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GABRIEL to accept AIFMD reports from 20 October 2014

The FCA has published updated information on reporting obligations (Annex IV Transparency Reporting) under the AIFMD. They have provided two documents, one for Full-Scope UK AIFMs and Small Authorised or Registered UK AIFMs and the other for non-EEA Above-Threshold and Small AIFMs. Both documents are available for download on the FCA website. The ...

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Arnab Sengupta

Arnab Sengupta Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Cinnamon Pay (www.cinnamonpay.com)

Digital Age: Influence on hapless Customers

Introduction In the present world of disruptions, the rapid progress of the consumer technology is changing the human behavior more than ever before. Many pundits tend to stretch their imagination and predict the future digital world in the next 5 years which may perhaps take 15-20 years to get to that stage. So I need to be careful not to go over...

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David Gibbard

David Gibbard OmniChannel and Digital Banking Evangelist at OmniChannel & Digital Banking

Omnichannel and Digital Banking will Not Succeed in America

Omnichannel and digital banking is such a massive initiative, how do credit union and bank executives get their head around it? There are so many parts, where do you start? Have you ever sat down to create a list of solutions today's members/customers expect, or will soon expect from their credit union or bank? Here is my list in no particular ord...

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20022 joke of the day

20022 is a very powerful, rich, and flexible standard. We’ll hear about it a thousand times at Sibos this week. Here’s a little light relief from all that serious stuff. On the one hand it is possible to extend the standard through the use of Supplementary Data Components (aka "extensions"). Additional data elements can be added to a m...

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Craig Ramsey

Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide

Digitalisation - Mind the Gap

Digitisation or Digitalisation? Whichever is the correct term, we've seen it prevalent at Sibos this year. Much has been said about how mobile players and other non-traditional competitors are encroaching on the space typically reserved for financial institutions. But this Sibos has put into frame more than that. It's not just a few payments that...

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Facebook to pay your rent

Tenants can securely make payments to their landlords through Facebook Salix Homes, a social housing provider based in Salford, in the northwest of England, is one of the first housing providers in the country to enable its tenants to pay their rent via Facebook, through its payment gateway partner. The provider, which manages 8,500 properties acro...

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Ben Poole

Ben Poole Contributor at Finextra

World Retail Congress 2014: The Future of Payments

One of the stream sessions on the first afternoon, Sarah Quinlan, Senior Vice President, Market Insights at MasterCard Advisors, and Bernie Brooks, CEO of Myer, looked ahead to what the future may hold in the payments space. Quinlan began by noting that the way the payments space is evolving is all driven by the great recession following the global...

/payments /retail

Ben Poole

Ben Poole Contributor at Finextra

World Retail Congress 2014: Digital Evolution Index Launch

In a press conference at lunchtime on day one of the World Retail Congress in Paris, MasterCard and The Fletcher School at Tufts University announced the launch of a new initiative that the two have collaborated on - the Digital Evolution Index. The launch chimed nicely with an earlier interview that Anne Cairns, President, International Markets a...

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Ben Poole

Ben Poole Contributor at Finextra

World Retail Congress 2014: The Future Is Now!

The first morning of World Retail Congress 2014 in Paris featured a one-on-one interview conducted by the event’s founder and chairman, Ian McGarrigle, with Anne Cairns, president, International Markets at MasterCard. The title for the interview was ‘The Future Is Now, Are You Ready?’ Cairns began by highlighting just a few of the areas that have s...

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Tejasvi Addagada

Tejasvi Addagada Enterprise Data Head at Fortune 500 financial service provider

A BOON but not a Baboon in Credit scoring landscape

The credit scoring and underwriting landscape is undergoing a paradigm shift with the use of enterprise and social data. The banks are planning on utilising the current organizational capabilities including the infrastructure and skills to offset the credit risk associated with borrowers. Scoring models can now use customer consent data from credi...

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