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Running your front-to-back trading systems in the cloud is now a reality!

As someone who has implemented and managed a complex trading application, I was inspired write about my experiences of adopting AWS in a front-to-back trading system environment, and how this could be a potential game changer for those facing similar challenges. Back in December 2017 Murex announced its Mx.3 platform was available on AWS. This was...

Capital Markets Technology

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Travelling Abroad? You Need An International Debit Card

Do you travel often? Are you looking to make purchases in other countries? Tired of paying high fees while abroad? If you said yes to any of the above, then an international debit card is a must. Most people have a debit card, but not everyone understands the difference between a domestic and international debit card. While traditional debit card...

Andrew Beatty

Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS

Banking Modernization: Is It A Communication Breakdown?

The famous line "What we've got here is failure to communicate" from Cool Hand Luke (1967) serves as a warning shot in the current blitzkrieg of Digital Transformation for banks. As financial institutions are charging toward ever-increased market share growth and maximized operational efficiency, through lofty and worthy aspirations of di...

Digital Banking Trends

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How low-code drives digital transformation in Client Lifecycle Management and KYC

We live in an age of digital transformation in client lifecycle management (CLM) and Know Your Customer (KYC). Banks are regulated by a myriad of ever-changing global regulations that differ across jurisdictions. Keeping pace with these changing regulations, embracing digital transformation, and providing the customer with an optimal experience ca...

Anthony Walton

Anthony Walton CEO at Iliad Solutions

APIs: Realising benefits beyond the hype

I recently attended the QAFF event in London, and it was clear to see the increasing relevance that APIs play as part of the global march towards improved access. 2018 was dominated by headlines proclaiming the Open Banking revolution that’s just around the corner. However, although the commercial and consumer benefits it promises are taking a whi...

Open Banking

Bob Lyddon

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

Crummy CReM code Part VI as customers’ baseline rights are overridden

This is the sixth blog out of eight in our series on the Contingent Reimbursement Model code (“CReM”) that purports to offer customers strong protection against certain types of Authorised Push Payment Fraud, or “APPF”. In it we discuss how customers’ baseline rights in law are overlooked. The CReM fails to adequately qualify what happens in an AP...

/payments Transaction Banking

Bob Lyddon

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

Crummy CReM code Part V few customers covered, voluntary for firms, and dependent upon CoP

This is the fifth blog out of eight in our series on the Contingent Reimbursement Model code (“CReM”) that purports to offer customers strong protection against certain types of Authorised Push Payment Fraud, or “APPF”. Here we focus on who qualifies for cover, who is offering cover, and the vague contingency of cover on the as-yet non-existent Con...

/payments Transaction Banking

Jean-Paul Carbonnier

Jean-Paul Carbonnier Director at CarboKinetic

Market Data, Reference Data and Blockchain

Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology (DLT), has the potential to disrupt a wide range of business models across the financial services industry. However, the potential application of blockchain to the worlds of market data and reference data has not received that much attention. It’s difficult to predict the extent to which this emerging t...

Data Management 101

Barley Laing

Barley Laing UK Managing Director at Melissa

Why delivering personalised communications is a must in financial services

Study after study highlights personalisation is what consumers increasingly expect from the brands they engage with. For example, research from Epsilon reveals that 80 per cent of consumers are more likely to do business with a company that offers personalised experiences. With online financial institutions that rises to 89 per cent, and for those...

/retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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Cashless society and legacy technology; a perfect storm.

In response to the recently published article by The Guardian , “UK cash system ‘on the verge of collapse’, report finds” - a writeup of an independent report called the Access to Cash Review - it is worth emphasising we may be heading toward something far worse when it comes to making payments. At our current trajectory, we may be heading toward...

/payments Banking Architecture

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