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We arrived at the Standards Forum stand bright and early for a team briefing. Very impressive always. This year the corrugated cardboard makes way for recycled wooden crates. Looks a bit like a loft...
Today, we start off with Professor Poppe again at 9am. Today Tom is talking about reference data. I’m particularly interested to hear about the role of standards in big data, clearly one of this year...
One of the best sessions at Sibos today came from McKinsey, who for the third year in a row fielded Philip Bruno and Marc Niederkorn to forecast what’s likely to happen to payments over the next few y...
SEC agrees asset management supervisory cooperation agreements with EU and EEA member-state regulators The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it had signed memoranda of und...
The average Brit keeps the same bank account for 17 years, five and a half years more than the average marriage lasts, according to The Payments Council. From today (16 September 2013) however, regula...
'Pause-and-resume’ call recording is a longstanding solution used by many customer-service operations to prevent the storage of customer-card data within call archives systems. The motivators for this...
With mobile and electronic communication fast exceeding the fixed line phone, the way we connect with each other is changing. Regulators have recognised this to be true within financial markets as wel...
For a standard that claims to be the one standard to bind them all, a method for developing standards, and a framework to allow multiple message syntaxes to co-exist, one might think that we could at ...
The G20 finance ministers and central bank governors met in Moscow on 19-20 July 2013 and issued a communiqué following the meeting noting, among other things, the continued progress in implementing ...
Banking is an inherently complex industry. But for long the sector has been able to leverage technology to manage business complexity and to drive growth, profitability, customer experience and innova...
So, here we are again. Another Sibos. Another Standards Forum. The waiting is over and it’s time to get down to business. On Monday we kick off at 9:30am with “Professor” Tom Poppe who will be wor...
I was last in Dubai 13 years ago, presenting at the GITEX IT show on Internet Security. Working with a local partner which specialised in Lotus Notes implementations and was comprised mostly of (local...