1270 Results from 2013
Retired Member
Is relationship pricing and billing on your radar for 2013? Did you know? For every $1 billion in annual revenue generated by global transaction services, banks can “leak” upwards of $25 million – revenue they should be collecting. Let’s face it. There’s no shortage of challenges currently facing global transaction banking. Against a backdrop of in...
31 January 2013 /wholesale
"Many Americans would rather clean toilets than try to come up with a new username or password for sites requiring online logins, a new study shows."* Protecting confidential information within biller self-serve websites through enrollment, and the choosing and remembering of a unique username and password is a process that is universal...
31 January 2013 /security /payments
Michel Barnier, the EU commissioner heading up regulatory reform of European banks, has this week signalled that Brussels is set to think twice on ringfencing. Apparently, EU officials are working on a “precise impact analysis” of the Liikanen report. The principle recommendation of the report is that banks’ trading activities should be tightly cor...
31 January 2013 /regulation
It’s that time of year again… the RBS 6 Nations kicks off this weekend and as a result so does (the arguably more important) Finextra Fantasy League on ESPN Scrum.com. As with previous years, it’s free and easy to play and Finextra will award a bottle of champagne to the winner. There is a ‘lucky-dip’ team selection option so even if you have no id...
31 January 2013 /payments /wholesale After hours
Jim Marous Publisher at The Financial Brand
Trying to predict what is going to happen in the banking industry is like trying to predict tomorrow's weather. While you may get the forecast right, it could be more a case of luck than skill. And what you see today could quickly change tomorrow. With that as the backdrop, I asked almost fifty industry leaders who author blogs I read, post on Twit...
31 January 2013 /retail Disruption in Retail Banking
Alistair Kelman barrister and forensic computing expert at Self employed
In October 2011 amid a blaze of publicity H.P., a company which mainly produces hardware and devices like inkjet and laser printers, announced it had agreed to pay $11.1 bn for Autonomy, a UK company that produced sophisticated software. Dr Mike Lynch the CEO of Autonomy, said the deal had opened a “fascinating new chapter” for his company as part...
31 January 2013 /security /regulation
I’m in the Netherland today, talking to financial institutions about Payments. Since the Euro was introduced in the EU, the challenge for payment processors has been pretty clear: how do you become the lowest-cost processor of Euro-denominated payments in the world? Standardisation across multiple countries creates opportunities and threats. Whe...
30 January 2013 /payments
When it comes to banking, innovation may not be as compelling a priority as managing cost, risk or compliance. But it is definitely on the strategic agenda given its potential in driving differentiation, customer acquisition and growth. No surprise then that 73% of the global banks featured in the 4th edition of the EFMA Infosys Innovation in Reta...
30 January 2013 /retail
Martin Bailey Technology Product Director at Temenos
Reports on customer loyalty may differ on the exact number of people who are changing banks, but they all agree that customers are getting more promiscuous. The bad news is that I don't think we've seen anything yet. Mobile phone vendors eye how often customers change their banks with envy. The race to acquire new customers is on. In the UK, Maks ...
30 January 2013 /sibos /retail Innovation in Financial Services
In New York the meeting was held today for the organisations that are interested in bidding to provide and run CAT NMS – the Consolidated Audit Trail system for the National Market System of the USA. Keeping a full audit train of all securities operations across all market participants, being able to reconstruct what happened to every order, provid...
29 January 2013
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