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Rich Wagner

Rich Wagner CEO at APS

Is today a good day to become a bank? Maybe... Maybe Not!

When George Osborne announced that newly established challenger banks would no longer be exempt from the 8% tax that applies to the biggest banks, many of those at the helm of these new businesses will have swallowed – hard. They had expected to be let off, arguing that the levy should only apply to global banks of systemic importance, not the sma...

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Turn over a new leaf this paper-free day

World Paper free Day (6th November) encourages businesses to reduce the amount of paper they generate. It’s difficult to imagine that in this day and age businesses still rely on hard copy. Yet that is still the case in many banking and financial institutions when it comes to processing credit and loan applications. Unfortunately, a reliance on pa...

Kirsty Berry

Kirsty Berry Head of Product Marketing & Market Analytics at Compass Plus

Missing: A great mobile banking experience

Increasing numbers of UK consumers are downloading mobile banking apps and utilising them for everyday financial transactions, whether checking balances or transferring money between accounts. Research from CACI and the BBA suggests that customers will use their mobile device to check their current accounts 895 million times in 2015 in the UK, mor...

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Benjamin Thorpe

Benjamin Thorpe Director at Glory

Why Monitor an Attended Device?

Everywhere you look these days someone, somewhere, is monitoring something; CCTV on the streets, speed cameras on roads, entry and exit cameras in car parks, even your location via your Smartphone Apps, the list is endless. Not surprisingly that list includes the ATM you walk up to when you need cash; how else will someone know that it needs more ...

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Benjamin Thorpe

Benjamin Thorpe Director at Glory

A cash wager - what 17th century French philosophy can tell us about cash today

​If I remember one thing from university it is Pascal’s Wager. Blaise Pascal was a seventeenth century French philosopher, mathematician & writer. One of Pascal’s most famous works was the Pensées (Thoughts), which was published posthumously in 1670. His best known “thought” is often called Pascal’s wager and it goes like this: You start by

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Ivy Schmerken

Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems

MiFID II: The Buy Side Transparency Challenge

MiFID II is going to boost transparency in financial markets and improve and broaden best execution standards for the buy side, but not everyone is prepared to handle all the data. Last month, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published the final regulatory technical standards for MiFID II/MiFIR detailing its vision for how the ...

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Penny Hembrow

Penny Hembrow Global Lead, Financial Services at CGI

New research reveals why corporates are looking to change their banking relationships

Transaction banking has been a major driver of return on equity over the past five years, yet intense competition, changing corporate treasurer expectations and the impact of new regulations are impeding this growth. So, what can transaction banks do to move ahead of the marketplace? For the past three years, CGI has sponsored the Association of F...

Konstantin Rabin

Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik

Developing perfect PFM Apps

We are living in the age when everything tends to be in the cloud, mobile friendly and easily accessible. The way many people make money has changed drastically over the last few decades, more and more people are doing the jobs that simply didn’t exist some years ago. While the ways to generate revenues have been changing drastically, the methodol...

Bethan Cowper

Bethan Cowper Head of International Marketing at Compass Plus

In banks we trust: a UK perspective

Or do we? It’s hard to know how the public feels about things these days. A controversial statement in itself, considering social media and the amount of public avenues in which one can air their opinion, review or grievance. However, public opinion doesn’t always seem to balance out with public behaviour, as the highly anticipated “switch your ba...

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Identity and Access Management: Your Playbook for Winning with the C-Suite

The line between sport and business has been blurred for some time now. Sport often borrows analytical elements from corporations and manages their players like professionals, and on the other hand businesses are beginning to seek new tactical approaches already being championed by sport teams across the globe. With the Rugby World Cup 2015 in ful...

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