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Alistair Catto

Alistair Catto Managing Director at Beyond

Client onboarding assessment: Creating clarity before committing to change

The challenges of the last 18 months, Brexit, the global pandemic and increasing demands for greater transparency and market control are driving change at a breath-taking pace in Financial Services. Banks are under great pressure to deliver efficiency and lower cost operations, and as a result, are taking an ‘invest to save’ approach within their ...

/regulation /wholesale Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Carl Wegner

Carl Wegner CEO at Contour

Trade Digitisation: To scale is to standardise

The global trade and trade finance industries are nearing an inflection point where we will either embrace digital platforms en masse, or will return to discussions about a future held back by endless challenges, as pockets of digitisation progress. For the most part, the technical challenge of digitisation has been solved through progressive appro...

/wholesale /startups Innovation in Financial Services

Matt Beattie

Matt Beattie Managing Director at Beyond

Implementing a remediation programme: Critical success factors

As financial institutions move to integrate, automate and streamline their systems (all in the face of a toughening regulatory environment), process flows and the underlying data points are coming under increasing scrutiny. As such, customer and operational remediations continue to be a common occurrence. Despite this many remediation efforts have...

/regulation /wholesale Banking Regulations

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The deceptive certainty of proven technology in banking

Some people are super enthusiastic and passionate about the possibilities of new Tech. In many cases however, they will be asked if it is proven technology. Which competitors use this new Tech already and what are their experiences? In short, the need for certainty is quite common. Yet what about innovation, to distinguish you from competitors and...

/retail /wholesale Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Kirston Winters

Kirston Winters MD, MarkitSERV at IHS Markit

2021: Brexit, no equivalence and the day of the SEF

The transitional period ended on 31 December with no relief for European Union (EU) firms on the derivatives trading obligation (DTO) from the European Commission (EC) and only limited adjustments from the United Kingdom (UK). This left many firms with conflicting and incompatible DTOs in the EU and the UK without equivalence (albeit based on iden...

/regulation /wholesale MiFID

Peter Larsson

Peter Larsson Business Eeveloper - Europe at Tietoevry Banking

Nordic payments evolving

One year ago, I posted an article What’s next for Nordic payments? Rise of real-time that is cross Nordic border – the P27 initiative that now has become a de facto infrastructure with a real plan going forward. Even further, Lars Sjögren (CEO@P27) states that there is no plan B! In this work, there are multiple parallel streams to gain traction...

/payments /wholesale SEPA and European Payments

Rolf Hauge

Rolf Hauge CEO at Commercial Banking Applications (CBA)

Trade Finance updates for 2021, no more delays please

I shared my thoughts this time last year about the upcoming SWIFT Releases originally scheduled for 2020 and the importance of early preparation. Earlier this year, the planned SWIFT changes for Trade Finance Category 7 for Guarantees and Standby Letters of Credit were pushed back to November 2021. This delay comes on top of an earlier postponeme...

/wholesale /predictions SWIFT Matters

Bob Lyddon

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

Unicredit ejects the pilot as it prepares to be stuffed in merger with Monte dei Paschi

Jean-Pierre Mustier is to step down as CEO of Unicredit Group, in which he restored Faith and Hope over the last few years. He baulked at Charity: agreeing a merger with Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) on the terms acceptable to the Italian government. There is a valuation gap of about €20 billion: the Italian government would be wanting about €6 b...

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Matt Neill

Matt Neill Managing Director at Beyond

7 steps to planning client onboarding and CLM change

2021 will be a challenging but critical year for financial organisations wanting to deliver change within client onboarding and client lifecycle management (CLM). Covid and the fear of a global recession have dramatically increased the need for digital transformation, automation and streamlined processes, and there is no doubt that banks have to r...

/regulation /wholesale Operational Risk Management

Sophie Dionnet

Sophie Dionnet VP Strategy at Dataiku

Alternative data, AI, and ML: The road to socially responsible recovery

With a total shutdown of certain sectors of activity, it was not surprising that in June, leading economic forecaster EY Item Club predicted that GDP would shrink by 8% this year. Though the drop was not as dramatic as expected, the Office for National Statistics reported that GDP in June was still a sixth below its level in February, before the v...

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