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Small Banks Risk IT Decisions Because They Wing Them

While large and mid-tier banks suffer from hernia of the brain when deciding on strategic IT plans, small banks go the other way while the CEO decides using seat-of-the-pants wisdom. Here are some go...

09 Jan 2014
Bo Harald

Looking back on 2013

2013 was the year when paper and e-mail invoicing was overtaken by structured e-invoicing in Finland. This is now happening with accelerating speed all over the world as governments and other payment ...

09 Jan 2014
Innovation in Financial Services
Dan Barnes

It's my cartel and I'll cry if I want to

Research by law firm Allen & Overy indicates that 2013 was a record year for fines awarded by anti-trust regulators, totalling US$4.2 billion up 10.5% from 2012’s US$3.8 billion, across Australia,...

09 Jan 2014
Future Finance
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Best of Breed Financial Crime and Compliance

When Best of Breed Financial Crime and Compliance “Point Solutions” Aren’t Enough Ranging from libor rate fixing to product miss-selling, 2012 was without doubt a busy year for regulators the world ov...

09 Jan 2014
Future Finance
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Brazil Nota Fiscal 3.1 - OnPremise versus Cloud Compliance

ERP Brazil Nota Fiscal version 3.1– (Part 4 of 6) On-premise Change management involves too many people, different groups, different system developers Top 5 Reasons Why Companies are Using Brazil ve...

09 Jan 2014
Electronic invoicing
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Good Apps: What are They And Why Are They So Great?

With nearly a billion people set to own a smartphone by 2015, the already flourishing app market is set to explode as new hardware technologies open up what is possible to achieve on a mobile device. ...

09 Jan 2014
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Are your payment systems safe and secure?

Are your payment systems safe and secure? Being a bank, financial institution, processor, merchant or a stakeholder of any part of the payment ecosystem then you most definitely have this thought on y...

09 Jan 2014
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EuroClearing houses voice concerns on EMIR trade reporting

The European Association of CCP Clearing Houses (EACH) has published a paper on trade reporting under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). The paper aims to provide the European Sec...

09 Jan 2014
Zennon Kapron

Of Bitcoin ATMs and regulation in Asia

Over the past week, Robocoin Technologies announced they were expanding their Bitcoin ATM offering into Asia with planned ATM installs in Taiwan and Hong Kong. If you're not familiar with the Bitcoin ...

09 Jan 2014
Asia Financial Services
Elton Cane

Gamification - what can we learn from 2013's top games?

Prompted by this article reviewing games created by central banks that I found in Finextra's always excellent Best of the Web section, I've recently been catching up on what's happening more broadly ...

09 Jan 2014
Future Finance
Robert Siciliano

Online shopping warnings and advice

Shopping online can be just as dangerous to your security as leaving your car unlocked in the mall parking lot. Consumer Reports notes the following: Don’t judge a website by its cover. A malicious ...

08 Jan 2014
Stanley Epstein

Operational risk management is NOT a joke

If you have been following the news these past few days you will have seen that JP Morgan is to pay a further $1.7 billion in fines under a deferred criminal prosecution agreement. JP Morgan’s problem...

08 Jan 2014

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