1137 Results from 2015
Rich Wagner CEO at APS
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...
28 October 2015 /payments /retail
Retired Member
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...
28 October 2015
Kirsty Berry Head of Product Marketing & Market Analytics at Compass Plus
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...
28 October 2015 /retail
Benjamin Thorpe Director at Glory
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 ...
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
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
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 ...
27 October 2015 /retail
Penny Hembrow Global Lead, Financial Services at CGI
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...
27 October 2015
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
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 Head of International Marketing at Compass Plus
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...
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...
26 October 2015 /security /regulation
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