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Duncan Ash

Director of FS Market Development EMEA

Qliktech

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31 Jan 2011

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The real time risk challenge

In a recent report from Lepus, senior representatives from global investment banks indicated that current approaches to risk management are inadequate. As it stands, global investment banks are at different stages in the move to real time risk management. However, all agreed that the ability to aggregate global data and take snapshots of their ri...

13 September 2011 /regulation

Filling the IT skills gap in financial services

As hundreds of thousands of young adults reflect on their A-level results and look ahead to the future, they might do worse than to consider a career in IT. Demand for IT staff jumped 44% in July 2011 compared to the same time last year, according to recruitment group Reed’s Annual Job Index. And yet the number of students taking IT courses has, ...

26 August 2011

6 out of 10 firms are social media novices. Where to start?

I don’t want Facebook controlling my finances. Nor do I want to ‘poke’ my bank or become a ‘fan’ of my chosen institution. What I do want is the choice of how I bank and for my bank to be listening to what I want. And I don’t think I’m alone. It’s not that I have an aversion to social media; in fact it’s the opposite. I just think certain uses hav...

01 August 2011

What banks can learn from the high street

The Independent Commission on Banking's (ICB) plans to ring fence the UK retail operations of universal banks to protect business lending and depositors assets have been highly publicised in recent weeks. However, one problem with this proposal is that, with the notable exception of HSBC, no UK universal bank has enough retail deposits to cover re...

30 June 2011 /retail

Standing up to big data

Big data is big news. George Osborne's announcement of the London ‘smart cities' project and the recent McKinsey report have thrust big data into the limelight. While certain sectors have only just begun to address the issue, the financial services industry has been analysing massive datasets for years. However, while financial institutions have ar...

17 June 2011 /regulation

The PPI warning sign was on the door a long time ago

The publication last week of the latest Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) data on complaints sparked the usual ruckus, and understandably so. New cases for the FOS soared by 26 per cent in the year to March 31 2011 and 51 per cent of new cases were solely about Payment Protection Insurance (PPI). While these figures alone provide food for thought,...

08 June 2011 /retail

Regulate the process, supervise the risk

The EBA’s announcement on stress testing methodology and scenarios left banks with more questions than answers, but following Andrea Enria’s announcement earlier this month, we now have a far clearer picture of what the next round of stress tests will look like. The tests will involve 90 banks (a longer and more varied list than last time) and the...

19 April 2011 /regulation

Latest stress test announcement: more questions than answers

“The European Union's stress tests on banks this year may be tougher and better organised than last year's, but still fall far short of settling the biggest worries over their health.” This was the conclusion of one of the journalists I spoke to on Friday, following the EBA’s announcement on the scenarios and methodology for the 2011 round of EU-w...

24 March 2011 /regulation /retail

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