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The recent OCED (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) “Compendium of Productivity 2017” publication showed global growth, measured by GDP (Gross Domestic Product), should rise from ...
In the first of this series I outlined the key challenges and opportunities presented to financial services (FS) organisations adopting public cloud technology. In this second article, I continue by d...
Watching the Equifax debacle unfold has been a bit like watching a badly written coming of age story - just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does. The plot has certainly thickened as it has ...
At a recent Microsoft UK, Local Government Partner event, there was some excellent insight on the Digital Agile Aging Market. The key note speaker Ian Spero, Founder of the Agile Aging Alliance, rec...
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The introduction of the Securities Finance Transaction Reporting (SFTR) directive, will give financial institutions an ideal opportunity to consolidate and improve their approach to data management. H...
I attended an excellent conference last week that brought together senior executives from the buy-side, the sell-side, venues and technology firms to debate and make sense of our industry. Naturally m...
Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technology? Digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are what most people think of when they hear “blockchain”, but alternative uses for blockchain and distri
In an earlier article entitled “The unquenched longing for a transformed KYC-AML solution” I had talked about the key challenges that financial institutions (FIs) have been facing with regards to the...