Barley Laing UK Managing Director at Melissa
What is clear from the pandemic is that financial institutions need a standout online presence if they are to prosper today and in the future. The health crisis has hastened acceptance and reliance on digital solutions for home working and shopping. The same goes for banking and payments as consumers become increasingly comfortable engaging with th...
24 September 2020 /regulation /identity Data Management and Governance
Retired Member
No enterprise has ever wanted unplanned downtime of their services; and that is especially true in the financial services industry. Over the last two years, there have been multiple banking system failures in the UK market that have hit the headlines. Some have been that major that they have actually seen customers actively switching to competit...
23 September 2020 /security /regulation Banking Regulations
Kirston Winters MD, MarkitSERV at IHS Markit
After the recent uptick in EuroSTR (a.k.a. €STR) volumes in late July driven by the major CCPs switching from using EONIA to EuroSTR for discounting all Euro OTC interest rate products we looked at August data to see if this was just a blip or whether EuroSTR in fact held its increased share of the market throughout August. In June, prior to the C...
21 September 2020 /regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation
As digital transformation continues to impact the financial services sector, Asset Servicing (AS) firms are under significant pressure to modernize their processes. To transform successfully, they need to work closely with their clients to create frictionless alignment during the end-to-end investor lifecycle journey. 1. Straight-Through Process...
17 September 2020 /regulation /devops Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Adam Krug CLM Ambassador at Pegasystems
“How can we reduce false positives?” is the million-dollar question facing the banking industry. Costly and potentially harmful from a customer service perspective when a legitimate account is frozen unnecessarily, the silver bullet is yet to be found. But this problem lies in the very nature of fraud detection engines used during the KYC process –...
11 September 2020 /regulation /crime Financial Risk Management
Victor Kupcis Enterprise Sales Executive Data Analytics - CEE at Google Cloud
Global trends, changing business models and innovations pose new challenges for the world of payment transactions. New payment providers simplify payment processes and seemingly threat the existing ecosystem of banks and financial service providers. Seemingly – because banks also keep up with the times. Within comprehensive services, valantic has ...
11 September 2020 /payments /regulation Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com
As a follow up to the blog published on 8 June, foreign direct investment oversight continues with several countries issuing new rules or extending previously established rules. While much of this stems from COVID-19 and the uncertainty of market stability, it also speaks to the lack of trust governments have for their foreign counterparts. Since...
10 September 2020 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
Hani Hagras Chief Science Officer at Temenos
Throughout the last half century, science fiction movies have been filled with the idea of an artificial intelligence (AI). Such films often portray a forthcoming dystopia where humanity is in conflict at the whim of the evolving technology. Today we find ourselves living in a new frontier defined by data and automation, however, rather than the e...
09 September 2020 /security /regulation Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Leon Gauhman Founder and CPO/CSO at Elsewhen
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are increasingly viewed as a tantalising proposition by investors, especially in this era of COVID-19 inspired low interest rates. However, incumbent banks have so far been reluctant to engage with the fast-growing crypto market because of the sector’s less reputable elements: with their wild fluctuat...
09 September 2020 /regulation /crypto
Adrian Sargent Founder and Managing Director at ESG Treasury Ltd
All you may have already seen the Finextra article with reference to Green RWA Asssocation, the theory ids bansk need to hold capital for all risks, therefore our paper proposes a methodology to allocate captial for climate change risks. Read the article here: https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/36527/maths-for-esg-how-one-calculation-could-ign...
09 September 2020 /regulation /sustainable Banking Regulations
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