1246 Results from 2014
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In nearly every metropolitan area, banks are the largest buildings in the city. The largest industry in nearly every country is banking. Banks know more about consumers than any individual brand. We think Facebook and Google know a lot about who we are, yet while they do, the banking industry has far more impactful information about their accounth...
17 December 2014 Online Banking
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Many Americans, says a recent survey by Gallup, worry about a data breach connected to the use of their credit cards. Interestingly, many people use a credit card for everything under the sun: even just a soda and bag of chips from the convenience mart. The more you use a credit card, the more likely it will be compromised by cyber thieves. The ...
17 December 2014 /security
Christmas is almost upon us – a time for festive frivolity, laughter and fun. Or is it? New research from the Debt Advisory Centre (DAC), shows that 19% of people cannot afford the cost of Christmas and as such won’t be celebrating. A third of people also admitted that they even end up dreading Christmas. This feeling is most prevalent among 25 to ...
17 December 2014 /retail
The incidence of data breaches is mounting but organisations are increasingly struggling to identify what’s driving these attacks. Consulting firm PWC recently published research that provides food for thought on this subject. According to their data, the total number of security incidents globally has climbed to 42.8 million this year, an increas...
17 December 2014 /security /regulation
Jenni Palocsik Solutions Marketing Director at Verint Systems
Why are so many banks talking about and trailing alternative approaches to traditional high-street banking? Although economics plays a role, the primary driver appears to be customers and their increasing expectations of a digitally enabled branch. Ernst & Young recently released the key findings of its third annual Global Consumer Banking Sur...
In an obscure corner of the Government website is a strange little document. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/386953/141211_basic_accounts_agreement_text.pdf It has no links back to any other part of the Government site. It is on plain paper and has no signatories or ownership, yet refers to “we”. Yet ther...
17 December 2014 /payments
Many of the business banking customers have expressed dissatisfaction with the way banks provide transparency to them in their transaction banking. Simple information such as the status of their payments, remittances, collections , failed transactions, receivables , loan and tax payments, file uploads etc are not sent back to them in time resulti...
16 December 2014
The funding cycle for many private equity firms is set to kick off again in 2015, with all its attendant chaos, tension and high stakes. Firms can expect their investor relations and marketing teams to be tied up for the following 18 to 24 months as this merry-go-round of meetings, presentations, conference calls and pitches swings into action. Wi...
A friend of mine once quipped "Welcome to the Hotel Corporate Actions. You can check out any time you like, but you can’t never leave". It was right on the money. The word "dedicated" doesn’t even come close to describing the endless pursuit of automation by a relatively small group of Asset Servicing professionals. We’ve m...
13 December 2014 Standards Forum
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
The treasury management systems (TMS) business is in a constant state of flux – what is top priority today may be outdated tomorrow. Although this change can be very difficult to predict I took the risk of anticipating the most relevant trends I see for 2015 and in the incoming years (*). Trend 1: One-Stop-Shop At a global level, treasurers are ...
13 December 2014 /payments Treasury Management
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