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The explosion of mobile device use has revolutionized the way in which consumers and businesses make transactions today. At one time, the only way to make a payment was in person or through the mail. ...
Look back to Lehman’s and regulators uncovered 2,985 legal entities operating across 50 countries. No one understood their counterparty relationships with the rest of Wall Street or across the globe. ...
This question is fundamental in so many areas of life and business. When faced with the decision to change direction in favor of something new or continue with what has provided support for years, we ...
The emergence of a host of new players in the UK retail banking market is giving the traditional powerhouses food for thought. According to the Office of Fair Trading, the big four banks - HSBC, Royal...
Based on the work I have done on reconciliations for some of the largest investment banks in the world, including those in America, Canada and the UK I'm convinced that there is room for improvement i...
The desire of being able to access content quickly, simply and on multiple devices has fuelled the use of the cloud for consumers, with Gartner estimating that by 2016, consumers will store over a thi...
I’m often asked by clients and prospects about what I’m seeing in the market in terms of regulatory onboarding and entity data management. And what I see right now is that a regulatory storm is brewin...
Anyone who spent the last fortnight at these two events will have been struck by the growing divide in the fintech industry: between old and new, physical and digital, Wall Street and Silicon Valley. ...
There’s no shortage of startups in the financial services industry. Whether they’re online-only financial institutions or diversified financial services companies that are using the Web to expand into...
Data is one of the world’s most precious commodities. And companies dealing in commodities are facing ever complex data sets, more regulations, tighter trading timelines and depressed markets. Those l...
It seems you can't get away from the cloud and all the hype that surrounds it. I was browsing through the Ovum report "The Critical Role for Cloud in the Transformation of Retail Banks", wh...
The FCA found that two of the 17 investment managers surveyed in its recent review of research payments had sufficient processes to meet their guidelines. Although the financial regulator was disappoi...