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Client Money Risk and the need for process transparency

The banking and financial service industry is under ever increasing scrutiny from the regulators. Under the microscope are the banking practices and procedures that affect virtually every area of the industry and every role. There is a regulatory expectation, and in many cases, a requirement to create transparency, prove controls and procedures a...

/regulation /sibos Financial Risk Management

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The Language of Process

How does your organization describe business processes? Few organizations can claim that they do so in a language all employees understand. If your employees find business process descriptions can they be 100% confident that they are reading the current and approved version? In this blog Mike Gammage argues that process notation is now a strategi...

/regulation /sibos

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Risk in Spreadsheets - Control Required

A recent CFO.com article reminds me why everyone loves spreadsheets – quick to create, easy to use, the ideal business tool. Although there is a snag - availability risk. Management’s inability to identify critical spreadsheets so that they can gain control over their use, is most concerning to auditors. Due to the preponderance of spreadsheets ...

/regulation /sibos

Richard Chapman

Richard Chapman Head of Strategy at SunGard

Match On, Match Off: Administrative Burden vs Ops Efficiency

When my interest in matching and reconciliation solutions began around 10 years ago, solutions were little more than a box in the corner producing daily exception lists for manual review and archival. Investment and technology have had an incredible effect on such solutions that now include complex ETL integration, pre and post import validation a...

/sibos Financial Risk Management

Miloslav Hoschek

Miloslav Hoschek Freelancer at e-Silk Road, NGO

2015 Strategies for Social Networking Payments

cont. copyright Miloslav HOSCHEK PhD independent consultant mhoschek/ad/gmail.com

/payments /sibos Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Roy McPherson

Roy McPherson 

Cash and Liquidity Management obstacles.

In 2008 the great and the good of the banking world were attending SIBOS Vienna with no more thought than for any previous SIBOS or banking trade show. Even as delegates were checking into the conference on the Monday morning shockwaves were sent throughout the assembled bankers as news of Lehman’s and the fall out of the toxic loans hit the news

/regulation /sibos Finextra@Sibos

Miloslav Hoschek

Miloslav Hoschek Freelancer at e-Silk Road, NGO

Q Eurozone Deflation and Clearing Houses Mechanism

Please, may I get an answer to following 2015 hypothetical scheme: In the case ECB' s Board will announce the negative discount rate ( official rate under ZERO level) as a long-term lasting new doctrine for a battle with deflation in eurozone, what may happen then? cont. copyright Miloslav HOSCHEK PhD independent consultant mhoschek/ad/g...

/payments /sibos Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

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Cheque mate?

The Payments Council announced late last year cheques are to disappear in the UK by 2018. To most people this might feel like a case of, so what? Particularly for corporates, where the use of cheques is dramatically less than say a sole trader or SME. So what impact will this have for corporates? Companies of all sizes will be affected in some way...

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Buy-side Perspective: Corporate Actions Still a Priority?

With an increasing pressure on revenue and margins, corporate action losses are becoming more difficult to absorb within the business. The risk profile has not changed, but the ability to absorb these losses is now substantially different. It should therefore be a high priority for 2009/2010. Standardisation and automation is key to preventing l...

/sibos Asia Financial Services

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Corporate Actions: Faxes Working Overtime

Too much time drinking the XBRL "cool-aid" can seriously damage your health, as can obsessing about the co-existence of ISO 15022 and ISO 20022 message formats, without dealing with today's issues of data management. As a collective industry, let's face it, we are still heavily process oriented towards the sending and receiving of fax ...

/sibos Asia Financial Services

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