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Banks’ risk management capabilities are under the spotlight following the events of the past two years. The issue of liquidity used to sit firmly with the treasury department, but the advent of RTGS ...
Sometimes I see some really interesting research in the press. But other times I just see something that’s a little harder to believe, which is interesting for all the wrong reasons! One of those is a...
Recent events may have forever changed the global economic system. That isn't to say capitalism is dead, no its alive and will become well, eventually. It will just be a different style of capitalism....
In August, the Congressional Oversight Panel (the COP) released its report, “The Continued Risk of Troubled Assets.” The report covers, among other things, a summary of methods that have been and are ...
KPMG's report - insights to global payments titled "The beating heart of Banking" indicates reversal of priorities on payments agenda, which points to opportunities and threats faced by the ...
Looking back on last week's Sibos, the one thing that really strikes me is how important pre-arranged meetings were. Numbers might have been down, but the people that were able to come along were det
It’s clear that corporations expect more than ever before from their banking service providers. They are demanding the same level of insight for payments as they receive for other areas of their busin...
There have been some pretty disappointing statistics in the press recently when it comes to equality and the gender pay gap – especially in the finance sector. A report by the Equality and Human Right...
I managed to catch some of the first day on Thursday of the "Pricing Model Validation: Mitigating Model Risk" conference. I thought it would be worthwhile going along since firstly the past...
When thinking about doing things differently in the transaction and identity space its hard to go past the health care industry. There are an awful lot of health care transactions and with the right s...
‘Familiarity breeds contempt’ is a line from Hollywood Beyond’s hit single, ‘What’s the colour of money?’. The same phrase could arguably be used to describe bankers’ relationship with money in the ru...
I stumbled acrosss an article in the Telegraph this morning, "50 things that are being killed off by the internet". Most of the things that are getting killed off seem to be for the better ...