30 Results from 2014, /wholesale
Retired Member
I went along to this PRMIA event on Thursday evening hosted by Credit Suisse and sponsored by Acacia Capital. Viktoria Baklanova introduced the panel with Joseph Tenaga as MC for the panel and very quickly got a plug in for her about to be released book written with Joe on money market funds. For those of us who don't know so much about money mar...
25 March 2014 /regulation /wholesale Data Management 101
Patricia Hines Head of Corporate Banking at Celent
In today’s competitive environment, financial services firms are faced with the challenge of maximizing revenue, reducing attrition, and maintaining customer relationships. That means adopting a holistic approach when it comes to developing true customer-centricity, the cornerstone of client lifecycle management. I define client lifecycle manageme...
25 March 2014 /wholesale Transaction Banking
Let’s face it. Complexity is a fact of life in financial services. Mergers and acquisitions, organizational changes, and service offerings across multiple locations result in a maze of disparate and disconnected applications and platforms. In this environment, radical action is needed to lower maintenance costs, improve operational efficiency an...
13 March 2014 /retail /wholesale
What’s the Best Solution for Delivering a Client-Centric Experience? Financial institutions have so many choices regarding service delivery in every aspect of customer interaction. There are packaged applications, traditional CRM packages, in-house custom solutions, as well as modern business process management (BPM) suites. All of these solution...
13 March 2014 /wholesale
Prosumer is a portmanteau originally formed by contracting producer with the word consumer. In a commercial environment, it describes a market segment between professional and consumer. (Wikipedia) Portland, the main city of Oregon, has little to do with the techie Silicon Valley or the greedy and sophisticated city which is home to Wall Street. Fo...
28 February 2014 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
Blinded by the mega deal between Facebook and the 50 employees company WhatsApp for obscene amount of 16 Billion USD, for many followers of digital gossip, the news about the acquisition of Simple Bank by the Spanish group BBVA went almost unnoticed. It’s true that the value of the deal, EUR 100 Mio looks ridiculous in comparison, however I want t...
24 February 2014 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
Paul Blank e-Trading Solutions at TradAir
Last week saw the introduction of mandatory execution on new SEF platforms for certain standardised interest rate swaps. Such swaps will no longer be executed bilaterally between banks and their clients, but rather must be executed anonymously on SEFs. The move to SEF trading has however been tentative, with many buy-side firms holding back, nonet...
Can Improving Your Global Client Experience Create a Strategic Advantage in Banking? Late last year, The Banker hosted a roundtable session at the Association of Financial Professionals (AFP) annual meeting for treasurers and chief financial officers. At the roundtable*, 12 transaction bankers from top-tier banks reflected on the state of the ind...
20 February 2014 /wholesale
Amit Agrawal NA at in transit
Risk Weights Assets (RWA) allocate an amount of capital to the assets held by a financial institution as a function of their risk perception and the origination nature (the higher the perceived risk, the higher the risk weight). RWA are core input in the calculation of a financial institution capital ratio and were first introduced in Basel I Anyw...
23 January 2014 /regulation /wholesale Financial Risk Management
Ganesh Guruvayur Senior Vice President, Head, Hub Solutions at Intellect Design Arena
Partner Finance as a concept is the fall out of risk control measures set within banks that cap the exposures that the banks can take towards a borrowing entity. This is conceptually similar to consortium lending or syndicated finance that is prevalent in the banking world. The latter deals with large ticket capital expenditures incurred by large ...
02 January 2014 /wholesale
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