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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

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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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Cloud Undercover

Whether businesses like it or not cloud computing has crept into their infrastructures, in some cases under the radar of IT managers and is doing so via consumer technologies such as DropBox, SkyDrive and Oxygen, something which is turning cloud computing into a stealth-like technology. Many organisations have decided to taking a step back before ...

/security /regulation

Kevin Yee

Kevin Yee Manager at OCBC Bank

Lessons from the thieving hacker

Two days ago Finextra reported on the 'hacktivist' Reckz0r. In a nutshell, the hacker claimed initially to have hacked into Visa and Mastercard, and went on to leak hundreds of account info. No worries though, he is a nice grey hat who just wants to expose security frailties, so no card numbers are shown. Later, he explained that, no, it was some ...

/security /regulation

Martin Bailey

Martin Bailey 

In Confidence

Confidence is a powerful force. A lack of confidence can be devastating. Have enough confidence and you can achieve absolutely anything. All financial markets are underpinned by confidence. Currency relies on the fact that you have confidence in the issuing central bank. Banks rely on your belief that you can get your money back whenever you like. ...

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Market Risk: Basel 2.5 Final Rules-US

Regulatory Updates Rima Consulting. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System voted to publish final rules (June 7th, 2012) on market risk capital. For Banks with a high proportion of trading assets and liabilities, the final market risk capital rule prescribes methods for calculating the market risk capital requirement (Basel 2.5) for ...

/regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation

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Taking the Pain Out of Collection Claim Processing Part II

In Part I of my Taking the Pain Out of Collection Claim Processing series, I described the importance of maximizing recoveries. In Part II I will describe how you can use collection agencies as a strategic resource to help you maximize recoveries. When you have an agency relationship that is built on close collaboration, there arise multiple op...

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