1026 Results from 2017
Retired Member
Independent asset managers shall maintain relationships not only to custodians. Due to disintermediation and distributed ledger technology they will be able to profit from a much broader range of financial assets. Independent asset managers usually run a very traditional business model, focusing on discretionary asset management. They are very tigh...
29 November 2017 Fintech innovation and startups
Following my previous blog – looking at the ubiquity of the multichannel approach to customer service – we now turn our focus to the industry’s next steps: omnichannel and multimodality. If multichannel is all about offering customers a choice, then omnichannel is about joining everything together to create a single, cohesive experience. The omnic...
29 November 2017
The Final Rule brings with it a raft of regulatory compliance challenges for financial institutions. While its intention is to promote “uniformity and consistency” to “strengthen the system as a whole by further limiting opportunities for inconsistent application of unclear or unexpressed expectations”, the Client Due Diligence (CDD) Final Rule st...
29 November 2017 /regulation
On 22nd November, the UK government reaffirmed its commitment to having a leading regulatory and technology environment in the UK. Within the Autumn Budget 2017 speech, the Rt Hon Philip Hammond announced a new £10bn Regulators’ Pioneer Fund, established to “help regulators to develop innovative approaches aimed at getting new products and service...
29 November 2017 /regulation /startups Fintech
Imagine taking a regular smartphone and turning it into a payment acceptance device with a simple app download. That’s the utopian dream many companies are chasing today and it could bring huge benefits to the payments ecosystem, merchants and consumers as card and mobile payments continue to grow. For small transactions, accepting a payment could...
29 November 2017 /payments Fintech
Niall Twomey Chief Technical Officer at Fenergo
Cloud technology has developed and evolved in line with the myths that surround it. Up until 15 months ago, banks were publicly reticent about moving core banking services to the cloud for a myriad of regulatory and security concerns, including issues over confidentiality of data, lack of control of data, data breaches, and legal and compliance is...
28 November 2017 /regulation
Colin Harper Business Consultant at HPS Ltd
It has now been more than three years since BIS published their paper back in 2013 in response to the financial crisis, with the snappy title of ‘BCBS239: Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting’ ¹. Since then, the world’s largest banks have worked towards the compliance deadline of 1 January 2016, but with only limited su...
Imagine a capital markets desk of a financial institution where a trader is about to press enter on the keyboard to initiate a market position when a message pops up on the computer screen from a regulatory agency notifying of a compliance violation before the trade is entered. With the emergence of SupTech, that day is closer than you think. As...
27 November 2017 /ai Financial Services Regulation
There is no doubt about it – RegTech is hip. Bankers dangle the word over their working breakfasts, while technology teams slather it on proposals they are seeking funding for, along with its cousin, FinTech. The term is a contraction of “regulatory” and “technology” that seems to have no sense of irony about just how traditionally uncool the two ...
27 November 2017 /ai /regulation
Lloyds Open Banking Challenge Hackathon, #BuildanOpenBank, held on the 16-17 November 2017, had 14 teams including SAP taking part. The goal was to show, within 48 hours, an Open Banking value proposition, how it would work and a business plan. SAP looked at how a bank might address the needs of people that are vulnerable or becoming so, such as Al...
27 November 2017 /retail Open Banking
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