Financial Risk Management

This network brings together professionals involved in the oversight and management of their company's financial risks and exposures as well as solution vendors, in order to discuss risk issues including interest rate risk, foreign exchange risk and commodity price risk, among others.

Tony Crivelli CEO at Fluenccy

The 3 simple steps to better FX rates for your business, forever.

In the world of foreign currency and cross border payments, SMEs are the worst off every time and frankly, I’m tired of it. In my 25+ years working closely with SMEs, their needs and knowledge gaps on the subject have stayed the same and unfortunately, so have the significant losses that come from poor or no foreign exchange strategy. Last ...

05 April 2022 /payments /markets

Vaibhav Grover Senior Director at Sutherland

Is your transformation risk-proof?

This article is co-authored by Vaibhav Dubey, Priyanka Mishra, Suresh Thevar & Vaibhav Grover Banking continues to be in the forefront of driving digital and process transformation. Many banks are on a transformation journey when it comes to core banking or back-office operations. These journeys are initially focused on cost reduction, making e...

21 January 2022 /regulation /retail

Alex Robinson Fraud Analytics at TSB

Workforce behaviour modelling: get proactive about insider fraud

Unsecured systems and processes can be remarkably easy to exploit. Just imagine a banking call centre, where employees process payments on behalf of customers every day. Before the world changed in early 2020, call centre supervisors could control and monitor employee access to customers’ information and money. When that work went remote, supervi...

01 December 2021 /security /crime

Alex Robinson Fraud Analytics at TSB

Is Business Email Compromise the King of Scams?

Globally, there’s been a great deal of media attention on payment scams affecting consumers, and rightly so. In late September of last year, the U.K. Financial Ombudsman Service received more than 5,000 complaints and requests for help with fraud and scams from U.K. consumers, an increase of 66% year-over-year. That same month, UK Finance reported...

17 November 2021 /payments /crime

Debbie Hayes Product Marketing Manager at GMO GlobalSign

The Financial Industry Needs to be Built on a Foundation of Trust

Anyone who is paying attention knows the financial industry is going through an unprecedented digital transformation which has been accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, cyberattacks, particularly ransomware attacks, grow in number by the day. The results of a study by the Ponemon Institute and Keeper Security in January sho...

20 October 2021 /regulation /crime

Steve Goddard FME at Featurespace

Fraud: a ‘national security threat’…why?

In March, a bakery owner in South West England received a curious SMS from her bike courier. The baker, whose canelés are famous in her city, supplies pastries to nearby cafes and other bakeries. She relies on couriers to get fresh pastries to those businesses early in the morning, and the bakery and the courier service have a years-old partnersh...

13 October 2021 /regulation /crime

Steve Dourdil Business Development at Kerv Collaborate

Compliance Recording Has Come Full Circle

It seems hard to believe that it was only 10 years ago that the FSA, as it was known back then, removed the mobile phone taping exemption from the call recording rules introduced in March 2009 with COBS 11.8. The initial legislation, designed primarily to tackle market abuse, required capital markets participants to capture and retain all relevant

30 September 2021 /regulation /crime

Richard Eaddy CEO at Hedgebook

No need to wait for the future of FX Management

We are surrounded by evidence of the changing world of banking and treasury. The level of online banking and all its supporting integrations with accounting and ERP systems delivers a remote working environment we never thought possible five years ago. The same is true in the world of FX management. The world has changed significantly and for ...

01 September 2021 /wholesale /markets

Nick Green Director at Purple Patch Broking Ltd

5 common misconceptions in credit data pricing

In this blog, we debunk the top five misconceptions that we hear from credit providers – the blockers that stop them from getting the best price for credit data. Did you know? Prices can vary by upto 500%. Even if you choose to stay with the same credit data provider, you can get more favourable terms by renegotiate mid-contract or at renewal. Plu...

15 June 2021 /payments /retail

Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire

Insurers as influencers: building a more sustainable, responsible, and equitable world

The seriousness with which insurers take Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years. As both investors and underwriters, insurers occupy a central role in the global economy that gives them significant influence over the business activities of others. With the increasing risks associated ...

04 June 2021 /regulation /sustainable