4358 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
If I was a Financial Director of a medium to large sized business there should be some alarm bells going off right now concerning moving to mobile devices. Especially if you have invested a huge sum of money on SAP, looking beyond FI/CO modules, any mobile initiative by the company could make large parts of the SAP system redundant for hours on en...
21 January 2013 /security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo
The FATCA regulations have been widely tipped to be arriving very soon. However, multiple date changes so far for final FATCA regulations have created a huge amount of uncertainty in the market, which has contributed to making it increasingly difficult for financial institutions to map out product/project timeframes. Nevertheless, even in the abse...
17 January 2013 /regulation /wholesale Data Management 101
Because Dodd-Frank and MiFID are getting most attention on the compliance front from the financial markets community, that doesn’t mean that every country is doing what the USA and EU are doing or planning. One example is around the recording of dealings with customers. While the retail banking and payments sectors are looking at how they can res...
16 January 2013 /regulation
January is always a difficult month, with many workers returning after a long Christmas break to hundreds of emails and the stress of the new business season. The financial sector faces no exception to this and is probably the industry that will be suffering the most in the coming weeks. To ensure all work is completed on time and to a good standa...
16 January 2013 /security /regulation
Over the last few months, there have been a number of announcements by vendors stating that they are now supporting the einvoicing process in Latin America - specifically Brazil Nota Fiscal and Mexico CFDI. Many of these vendors are either traditional European signature providers, Supplier Networks, eInvoicing Networks, and B2B Managed Service pr...
11 January 2013 /regulation Electronic invoicing
There used to be a joke at Wegelin - the oldest banking establishment in Switzerland - that the only two ways of leaving the bank as a relationship manager was retirement or death. I'm afraid taxes got them first! The closure of Wegelin is a significant event in the ongoing battle between Switzerland and global tax authorities, which started bac...
11 January 2013 /regulation
Andy Mellor Product Manager at The Logic Group
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 ...
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...
09 January 2013 /regulation
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...
08 January 2013 /regulation
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...
08 January 2013 /regulation /retail Innovation in Financial Services
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