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Andy Mellor

Andy Mellor Product Manager at The Logic Group

Intercompany Recon - The last bastion of manual processes

Now more than ever, robust internal financial controls are a top priority for a financial industry that is fighting to regain the trust of its shareholders. Automation is a sure-fire way to ensure that control can be managed whilst also offering the benefits of saving time and minimising manual errors. Although it’s commonplace for processes such ...

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Financial services industry to bring operations home in 2013

Banks will start to bring a raft of operations back on shore in 2013. In response to having to increase their capital ratios, banks will be assessing every possible avenue in the bid to rein in costs. Onshoring consultancy operations and taking advantage of young, British based talent will be one key way in which financial services companies can c...

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HR transformation : managing complexities

Many global financial organisations and banks are currently undertaking major efforts to transform their operational functions including HR, Finance, Legal and Audit post M&A. The drive is to achieve strategic operating model alignment, operational excellence and cost efficiencies. This requires an integral enterprise approach to assess, evalu...

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New Year Resolutions for Prudent Lending

2013 holds tremendous promise to the financial institutions that appreciate the difference that technology can make in risk management. Here at Scorto we have put together a list of New Year’s resolutions for lenders. The five commitments below will help leaders re-think their tactics for loan origination and take loan application processing to a n...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Top 10 Security Considerations For New Device

There’s a ton of new devices flooding the market and it has been predicted by the North Pole there have been many good boys and girls this year who will be receiving them. Out of Santa’s sack will come computers, tablets, smartphones, and gaming consoles. But if you happen to get one of these new devices, you should know that the first step in enj...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Losing a Mobile Phone Does Not Have To Stink

We’ve all been there. You search your pockets, your belt clip, jacket pockets, every draw, cabinet, bag, couch, and floor, every crevice of your car and dog house. You wonder if you left it in the bar last night or over your friend’s house. You’d text all your buddies to see if they have it but, well, you can’t. It’s that horrible feeling that co...

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UBS Fine - Banks Need to Clean Up Reputations In 2013

Things can’t get much worse for UBS. Weeks after it was rocked by an FSA fine for almost £30 million for failure to detect the trading of a fraudulent banker, the Swiss bank was last week slammed with an almighty fine of almost £1 billion for manipulating Libor rates. The fine is the second largest fine ever levied on a bank and is more than three...

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Banking and compliance: striking a balance

Banks are competitive institutions. To compete they must innovate and in IT terms that means bringing new products and rich applications to market faster than competitors. Getting those products into our hands in tried and tested form gets tougher every day as our platform choices expand to include browsers, tablets, smartphones etc. Like it or no...

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Clearing and Collateral: Distant cousins or close relatives?

The Dodd-Frank and EMIR reforms are having a major impact in the way market participants engage with one another. The mandatory central clearing of swaps is giving rise to a new market infrastructure that introduces more roles and processes, all requiring computer systems to make them work efficiently – Swaps Execution Facilities (SEFs), Organised...

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Dodd-Frank Stands Technically Corrected and Small Banks Lose

“People got a bit lax,” Queen Elizabeth II said last week of the time leading up to the financial crisis. “Perhaps it was difficult to foresee.” The U.K.’s monarch also lamented that her nation’s Financial Services Authority “didn’t have the teeth” to curb risky business through 2008. And dental enhancements for global banking regulators continue ...

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