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Fraud is much like a balloon – if you squeeze one end (through new tools, policies, strategies), the pressure builds and “balloons” out elsewhere. For banks it means fraud moves to another channel, pa...
Sibos 2011 has been talking about innovation and not just at Innotribe. Google Wallet, Movembank, changing the business model for banks and a new approach to regulation have all been discussed. One to...
It’s a fact that when it comes to banking and payments, customers have high expectations of reliability, efficiency and dependability. This has not changed over the decades. What makes it more challen...
So Monday has come and gone – what’s the mood of delegates at Sibos? With some exceptions I believe the feeling is of cautious pessimism. We know that things are not going well, but for the time being...
Payments hubs have been a talking point for a number of years now. Once envisioned as the 'silver bullet' for payment system consolidation, the reality has become somewhat different. I've talked to ...
The Target2Securities (T2S) initiative has the ability to revolutionise trade processing in Europe. The projected consolidation and centralisation of processes is designed to lower operational costs ...
While some of the get-togethers have already started to happen, Sibos 2011 starts in earnest in Toronto on Monday and promises to raise some important issues. I was last in Toronto almost thirty years...
It’s hard to believe that Sibos is upon us again. It doesn’t seem like almost a year since we were all in Amsterdam. (Although they do say that times goes faster as you get older, so maybe that’s to b...
We all know that SIBOS is a massively important event for the FinTech community, it is also a perfect time to lay down competitive traps for your competition. Your potential customers will be listenin...
Effective communication with customers is undoubtedly a key objective for all organisations, but with the rise in automation in the financial sector, banks are under increased pressure to use this in ...
Having not long come back from visiting one of the Greek Islands I declare my hand as a fan of Greece, or at least its Islands. It pains me to see the problems its going through but you can’t help b
Sibos once again fast approaches, the programme is largely set and delegates can begin to plan their week in Toronto in some detail. As the recent financial crisis is no longer centre stage, the overa...