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Transaction banking is no exception to the unprecedented challenges that the banking and financial services industry faces today. With traditional business margins eroding consistently, banks are looking to contain costs, eliminate inefficiencies and streamline operations in every function. Moreover, to match the agility of non-bank entrants such ...
21 March 2018 /wholesale Digital Banking Trends
Ben Marsh CEO at iMeta Technologies
In the past decade an unequalled amount of regulatory reform has taken place internationally across the financial services industry; a journey that has not been for the faint-hearted or those lacking in stamina and endurance! All of us involved in this marketplace; clients, institutions and service providers; know intimately that these reforms hav...
23 February 2018 /regulation /wholesale MiFID
KYC is essential for two key reasons; the first is to ensure financial institutions are not enabling criminal activities and secondly to optimise important client relationships. It is now mandatory for all firms to be able to demonstrate that watertight KYC procedures are in place across every department within the organisation. Compliance needs t...
13 February 2018 /wholesale Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis
People’s interactions with their banks have undergone an extraordinary transformation. From the emergence of app-only challengers such as Monzo to the evolution of physical branches, technology has dramatically changed the age-old relationship. However, compared to typical high street interactions, the investment banking landscape has always been ...
07 February 2018 /wholesale Banking Architecture
Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services
Since my earlier blog it has come out that the liquidator is indeed “dealing in” Carillion’s contracts and this is very important for the unsecured creditors who have supplied and remained unpaid in those contracts. The key point is that the liquidator has not repudiated the contracts, and declared them null and void, which was within their gift. T...
24 January 2018 /payments /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
Banks will profile corporate credit risk blending financial indicators with supply chain performance metrics. This point represents the hinge that will connect corporate supply chain process data with innovative credit risk models for banks: Banks will capture and analyze events in the physical supply chain to generate a more profound and realistic...
21 December 2017 /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
Derivatives market participants have been rightfully concerned about the potentially adverse impact of MiFID II on global trading. However, the US and EU authorities have taken significant steps in recent weeks to mitigate some of those concerns. The CFTC has issued an interpretative letter regarding the unbundling of research, something that is m...
20 December 2017 /regulation /wholesale MiFID
Unicredit gave a "Capital Markets Day" in London on 12/12/17 and what an upbeat event it was, accompanied by a slidedeck full of green ticks and words like "signed" and "completed", whatever those words actually mean, and probably a lot less than they were meant to signify. What was shocking, though, was the way Non-P...
14 December 2017 /wholesale Financial Services Regulation
We have published a research paper - you can find it in the section "Research Papers and Training Agendas" on our website - about Unicredit's "recapitalisation". It focuses on: the rights issue for €13.0 billion launched in Q1 2017 to fund the bank's Strategic Plan the charges and provisions taken by the bank in Q4 2016, which ...
10 December 2017 /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
Hopefully for those of us in financial services MiFID II is now pretty much part of the furniture, and whilst it is causing turmoil and deep discomfort, the reality, is that it is here to stay and there is no going back. Ever. The reason I said ‘hopefully’ is that I have heard some horror stories about CEOs of a few buy side firms who are only just...
08 December 2017 /regulation /wholesale MiFID
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