66 Results from 2013, /wholesale
Dan Barnes Writer at Information Corporation
When regulators define mathematics, the apparent certainty that the science brings is thrown to the wind. Big banks are currently selling off cash reserves, issuing stock and swapping the labels over on balance sheet items, apparently to please the regulators. Are we any safer? Why do some banks have to raise more money? In June 2011, the Basel Co...
20 November 2013 /regulation /wholesale Future Finance News Analysis
It’s Sept 2013, and we’re upon the anniversary of Lehman Brothers. Much editorial this week has been devoted to the perceived risk that still exists in the banking system. Haven’t regulators reformed the markets? Regulators have imposed a lot of changes to the way that banks do business and have even more changes still to happen. These changes are ...
We can soon expect the European Central Bank (ECB) to outline the details of the Asset Quality Review (AQR), an examination of some 130 European banks’ assets, to be conducted in 2014. The AQR may well lead to a polarisation of banks, cutting to the quick on their viability or otherwise. As such it may precede something of a cull… Banks get tested...
Retired Member
In the cash management world, new cash pooling technology has the potential to drive significant efficiencies for both banks and multinational corporations. We all know that cash pooling is a valuable tool for treasurers to manage their liquidity position. The key for this lies in investing in the right technology with the right solutions. Cash
14 November 2013 /wholesale
Penny Hembrow Global Lead, Financial Services at CGI
Outsourcing was once vaunted as the golden ticket to reducing costs. The reality has been somewhat different. Application complexity, siloed architectures, poor data management and bad business processes were just being passed on. What resulted was wage arbitrage and less overhead costs, however it leaves behind complexity, silo based application...
31 October 2013 /wholesale
Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.
Putting Out vs Putting In The ideas of Putting Out Software versus Putting In Software are two radically different approaches and goals. Especially for financial software; the difference is the banks internal needs to the software vendor's external goals. So let me be clear; Bankers Put Software IN and Vendors Put Software OUT, got it. There is a m...
30 October 2013 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
I thought I'd post again this article after the recent outage... Large corporations are today cash rich and their treasurers are accountable for utilizing at best those assets. Preservation of capital rather than pure yield gauges the success of corporate treasurers’ decisions. These objectives and constraints are not so dissimilar from what weal...
30 October 2013 /wholesale Treasury Management
Large corporations are today cash rich and their treasurers are accountable for utilizing at best those assets. Preservation of capital rather than pure yield gauges the success of corporate treasurers’ decisions. These objectives and constraints are not so dissimilar from what wealth managers experience when servicing at best their clients. I ant...
24 October 2013 /wholesale Treasury Management
There’s change afoot for the transaction banking industry. Banks are aiming to grow their share of this profitable market. They’re searching for new ways to differentiate themselves and become the provider of choice for corporate customers. With customer centricity high up the agenda, banks are shifting their approach. By enhancing corporates’ ex...
22 October 2013 /wholesale
Transaction Banking - The Suite Life: Since the financial crisis bank management has given high priority, attention and investment to fee generation businesses and fee generation business that are risk manageable. This has given Transaction Banking (Cash, Trade, FX and Payments) the opportunity to move into the top suite of the banking hotel. Th...
10 October 2013 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
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