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Despite some recent reports about the death of bank branches, it’s clear that physical branches are still valued by consumers up and down the country. However, as customers demand more from their in-b...
Banks in the EU/EEA will be obliged – as from January 2018 – to quote all-in prices to their customers for: payments going to or coming from outside the EU/EEA, in any currency; and payments with bot...
Banks across the globe are investing big dollars into Intelligent Bots. HSBC has recently announced a low-cost online investment service that uses algorithms to match customers to an investment portfo...
As the MiFID II implementation date draws closer, implications for US firms continue to emerge. One area raising questions in the listed derivatives space is around position reporting and commodity po...
Getting re-papered under the terms of MiFID II will test the relationships between dealer and asset manager. All the terms of business, policies and procedures that banks and broker dealers have with ...
Introduction AnaCredit (The Analytical Credit and Credit Risk Dataset), is a project from the European Central Bank (ECB) to create a shared database containing information on bank loans to compan
When engaging into a customer-supplier relationship, you are usually faced with two types of associations. The most usual is what is called transactional relationship. In a transactional relationshi
At the occasion of the 2017 Standards Forum to be held at Sibos in Toronto, Canada from 16 to 19 October, I interviewed a number of SWIFT standards experts about the content of this year's programme....
Even before it was discovered that the attack on the offices of Paris satire magazine Charlie Hebdo was partly financed by online payment fraud, the writing was on the wall. Organized crime and inter...
As consumer technologies rapidly evolve, some are speculating that augmented reality could be the next big thing to transform the trader’s work space. Financial services firms are already looking at b...
This is the first of my series of blogs on how businesses can use the power of Blockchain technology to un-‘block’ the inefficiencies in their current models and practices. Almost every paper or blog ...
European leaders have long identified that the future of the financial services lies in the co-existence of the conventional banks with emerging fintech. However, to reach to that stage, security of t...