1270 Results from 2013
Martin Bailey Technology Product Director at Temenos
When my dad wanted to underline something as especially true, he would use the phrase "you can take that to the bank." If someone wanted to underline the chances of something making money, they would say "as good as money in the bank". Both these phrases stem from the bank's reputation for safety. In the good old days, banks we...
26 March 2013 /regulation /retail Transaction Banking
Retired Member
Separating the alpha from the beta - savvy investors know they need to separate the alpha, or investment gains made from decisions made by manager, from the beta, or returns attributable to the market. Traditionally this has meant seeing how individual funds or managers do compared with an index or other baseline. But these simple measurements hav...
26 March 2013 /regulation
Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo
Attending a data management event last week in London, it suddenly dawned on me that banks are in real danger of missing regulatory deadlines for implementation of compliance initiatives to comply with FATCA, Dodd-Frank, EMIR and MiFID II. Not surprising given the convergence of implementation dates and deadlines that are taking place and the limi...
26 March 2013 /regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation
Few people paid attention to the following interesting fact: the much-rumored iWatch as well as its now-rumored competitor by Samsung are said to have an internal SIM card. Both smartwatches will also have Bluetooth that allows them to be linked to the phone. Let me connect the dots: that's your operator-agnostic dual-SIM solution, if implemented c...
25 March 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
It’s all about future-proofing the bank’s risk and compliance. The recent credit crisis has underscored the importance of proactive risk mitigation for banks. Banks need to first effectively and efficiently identify the potential risks associated with each and every banking process and then measure the same. Every process, operation and service pe...
25 March 2013 /regulation /retail
Eric Smith Senior Pre-Sales Consultant at Dynamic Partners
The world of payments has, of late, become like a sharks feeding frenzy. Blood in the water... well money. There are new announcements being made daily. New partnerships. New programme launches. New approaches and technological innovations. New cool apps and payment devices. So many “disruptive” propositions. It’s wonderful and yet it is also confu...
25 March 2013 /payments
Watching how data volumes coming out of the Chicago derivatives markets have been growing is what you do when you have to build IT infrastructure to support a modern bank or broker anywhere in the world. Moore’s Law, where processors double in power every 18 months, becomes a practical bottleneck, because the world isn’t governed by Moore’s Law o...
25 March 2013
It's sunny day and Simon steps in to local grocery store wearing his Google classes. He is thirsty. Grabbing a can of soda he walks to check out desk. "Google Class - payment" says Simon and his classes bring him menu screen where are Cards and Checkout as option. Same time Google class GPS system locates him to Jim's Grocery store next...
25 March 2013 Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Paul Love VP Business Development at Konsentus
When the going gets tough ... The cash gets going One item of news that stood out about the citizens of Cyprus struggling to come to terms with their predicament, was that the British government have effectively underpinned Cash as the default payment method in a time of crisis, as "Britain flies out cash for troops". While the banks in...
22 March 2013 /payments
In a speech by the Chairman of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) confirmed the plan to develop guidelines to ensure that supervisory authorities put in place a prospective and risk based supervisory approach. The aim is to prepare supervisors and affected firms for the new regime in a consistent way. The guidelin...
22 March 2013 Financial Services Regulation
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