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I have just been running a series of training courses in Johannesburg on various banking subjects and something that one of the course participants said really struck a chord in me and in the group th...
Front Offices, Product Management, Trade Initiation, Business Intelligence, Risk and Quality Management are some of the functions that financial institutions have rarely outsourced. They are core to ...
I’m interrupting my series of 2009 mega-trends and 2010 projections to discuss the current situation in cybercrime. What a crazy week. First Google says it is prepared to pull its business out of Chi...
“Subramaniam went to great trouble to hide his activity. He seems to have thought that carrying data around on memory sticks and using internet cafes would somehow protect him from scrutiny. He was wr...
I'm going out on a bit of a limb here, but here goes. I was walking past the RBS building on Bishopsgate after leaving the Deutsche Bank press event. (they plan on becoming the number one payments cle...
Everywhere you go there is a privacy advocate screaming to protect your privacy. Privacy advocates, bless them, are a dying breed. They fight for whatever privacy rights there are left and do their be...
With half of the Internet users in the UK now banking online (UK Payments Administration, Jan 2010), it’s hardly surprising that phishing is on the rise. As new customers migrate to more convenient b...
Those of you Twitters out there may be experiencing a slow Twitter day. No, it is not due to old Teddy Kennedy turning in his grave (I'll spare the Finextra Community my views on that one). But it see...
It was interesting to watch Andrew Bowley’s video interview on Finextra regarding the launch of Nomura’s dark pool - NX. It helped crystallise the love/hate relationship between dark pools and the T...
I recently met with a former colleague of mine who recounted a story that as first seems extreme, but which I have subsequently established to be a common problem: My contact was a risk manager in a l...
This post is a first in a series I will be exchanging with Allison Miller, one of my esteemed colleagues in Paypal's Risk organization, in her reinstated blog. “Man may be defined as the animal that...
On the 1st of January 2010, many German bank customers found that their banking smart cards had stopped working. Details of why are still unclear, but indications are that the cards believed that the ...