1137 Results from 2015
Retired Member
These days I hear from many people who work in the regulatory compliance world that they are very busy people, working very long hours, their time being consumed with a number of competing and complex priorities. I will be posting a second blog next week outlining a holistic view to tackling these priorities. Though first I aim to analyse just exa...
23 November 2015 /regulation
Every business plan template / example that I have seen in the past several years always has a section around “Competitor Analysis”. Typical questions revolve around two areas: 1) Who are the competitors to your offering? and 2) How is what you are building different from what competition is doing? In all the business plans that I have persona...
23 November 2015
The word ‘digital’ is being used loosely and liberally these days. In fact, it has become more of an adjective than a noun. For example, there’s a whole campaign by the name of ‘Digital India’. When this word is attached to a country or an industry, it implies provision of services through self-service channels with restricted need of human interv...
Neelesh Parekh Advisor in Financial Services at .
Yes, that’s right - and you probably already know it too. We know that almost 90% of your fiercest competitors are planning to compete primarily on the basis of CX by the end of next year, the board has sponsored some small initiatives to get a feel for the size of the prize, and the challenge of delivering something to address it. But something j...
22 November 2015
Tinder, 3nder, schminder. Welcome to the new world where non-committal promiscuity is the norm of the day (if not de rigueur), both in personal life and in business. Welcome to the "tinder" world with "tinder" business models. One could say it all started with the "liberation of women" - being less dependent on men (h...
21 November 2015 /startups Innovation in Financial Services
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
A bug bounty refers to the reward a bad-guy hacker gets upon discovering a vulnerability, weakness or flaw in a company’s system. This is akin to giving a reward to a burglar for pointing out weaknesses in your home’s security. But whom better to ask than a burglar, right? Same with a company’s computer systems: The best expert may be the black hat...
20 November 2015 /security
Do You Have a Mobile commerce Strategy? By the end of 2015, mobile share is forecast to reach 33% in the US, and 40% globally. As a society that is ever connected, we are now online more than we are offline, all thanks to the little hardware wonder in our hands. Today we use our mobile phones for much more than just making a phone call. We use it...
20 November 2015 /payments Online Banking
Alex Noble Account Director at McAfee
I'm finding that I'm having very productive discussions with lawyers as ideas mature on how blockchain could be used in financial services I should stress that I'm a technologist rather than a lawyer – a student job at a firm of Edinburgh solicitors rapidly demonstrated that Scots law was not for me. However, if you wish to build a blockchain archi...
20 November 2015 Innovation in Financial Services
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
The US ecosystem for swap execution facilities continues to evolve, but not as rapidly as regulators and lawmakers anticipated. Despite the shift to electronic trading, some observers question if swaps trading has reached a new equilibrium. The vision of a buy-side trader sitting in front of a screen with the ability to anonymously click on stream...
19 November 2015 /regulation
When you are immersed in an industry it’s sometimes difficult to see how it’s really changing. Global financial markets are a good example of this as the populist headlines can easily miss the subtlety of what is really going on. The polemic against misbehaviour by some market participants is obviously deserved (estimates of the total in fines and...
19 November 2015
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