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April was a month of announcements for banknotes, both in the UK and the US. After a long period of deliberation and public consultation the Bank of England announced that the new polymer twenty poun...
Given the ongoing uncertainties in the global economic environment, such as the slide in oil prices, credit expansion in the US and weakness in the Eurozone, some economists are predicting another mar...
I’m sure most people will agree that data as an asset is not a new idea. However, I can make a strong argument that regulation as an asset is. This is quite a simple idea: Data is the new currency. R...
Machine Learning is getting a lot of buzz. I hear questions from our clients as we have successfully implemented it in our trading surveillance tool. We use machine learning to score the likelihood th...
Heads up guys. PSD2 is coming to a payment screen near you. And for those who don't know about it, here’s a quick trailer. So, just what is it? In essence it's an overhaul of PSD1 (the Payment Servic...
It is no more a tool restrained to the likes of the Petersens of CSI or the Hunts of Mission Impossible – facial recognition as a safe “login” is the new password today. And no, it isn’t restricted to...
Contextualising information, influenced by general purpose social and commerce applicaitions, bots and AI-powered chats. Having a major influence on how financial information will be presented as bank...
Under Starter’s Orders: Market Abuse Regulation We are almost under starter’s orders for compliance with the new market abuse regulation (MAR), which comes into force in Europe on July 3rd. Enhancemen...
In my first blog, I explored how the data collection and sharing requirements of existing and new regulations such as KYC, AML and BCBS 239 are in direct conflict with data privacy rules that differ f...
Recent events in the international payments world have highlighted yet again the confusion over SWIFT’s responsibilities in the payments chain. SWIFT was created to send payments instructions from a s...
With adoption of the Payment Services Directive 2015/2366/EU (“PSD2”) and the transposition period underway, start-ups and large companies alike are looking for opportunities to break into the payment...
Research shows that capital markets firms are planning to move away from building and towards buying data management platforms at a rate four times higher than the average for other technologies[1]. ...