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In this era of virtualisation, cloud computing and smart mobile devices, the IT infrastructure landscape looks significantly different to a decade or even five years ago. Yet in many organisations, se...
Back from Sibos? Time to dive into the green books and get busy with the remediation work for the annual SWIFT Standards Release. It comes around every year as sure as death and taxes. How many Sta...
Recently, I wrote a piece highlighting some of the startling data released on the true costs of fraud published in a report by Lexis Nexis. This report examined the costs of fraud across a number of d...
Over recent weeks I seem to have spent a lot of time in the innovation space, with plenty of talk about being innovative, creative and forward thinking. However, given the very different angles that e...
The market size and app richness in the new payments area begs the question, where is this all going? And what should the perfect payment solution of the future look like? In this final part of the bl...
One of the great joys of my role is to spend quality time with the executive teams from the world’s top banks. Hearing directly from them what is propelling them out of bed in the morning and what is ...
Personal finance management tools enable an individual to track various expenses and better manage his or her money. Some of the features offered by such tools are single view of various accounts like...
Banks are leveraging the benefits of technology with implementation of various core banking systems. Banks as well as their customers are benefited in various ways with implementation of core banking ...
Dodging the rains, I have just returned home after a run. I prefer to cycle but a run was a necessary and efficient way of re-balancing the calorific excesses of the previous day. As one of the kids h...
The credit risk associated over a loan lifecycle can be best arrested at the time of originating the loan itself. So, Invariably there is a need to have a more robust process and an intelligent syste...
On October 4, 1994 I walked into the NYC offices of Waters Information Services to start work as a reporter on Inside Market Data (and two other publications - which are not really around in the same ...
It’s an interesting time to be a technology provider in financial services. For many years there has been talk that banks need to change the way they run their back office in order to cut costs. A com...