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Will Liberty Reserve prompt the regulation of Bitcoin?

The dramatic closure of Liberty Reserve digital money service by US authorities on the grounds that it is “the financial hub of the cyber crime world” is going to drive increased regulatory interest in digital currencies and alternative payment networks. According to papers from the US Department of Justice, Liberty Reserve had around a million cus...

/payments /regulation Innovation in Financial Services

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Speech analytics - getting past the hype

It seems like speech analytics has been around forever. Yet mainstream enterprise adoption has remained elusive. This is not for lack of desire. In a survey carried out by Forrester in 2011, the two top challenges to improving customer service were creation of customer insight and having a single view of customer information and data. No doubt this...

/regulation /retail

Marc Murphy

Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo

Beneficial Ownership: A KYC opportunity or data nightmare?

Beneficial ownership is gaining significant exposure at the moment, with the UK intending to use its presidency of the G8 Leaders’ Summit next month to promote the improvement of international co-operation on tax evasion and push for greater transparency and accountability. As David Cameron, Prime Minister of Britain, states, “… dealing with tax e...

/regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation

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Levelling the trading playing field

According to The Economist algorithmic trading and high-frequency trading (HFT), virtually unknown until about six years ago, now account for almost 70% of the flow of orders on the main exchanges. Since the introduction of electronic trading there has always been more advanced solutions breaking through to help traders gain a competitive advanta...

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T2S

Like the single European currency and the Channel Tunnel, another ‘euro fantasy’ is now reality. T2S (TARGET2-Securities) is ambitious: a new, bespoke technology solution providing a best-of-breed settlement model. It will handle a substantial portion of European transaction volumes, transferring securities against payment across many different ge...

/payments /regulation

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The e-Criminal, a serious threat to a safe society

“…you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.” Powerful words once delivered by Tony Montana (Al Pacino) in the cult movie Scarface. Whilst these words were a reflection of Tony’s views as a successful drug baron, they can easily be paraphrased to fit the bi

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Mexico eInvoicing - Are you prepared for CFDI

The chatter has begun in Mexico around the upcoming changes to CFDI. With more than 500,000 companies potentially affected, there is a lot of posturing by solutions in the market place. But what is important and can derail your transition is not the obvious, but what is in the details. If you overlook these following requirements, you may find you...

/regulation Electronic invoicing

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Big data, big opportunity?

Given all the hype about getting closer to customers, you’d think that banks would be first in the queue to invest in technology that enables them to follow individual lifestyles based on unstructured data such as social media, photo uploads and online shopping. But while no one disagrees that better understanding of customers is a good idea, few b...

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Neil Crammond

Neil Crammond risk education & real time market abuse at DIVENTO FINANCIALS

dark and dreary pools

Topic : Investment banks and financial institutions use hidden liquidity to transact 70% of global equities business. How do these dark pools of liquidity work, why are they needed and what impact do they have on the 30% of the market we can see? Presenter : David Norman Date of presentation : 15th February 2013 ‘Dark pools, or dark liquidity pools...

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FATCA Compliance

With less than a year to go until first stage compliance, the clock is ticking. The tasks are piling up and the time is running out. Immediate Next Steps Financial institutions may believe at high level that preparations are fully in hand. But is real operational progress on the ground always as well advanced as internal reports might suggest? The ...

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