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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

How Do I Protect Myself When Using Wi-Fi?

Wi-Fi is everywhere. Whether you travel for business or simply need Internet access while out and about, your options are plentiful. You can sign on at airports, hotels, coffee shops, fast food restaurants, and now, even airplanes. Wi-Fi wasn’t born to be secure; it was born to be convenient. Wireless networks broadcast messages using radio and are...

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Building a risk mitigation culture for asset managers

Asset managers are facing a catch-22. More frequent and larger risk volatility shocks are on the cards. At the same time, restricted budgets and resources mean they aren’t getting a clear understanding of scenario analysis for reliable risk forecasting . A recent survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit found that a significant number o...

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Changing a Sales Culture that is Institutionalized

INTRODUCTION Your organization has decided that you must develop new processes, methodologies and technologies to increase the effectiveness and compliance of your sales force. Those you have, the ones that used to bring you great results, are not working or not accepted in today’s economy. You know that if you do not change and adapt, your organi...

/security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services

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Bottom-Up Approach for Business Intelligence

We all get used to looking at Business Intelligence as a tool for strategic decisions mostly for top management. In looking at today’s business intelligence software market you will find a wide array of various types of dashboards, reporting tools, and KPI monitoring tools to support decisioning at the top levels. We have also seen a few good BI a...

/regulation Financial Risk Management

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Clearly better?

An interesting few days in London last week at the annual derivatives bash, IDX. Naturally much of the debate and discussion was on the impending collision of the OTC and exchange-traded worlds that Dodd-Frank and EMIR are determined to orchestrate. Unlike equities, the worlds of OTC and exchange-traded derivatives have gone merrily down parallel...

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What should RBS do first? Account Management Best Practice

What should RBS do first to clear up the mess left behind from the computer failure? Managing Customer Relationships Now I might be looking at this over critically through the eyes of a person who deals with best sales practice and account management sales methodology on a daily basis for Fintech companies but communication through mass media is

/regulation Innovation in Financial Services

Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

Be a person...even if you ARE a bank

I'm been thinking a lot about our fair Natalie lately. One thing you hear about, frequently, is that banks are hesitant to engage with social media because 'why would we open ourselves up to abuse from the public?' Some may see the fate of NewCastle, UK resident Natalie Westerman - whose unfortunate Twitter ID was @natwest - as evidence that it is ...

/regulation /retail Social Banks

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WebOps Hits the Top-Line and the Bottom-Line for NatWest

On-line services are critical to the brand experience and to fees and profits. So why are they increasingly failing? Because IT and customer workflows are increasingly complex. Virtual compute infrastructures combined with rapid application delivery combined with ever more dynamic and real-time business events has created a perfect storm for IT ...

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Keith Bear

Keith Bear Vice President, Financial Markets at IBM

Groucho Marx and MiFID II

Whilst Groucho and MiFID may not normally be associated in the same sentence, the proposed European Parliament amendment activity going on around MiFID II may make Groucho's observation that: 'Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies" particularly apposite fo...

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Can RBS Group turn a bad week into a positive future?

As someone who has experience of socialising customer services for banks, I watched the fallout from the Natwest/RBS technical outage yesterday with great interest. In particular I was struck by how quickly and strongly the customers reacted on social channels. Natwest have a ticker on their homepage that shows recent customer comments from their...

/regulation /retail Social Banks

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