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The timing could not have been better. FATF just published – February 2016, a report that all Compliance Officers of this industry must read, entitled Guidance for a Risk-Based Approach for Money or V...
Today's connected customer expects more of their bank. Whether they are consumers or businesses, they want an Apple- or Amazon-like experience. This represents both an opportunity and a challenge of e...
I think it is very important that every person in the International Money Transfer & Payments (IMT&Ps) industry reads the GAO Report published on February 16th, 2016, entitled INTERNATIONAL RE...
Erik Hunsader, the founder of Nanex, has been a frequent watcher of the markets. His twitter feed often has screenshots of suspected spoofing and market manipulation. Reuters declares him as “an outsp...
Your account passwords should be as unique as your fingerprint—to make them less hackable by crooks using password-guessing software that can run through millions of possible combinations in just minu...
The secret to successfully managing remote teams is in recognizing that it’s more a leadership role than a manager one. Too often I find that managers try to manage remote teams as if they were locall...
Long considered a protected space dominated by a few, the financial services industry is currently riding a giant wave of entrepreneurial disruption, disintermediation, and digital innovation. Recent ...
It would be understandable if many firms decided to crack open the champagne in celebration of the decision to delay the implementation date of MiFID II by 12 months. MiFID II is an enormous regulatio...
Ever consider the possibility that a person gets a job as a bank teller…for the sole purpose of stealing a patron’s identity? Do you realize how easy this would be? No techy hacking skills required. ...
I drafted this blog post four years ago after reading this article in Economic Times. Not wanting to sound alarmist, I decided to can it. I revisited the post many times since then and I stuck to my...
The last decade has been a tumultuous one for financial services, not least in the field of technology. The meteoric rise of mobile devices, social media and online banking has changed the way consume...
The old dilemma again. Should banks buy software or build their own? I heard that even Deep Thought had a hard time answering this question. Being a person who is involved in both a house building pr...