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Rolf Hauge CEO at Commercial Banking Applications (CBA)
For the first time in many years SWIFT’s MT Standards Release for 2018 (SR2018) incorporated a number of significant changes for banks’ trade finance operations. For many banks it presented a real test of how well they had planned and implemented their trade finance technology solutions for incorporating updates in a more and more demanding marke...
14 January 2019 /wholesale SWIFT Matters
Retired Member
MiFID has achieved the rare feat of becoming a genericized trademark. In the same way that Xerox stands for copy machines in general, MiFID has turned into a synonym for all financial markets’ regulation. Thinking about its scorecard on its first birthday, whether MiFID II really is ground-breaking, or deserving remains debatable. However, there i...
03 January 2019 /regulation /wholesale
Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services
The Bank of England recently woke up and issued its Financial Stability Report and Stress Test results - November 2018. In it the Bank warned that a “further deterioration in Italy’s financial outlook could result in material spillovers to the euro area and the UK”. In its more detailed comments the Bank noted that Italian Non-performing loans (NP...
07 December 2018 /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
On the tenth anniversary of the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the media is full of articles questioning why nobody went to jail for the Great Financial Crisis that followed. Take, for instance, A crisis nobody went to jail for. According to most of these articles, the GFC happened beause of greed, laziness, cronyism and cheating by banks. We can ...
04 December 2018 /regulation /wholesale
The Bank of England recently issued its Financial Stability Report and Stress Test results - November 2018. In it the Bank warned that 2 “further deterioration in Italy’s financial outlook could result in material spillovers to the euro area and the UK”. In its more detailed comments the Bank noted that Italian Non-performing loans (NPLs) account f...
03 December 2018 /regulation /wholesale SEPA and European Payments
The bridge over the Rubicon has been built and we now just wait for Caesar to cross it - key decision-makers in Rome have decided how to get themselves out of their impasse between their proposed Budget and EU Fiscal Stability rules. They have made up their mind to issue a parallel currency denominated in Euro in 2019, in the form of banknote-sized...
29 November 2018 /wholesale Fintech innovation and startups
For financial organisations looking to make the move to public cloud, outdated technology is proving to be a significant obstacle. With the sheer number of regulatory hoops they have to jump through, banks have typically struggled to adopt cloud services at the same speed as other organisations. However, competition against, or partnering with, Fi...
28 November 2018 /retail /wholesale Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
Heads of corporate treasury are crossing paths with digital transformation, a revolution that already started with the advent of the internet and one that is now shaping the world of business and the lives of individuals. Corporate treasurers are increasing their role as information stewards to company decision-makers, and one of the most difficul...
09 November 2018 /wholesale Treasury Management
Since the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008, financial institutions have had to deal with a series of regulations to increase transparency. The objective? Creating a safer, more robust and more transparent financial system. Level of Fines at a Distant Second to the USA Europe accounts for 7% of global AML fines levied in the last 10 years, ...
07 November 2018 /regulation /wholesale Banking Regulations
David Donovan Executive Vice President at Publicis.Sapient
With all the acronyms in the digital world, let’s talk about one more: VUCA. The term itself is not new, but it describes the challenges businesses are facing today. Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. The digital world has heightened customer expectations, which in turn has shortened the life span of software development activiti
29 October 2018 /wholesale Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
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