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Demand for knowledge transfer in outsourcing?

In an effort to find out what our clients and potential clients were thinking...we asked them. Although the tectonic plates in the outsourcing world seem to shift daily, changing the landscape dramati...

17 Oct 2008
Trends in Financial Services
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Regulation is sometimes good

So the European Commission is proposing to repeal Regulation 2560/2001, considered as the inception of SEPA, and replace it with a new Regulation with extended scope to cover SEPA Direct Debits. That ...

17 Oct 2008
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Rise of the No.2; Did they try harder?

Remember the legendary tag line from Avis - 'We try harder'. This gave words to the might of the No.2. Is the credit crunch reversing the league tables in global banking? Consider this - - Till about ...

17 Oct 2008
Transaction Banking
John Dring

Digital Signatures....

Well not PKI, but I have always had a grudge about those digital tablet or handheld POS things you are sometimes asked to sign on top of. With all the talk about Chip + PIN, it reminded me... I m...

17 Oct 2008
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My Credit Reference Record Should be....Mine?

One of the items in my spam folder tonight is an email from Experian offering me a free trial for access to 'Credit Expert', so that I can view my credit reference. Obviously, the intention is for me...

17 Oct 2008
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EMXCo An STP Story

As news from the markets veer from bad to worse and each day brings more doom and gloom its worth noting one of the big success story's of the last few years. EMXCo were set up in the 20th century to ...

17 Oct 2008
SEPA and European Payments
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SEPA Credit Transfers; a over hype phoney project

Despite what hype there has been in the media and all the pundits jumping up and down shouting Eureka the SEPA project to date is just a damp squib. SIBOS this year had many vendors ringing their hand...

17 Oct 2008
MiFID
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CHIP and PIN or No PIN Will Lead to Less Trust in Banks

I have a few issues with CHIP and PIN or No PIN. 1. It is a security failure of the system which renders the PIN unusable, and turns it into a weakness rather than a strength. 2. The system now relies...

17 Oct 2008
Whatever...
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Mobile banking technology challenge: HTML won

The use of mobile banking is expected to be very high in the US and in Europe as well. The handsets themselves became very clever. There is no ”smartphone” category anymore, beacuse even the medium-le...

16 Oct 2008
Finance 2.0
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Bank shareholders booking preference seats in the lifeboat

It's understandable that shareholders of banks are upset with the terms of the government lifeboat. The payment of dividends to shareholders is a prime reason for investment and in many cases the divi...

16 Oct 2008
EBAday
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UK vs Facebook

It seems that British employers don’t look too kindly on social networking in the office. Apparently 35% of companies here have official restrictions in place on accessing sites like MySpace and Faceb...

16 Oct 2008
Women in Technology
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Why is ISO20022 important?

I keep hearing about ISO20022 and notice that umpteen standards committees are in full swing together with SWIFT who are somewhere in the middle but what are they trying to achieve, for whom and for w...

16 Oct 2008
Data Management 101

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