Retired Member
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 ...
02 August 2010 /regulation /sibos
Richard Chapman Head of Strategy at SunGard
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...
22 July 2010 /sibos Financial Risk Management
Miloslav Hoschek Freelancer at e-Silk Road, NGO
cont. copyright Miloslav HOSCHEK PhD independent consultant mhoschek/ad/gmail.com
16 July 2010 /payments /sibos Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Roy McPherson
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
29 June 2010 /regulation /sibos Finextra@Sibos
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...
22 June 2010 /payments /sibos Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
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...
09 April 2010 /payments /sibos
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...
06 October 2009 /sibos Asia Financial Services
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 ...
01 October 2009 /sibos Asia Financial Services
Looking back on last week's Sibos, the one thing that really strikes me is how important pre-arranged meetings were. Numbers might have been down, but the people that were able to come along were determined to walk away with as much value as possible. The focus was on meeting and talking to customers, peers and suppliers - exchanging ideas and ta
24 September 2009 /sibos
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
The Finextra@Sibos team have returned from Hong Kong exhausted but exhilarated after a week in which we posted: 30 news stories 100 company announcements 108 photos 9 videos Members of the global Finextra@Sibos community were also busy at the show, writing 27 blog posts to provide a unique insider's perspective on this year's exhibition and confe...
22 September 2009 /sibos /wholesale Finextra@Sibos
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