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Neil Crammond

Neil Crammond risk education & real time market abuse at DIVENTO FINANCIALS

Regulation arbitrage equation

2015 has established a wide rift in our regulation market where without doubt certain countries & exchanges differ from others . These divisions of regulation does question whether ALL competition is good fair & orderly . New exchanges open with mass hype and promises of low costs , liquidity and hopes of cementing an arbitrage opportunit...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Don't Rely on the Password Reset

Think about your keychain. It probably holds the necessities: car keys, home keys, work keys, miscellaneous keychains you bought on your previous vacations. Now, imagine you have a keychain full of these keys that all look the same, but each only opens a specific door. Sounds kind of like your list of passwords, right? But what happens when you ha...

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Tejasvi Addagada

Tejasvi Addagada Enterprise Data Head at Fortune 500 financial service provider

Know your Processes to Guide your Data Governance to Success

What aspects provide a holistic view of data? The information environment comprises Data, Processes, People, organizations, and technology associated with it. A good operating model covers all these aspects to achieve successful maturity levels. The first question you would want to ask - "Are the processes, data, people, organizations, and tec...

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Ralf Ohlhausen

Ralf Ohlhausen Executive Advisor at Pay Practice

Instant Payments: A Critical Assessment

Instant Payments SEPA has long dominated the financial industry, but Europe’s next major payment project is just around the corner: instant payments. Leading the field here are the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Retail Payments Board (ERPB), who are driving the development of a real-time payment system. Payments within Europe will, i...

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Balance the Risk and Cost of Testing in Banking

A lot of things about banking software hinge on how and when it might fail and what impact that will create. This drives all banks to invest heavily in testing projects. Traditionally, banks have been involved in testing software modules from end-to-end and in totality, which calls for large resources. Even then, testing programs are not foolproof,...

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Horseshoes, Hand Grenades and Innovation: How Access to the Right Data Can Boost Business Growth

Recent research which looked into instinct versus insight for CFOs, revealed that access to better data allows the Office of Finance to make better decisions faster. This means financial executives can be more confident when allocating resources to grow the business in areas such as customer service, sales, and marketing. In addition, it means t...

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My fridge can disrupt your bank

The Internet of Everything, an emerging multi trillion dollar trend that embues a world where everything is connected to everything else and where inert ‘Dumb’ materials and products are embedded with technologies and sensors that make them ‘Smart’ isn’t ordinarily a trend that is associated with the Financial Services industry. Today the most con...

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Can Continual Certification Keep Everyone Safe?

One of the most surprising facts I have encountered in our little niche market of financial services onboarding and certification, is just how much attitudes vary towards it. Certification is the "driving test" that counterparties are required to perform to demonstrate compliance with a trading or market data interface. In a world of con...

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What is NextGenPOS?

We used to call it “mobile POS” because it was essentially a MOBILE Point of Sale solution. But these days mobile POS often takes the form of a tablet fixed on top of a counter - which isn’t very mobile at all but still leverages the same basic technology. What we are witnessing is another example of mobile devices acting as a swiss knife, taking ...

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The Confusion in Payments

I usually tell new employees at Handpoint that it takes about six months to understand payments and that they shouldn't be overwhelmed by all the acronyms and abbreviations. That is a lie actually, as it takes forever to understand payments. In fact, I have not yet met a person who fully understands payments (down to the the nitty gritty details) ...

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