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Michael Nuciforo - Keatan - London | 31/10/2012 | 3297 views

Manage to Maximise

Money, and wanting more of it, is guaranteed to be dominating the mindshare of most Europeans at the moment. Austerity measures are in place and unemployment is embarrassingly high. Times are tough and the public has been left searching for new answers. Consumers have embraced discount and reward based businesses models and this trend is slowing... Tags: Online banking, Retail bankingGroup: Innovation in Financial Services

Craig Ramsey - ACI Worldwide - Watford | 31/10/2012 | 2879 views

Why travel to Sibos? Just look out of the window

The enormity of global trade is on display this year in Osaka, and it is more evident than ever that payments and trade finance are critical banking services supporting global economic growth. Each day participants navigate from hotels across the massive Kansai economic region of Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe-Nara to the INTEX conference center. On they way, w... Tags: Payments, Wholesale bankingGroup: Finextra@Sibos

Chris Principe - ACI Worldwide - Naples | 31/10/2012 | 2670 views

The downstream BPO business - a new type of model?

One of the big buzzes around Sibos this year has been the Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) and the new ICC rules being released this coming April. It seems everyone is holding their breath for the dropping of the rule book, as if the giant switch will automatically turn the BPO instrument on around the world. However, those of us on the inside all kno... Tags: Payments, Wholesale bankingGroup: Financial Supply Chain

Dean Procter - Transinteract - Sydney | 31/10/2012 | 2601 views

Thank you Andrew Haldane

While we never expected the BofE to be thanking the #occupy movement Andrew just drop me a line if you would like some sensible legislation supported. Initial budget was about $1000, 2 people. Protests in 2400+ towns & cities. Startlingly effective, don't you think? There's definitely something to be said for social media eh? ;) BTW before any... Tags: Risk & regulation, Retail bankingGroup: Whatever...

Mike Rhodes - SAS - LONDON | 31/10/2012 | 1947 views

Real-time Analytics of Social Media, Comms, Markets and More

An educational posting from me today on one of the most understated weapons ever unleashed in the counter-fraud world – Big Data Analytics. People often don’t realise that analysing vast chunks of data (commonly in the region of terabytes) can be done these days in real-time, or at the very least near real-time. It’s understandabl... Tags: Security, Risk & regulation