a killer application ? While the global financial markets face severe meltdown, one area within banking quietly continues to p...