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Yesterday's post looked at the big risks in the CCP landscape from simultaneous requirements for mandatory margin, novated contract terms, complex portfolio and collateral valuations, reference data r...
The title of this post is the title of a debate being hosted Post-Trade Forum next month: Post Trade operational risk: Are Clearing Houses increasing risks? Gary Wright of B.I.S.S. Research has kindly...
Earlier this week, FSA exec, Martin Wheatley, hit the business pages after suggesting that free banking no longer works in today’s climate. He said “the reality is that if you are providing services ...
There has long been a debate as to whether it is better to run one fully-integrated system or several pieces of 'best-of-breed' software in many areas of application software, and payments is no excep...
If you can’t run with the big dogs, stay on the porch. It’s one of those idioms that exalt the conspicuously massive, enticing us to celebrate the all-or-nothing spirit of those who dominate. But big ...
As the value of the day to day decisions grow, the importance of Decision Management Solution deployment becomes undoubted. Organizations adopting Decision Management improve business results by suppo...
The popularity of shared resource pools in banking over the last decade has been astonishing. Some banks have resource pools for every major job function. Creating groups of the same skillset was su...
It more or less started with telephones. On the day that a customer happened to call the bank to inquire or conduct a transaction, remote banking was on its way. Well, sort of on its way. Telephones a...
Technology is evolving at an incredible rate, which means that the strategies you employed 2 or 3 years ago are probably no longer on target. Take personal audio for example: If a group of music execu...
Wow – Payments is a hot topic right now isn’t it? With a few brilliant ideas and a whole host of, well, dimmer ones crowding into the market, our previously introverted corner of the financial service...
After 5 weeks of extenuating negotiations, with dramatic scenes entries and bumpy price rides on the stock market, the negotiations between Temenos and Misys seem to have come to an end, as it was ann...
Dodd-Frank section 1073 generated much comment at both the International Payments Framework Association (IPFA) General Meeting and the NACHA Global Payments Forum (GPF) conferences in Munich this wee...