1137 Results from 2015
Andy Hirst VP Banking Solutions SAP at SAP
In a word: Sibos. That major event on everyone’s calendar is done and dusted for another year. With Singapore still (relatively) fresh in our minds, I thought I’d sum up my key reflections. What topics were firmly on the agenda – and what took centre stage? Is there a new ‘business as usual’? Absolutely. It was no surprise that digitisation was the...
03 December 2015 /sibos
Retired Member
Who allocates ISINs to financial instruments? You could easily get half-a-dozen different answers based on the assumptions of people in financial markets. As a starting point, ISINs are not issued by ISO (the International Organization for Standardization). ISINs are issued by organisations that have been given the sole right to issue them for ...
02 December 2015 /regulation
Neelesh Parekh Advisor in Financial Services at .
Whilst we all implicitly understand the benefits of the omni-channel customer nirvana, more consideration needs to be given to the cost to serve, revenue uplift and operational impacts. Last week Adele made my case for robust quantitative reasoning (rather than vanity) even stronger. Being able to flit between Call Centers, Branches, Smart Phones,...
02 December 2015 Innovation in Financial Services
Jason Ward Senior Director Enterprise, UK & Ireland at EMC
For the regular fans of Countryfile that caught the autumn episode on the mating habits of deers, you’ll know that it is peak season. While the links between deer and the financial sector may not initially seem obvious, there are many parallels between this season and the ongoing battle between the established alphas of banking and insurance, and ...
01 December 2015 /startups
Ben O'Brien Managing Director at Jaywing
Today, the 2015 stress testing results of the UK’s seven largest banks and building societies have been revealed. The results show that there has been significant improvement in stress testing processes since the 2014 review, however the results identified considerable variation across banks, and highlighted areas where stress testing and capital p...
01 December 2015 /regulation /retail
The challenge of tackling regulation continues to cause undue worrying and stress for many in the world of investment banking. The problem is not that complying with individual regulation in itself is difficult (although some are more difficult than others), it’s simply that the volume, pace and concurrency of regulatory change is compounding the ...
01 December 2015 /regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
So, who’s on your holiday gift list this year? That list is a lot longer than you think; consider all the names of hackers that have not yet appeared on it. Scammers will do whatever it takes to get on your holiday gift list! Here’s how to keep these cyber thieves out of your pocket: Before purchasing from a small online merchant, see what the Be...
01 December 2015 /security
The industry needs to start thinking about data differently. If you want to get the best possible outcome from your transformation programme, you need to pay adequate attention to your organisational data. Banks' data is the blood in their veins. It's the key ingredient of everything they do. Yet, data is often neglected. When it comes to new archi...
Tis the season to be jolly, and with big retail events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the Christmas season is also becoming an increasingly online experience. This also means there are a host of seasonal hackers looking to take advantage of others’ goodwill over the coming months. As we start doing more and more shopping online, often letting...
01 December 2015 /security /regulation
The disruptive potential of blockchain, the back-end technology that powers Bitcoin, lies in its ability to radically simplify financial processes. The mathematics behind the system are complex, but the ‘end product’ is simple: a highly secure, self-maintaining network which dramatically increases efficiency for transacting parties by rendering ‘c...
01 December 2015 /payments
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