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Rashi Garg Product Analysis and Design Director at IHS Markit
Fair value is the pricing of foreign assets, post-closure of their native markets. Because markets are intercorrelated, breaking news from one part of the world can impact all markets globally. Fair value prices serve to capture fluctuations in the valuation of foreign equity and fixed income assets. Using these prices, portfolio and asset manager...
20 February 2019 /regulation
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They go by many names—business-managed applications (BMAs), user-developed controls, among others. Their labels are as bespoke as the tasks they do. But it’s what they share in common that makes them stand out. They are inevitable. Annoying. Seemingly unavoidable. And, perhaps most of all: they are spreading. For many banking institutions, these B...
18 February 2019
Corey Baggett CEO at Midigator
There is something happening in the eCommerce world that is baffling. Since the illogical actions and inconsistent mindsets are hard to explain, I’ll use an example from history to illustrate a modern conundrum. Candles to Gas Lights to Light Bulbs When homo erectus discovered how to produce fire, life was forever changed. For centuries, humans
14 February 2019 /payments
2018 was a year when certain jumbo-sized, data-heavy regulatory regimes finally smoothed out and settled down. Among the few that haven’t, the Basel Committee-driven Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) remains one of the most consequential and contentious—threatening the market-making businesses of global systemically-important banks (G-...
13 February 2019
The explosion of predictive analytics in financial services is undeniable. Layering on advancements in big data, billions of dollars are now dedicated to analytics spend annually. Dozens of startups dive in every year to develop the tools to tackle increasingly complex datasets at mind-blowing volumes, often deploying some variation or combination...
A 2018 report by Accenture, Back Office, it’s Time to Meet the Customers, found that 75% of operational leaders at banks now want to focus on customer experience more than on efficiency. The driver behind this view is undoubtedly higher customer expectations not just for excellent service, but for better personalization and engagement as well. Th...
11 February 2019 /devops
Bhavesh Vaghela SVP B2B Product and Innovation at Collinson
I hope you all had a great festive period with loved ones and eased into the first month of 2019. Over Christmas I watched Back to the Future I, II, III with my kids (lets face it Christmas is not Christmas without Back to the Future). It got me thinking what would the almanac for 2019 read. So here is my 2019 almanac predictions.. 1. Evolution ...
01 February 2019
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
Towards the end of last year, I attended a major insurtech conference. As ever, the week was packed with interesting debates and stories about how technology is impacting the insurance industry and how insurers are reacting to changing customer demands. One of the key takeaways concerned the manner in which customers might soon be communicating wit...
30 January 2019 /ai
Ian Stone CEO at Vuealta
Now, more than a decade on from the events of 2008, the finance industry is far from settled. It’s chaos at the speed of the digital era. In fact, the next five years are set to be just as dynamic as the previous ten – filled with challenges and disruption but equally, presenting opportunities for those that navigate the period well. The sector is...
28 January 2019 /ai
When it comes to bringing innovation to the world of banking and finance, what sort of apps might we see in years to come, and what areas are potentially ripe for development? What is driving the development of new types of apps, and how will gadgets and voice-activated assistants such as Facebook Portal, Alexa and Google Home play their part? B...
28 January 2019 /devops
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