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Innovation in Financial Services

A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.

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New Year gifts to foreign tax authorities

We should all be saying Happy New Year! Well, actually we have already, especially to tax authorities around the world. Many of them have just received a New Year's present of cash from the financial services industry, funded by investors. Why? Well, as cross border investment steadily increases at over 16% a year, each time there's a dividend p...

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Convergence? what convergence?

Is it me or does there seem to be a lack of convergence on the subject of security in internet banking these days? From a user perspective I have accounts with ING, Nationwide and Barclays to name but three. I also work with many banks in their back offices trying to make operations both more secure and more efficient (tough job to do both at on...

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Indecent Exposure - keep your SOX on in bed!

I see that financiers have noticed that there's been a 12.4% increase in de-listings of foreign companies on US exchanges. The explanation appears to be either "a pent up demand to leave the US" or "the increasing unattractiveness of the US capital markets". Not only are these symptoms not causes, I'm not sure they're really ...

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Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia

Innovation: Killing bad puppies and old dogs

At last week’s Forum for Innovation in Financial Services, organised by Finextra, we had some excellent presentations from James Gardner at Lloyds TSB and Pol Navarro of Banco Sabadell giving insight into how these particular banks are approaching the challenge of managing a formal innovation programme. The subsequent panel discussion also involve...

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