30 Results from 2014, /wholesale
Retired Member
As a senior executive in a fintech firm, the chances are that these two assertions will strike a chord: you sell solutions and you want the market to see you as a trusted advisor. How do your sales and marketing strategies can underpin this goal. You’re more than a vendor There’s an inextricable link between being a solution provider and position...
21 July 2014 /wholesale
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
As an Italian living in Monza, Formula One is sort of a lifestyle. The Italian Grand Prix is one of the longest running and most important racing events of the kind, having been held at the course of Monza ever since 1922. The Autodromo Nazionale Monza is located near the eclectic city of Milan, the most populous city in Italy. Milan is also the m...
14 July 2014 /wholesale Transaction Banking
Amit Agrawal NA at in transit
The management of intraday liquidity – defined by the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) as “funds that can be assessed during the business day, usually to enable financial institutions to make payments in real time” – is now in the spotlight. Sources of this type of liquidity include central bank reserve balances, liquid assets on...
12 June 2014 /regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation
Dan Barnes Writer at Information Corporation
BNP Paribas is in a real fix. It faces censure for allegedly being found guilty of breaching US rules on money laundering, and of breaching US sanctions, between 2002 and 2009. These alleged breaches relate to Cuba, Iran and Sudan. The risks involved for the bank are potentially terminal; the fine it is threatened with – rumoured to be around US$1...
11 June 2014 /regulation /wholesale Future Finance News Analysis
Bernd Richter SVP - FIS Impact Ventures at FIS
Payments need to be profitable once again, as well as compliant. The good news is that they can be. Granted, payments are not the dependable cash cow they once were – a guaranteed profit producer, easy to maintain on a bed of legacy technology. The game is far from being over however. Making payments pay may be a challenge. But it’s by no means out...
04 June 2014 /payments /wholesale
Act now on transfers before the regulators act on you Despite a significant rise in the number of affluent investors, the wealth management industry’s track record of keeping its customers happy is still poor. One of the key problems affecting customers of execution-only brokers, for example, is the cost and complexity of transferring investment p...
02 June 2014 /retail /wholesale
The news that Barclays has been fined for manipulation of the gold benchmark is another nail in the coffin of trader autonomy and of voluntary data-based benchmarks. It also highlights the risks for speculators operating in the unregulated derivatives market when the ‘house’ is in charge of fixing the price. Q: So who got stung this time? A: Bar...
29 May 2014 /regulation /wholesale Future Finance News Analysis
Now that the industry has (almost) completed Sepa – there is still plenty of work to be done. Investment has been made by both institutions and corporates to get up to speed and in-line with the new regulation – so what is next? The official deadline has passed and we now look towards August 1 2014 as a revised deadline date - with three months to ...
28 April 2014 /wholesale
The banking sector has faced yet more criticism in the last week for its so called “creaking IT systems”. According to the Chief Executive of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), Andrew Bailey, it’s time for the financial services industry to “address a patchwork of computer systems”. In a past blog, we spoke about how 2014 may finally be th...
17 April 2014 /wholesale
Good article from Tim Harford (he of the enjoyable "Undercover Economist" books) in the FT last week called "Big data: are we making a big mistake". Tim injects some healthy realism into the hype of Big Data without dismissing its importance and potential benefits. The article talks about the four claims often made when talking...
08 April 2014 /regulation /wholesale Data Management 101
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