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John Cant

John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd

You’ve been quiet recently - are you dormant, deceased or just gone away?

My previous post https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/12517/beware-the-financial-crime-bite-of-the-back-book talked about the dangers lurking in a firm’s back book of existing customers and how to find and address them. A key part of this exercise is to understand the data that describes a customer, and hence understand whether they are a risk, a...

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Brexit made simple

Don't worry I'm not going to berate you to leave or stay. I'm more interested in how politicians have positioned the issues for us to discuss and the confusion they have caused. What I've tried to do is simplify the arguments. To me Brexit is about three things: Trade Immigration Political Union Of these I think that political union is the mor...

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John Cant

John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd

Beware the financial crime bite of the back book

When people start looking for solutions to financial crime, regulation and compliance there is a natural tendency to start with new customers, known as the ‘front book’. These new customers already expect to have to go through some onboarding processes, and are typically coming in at a manageable volume. They seem to offer a natural starting poi...

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PSR - Access to markets update

In January I wrote that the PSR was one of the things to watch in this year, and I’ve been surprised by the amount of pace they have made in such a short time through their excellent forum. There has been a round of workshops throughout January and I was privileged to chair a sub-group that looked at the access processes used by industry participan...

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10 Secrets to managing remote teams

The secret to successfully managing remote teams is in recognizing that it’s more a leadership role than a manager one. Too often I find that managers try to manage remote teams as if they were locally based and it doesn’t work. Remote teams need to have more attention and more support than locally based teams. You have to compensate for the lack...

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5 things that will definitely influence payments this year

Usually at the start of a New Year we try to make predictions of what lies ahead; comparisons of previous predictions show we get it wrong more often than not. Instead this year I’d like to highlight 5 things that will definitely influence payments this year. One thing has become clear is that although many of the predictions are aimed at banks t...

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Fee or Free? How low should remittance transfer fees be? The ultimate dilemma.

Determining the price for a product or a service is the penultimate question. The money-transfer industry is no different. At present, the remittance industry has more or less the following models for pricing: Regular Pricing – whatever it may be, is an average of the large players operating for that particular remittance corridor Free – send/rece...

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Bringing private wires into the 21st century

A recent blog post from Colt highlighted the way trading floors have changed over the last few decades – what was once a profession characterised by floors of people shouting orders across a seething mass of traders has transformed into electronic trading, algorithms and mathematics PhDs. As with any industry, things change, move on and develop. ...

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Intelligent Mortgage Sales : The Future Possible

Intelligent Mortgage Sales : The Future Possible This blog is in two parts – come back next week for part 2, Buying a home: the future possible. I’m going to start this blog with a quote from the Science Fiction author, William Gibson who is widely acknowledge to have coined the term Cyberspace back in 1982. “The future is already here – it's just...

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M and A acceleration and the CIO's role

Although many may claim to have done so, nobody could have predicted the severity of the current economic situation. The domino-effect continues and it is becoming more and more difficult to determine whether a business partner, competitor or service provider will be in existence next month or even next week. As a result many mergers and acquisit...

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