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iPhone 5S and NFC

NFC World ran an article on 5S "likely" to have NFC, citing investment bank Jefferies who said that "based on our checks, likely updates include a new super HD camera/screen, a better ...

11 Dec 2012
Innovation in Financial Services
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How Automotive Telematics Reduces Car Insurance Fraud

How Automotive Telematics Reduces Insurance Fraud? We all know that are car insurance is going up because of whiplash cases, bad driving by a certain age group and EU law but how can we push back and ...

11 Dec 2012
Innovation in Financial Services
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Time for review: mortgage sales practices

The FSA’s mortgage market review guidelines pose a number of issues for retail banks in the UK, and are set to have significant impact on the way mortgages are bought and sold here. Although new regul...

11 Dec 2012
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Mobility, where are you headed?

Mobility, as a concept, has captured the collective imagination of the tech savvy populace. CEOs and CTOs wax eloquent on their grandiose plans in this domain. A lot has been written about NFC device...

10 Dec 2012
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Debate on shorter settlement cycles

I recently had the pleasure of being joined by a panel of clearing and settlement experts to discuss the impending move to a T+2 settlement cycle in Europe, as proposed in the European Commission’...

07 Dec 2012
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Increasing Efficiency in Mortgage Sales

Twenty odd years ago when I started working in the mortgage industry, space for paper files was nearly as important as disk space to store mortgage applications. The industry has of course moved on si...

07 Dec 2012
Innovation in Financial Services
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Decision Automation: A Simple Puzzle That Can Teach Us A Lot

In this article, we want to illustrate the importance of augmenting automated decisioning and business intelligence systems with human intelligence. Here’s a simple logic puzzle for starters. Please l...

07 Dec 2012
Financial Risk Management
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How to participate in a CCP

Financial institutions can participate in a central counterparty (CCP) in two ways — either as a direct or an indirect clearing member. To become a direct CCP clearing member, firms need to meet the c...

06 Dec 2012
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Digital banking solutions: once a convenience, now essential

Digital solutions have changed the way we work and live our everyday lives. For example, 10 years ago, it would have been unimaginable to be able to access all of your professional documents from anyw...

06 Dec 2012
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Just how private is that conversation?

I’m not sure how practical it is for Lord McAlpine to sue 10,000 Twitter users, but it does serve as a very clear reminder that comments made over a public forum do have repercussions. Something many ...

06 Dec 2012
Social Banks
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Is it really that Simple?

Banksimple, a website whose name says it all. Now renamed Simple.com. All part of the value proposition of making banking simple, I guess. For the benefit of those who are not yet familiar with Simpl...

06 Dec 2012
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Understanding Health Care EFT Standards

On March 23, 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was signed into law. Section 1104 of the PPACA requires the adoption of operating rules for health care electronic funds tran...

05 Dec 2012
Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

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