33 Results from 2018, /wholesale
Retired Member
The task of integrating a Project Management Office (PMO) in an agile environment could prove difficult, but if done with thorough research and implementation, it can substantially improve efficiency in project execution and production, lowering costs and reducing risks for the organization. Getting Buy-In In order to do this, there first has to b...
14 June 2018 /wholesale Transaction Banking
Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services
The EU has unveiled the awaited plan to create Sovereign Bond-Backed Securities or SBBS in Euro, supposedly “to encourage banks and investors to diversify their holdings of euro zone bonds”. The plan is “meant to address a weakness in the currency bloc that came to light in the 2010-2012 euro zone debt crisis, when banks’ high exposure to their sov...
24 May 2018 /wholesale SEPA and European Payments
We have been analysing, for the thinktank the Bruges Group, the extreme difficulties in which the Eurozone finds itself, after years of economic stimulus totalling over 3% of GDP per annum and the build-up of both the ECB's Asset Purchase Programmes and the loans within the TARGET2 system. These imbalances are insoluble, and there is a big bullet ...
22 May 2018 /wholesale SEPA and European Payments
Antonio Ferre IT Manager at Plastic Forte
Regardless of how a software development project was contracted (fixed price, time and materials, etc.) or how it was managed from a methodology point of view (Agile, Waterfall, Prince2, …), by the end, a software product will be created. This product, irrespective of contract or methods, will have a specific cost, a size, different quality indic
08 May 2018 /wholesale Standards Forum
Paul Grimbers COO at The Glue
The financial services arena is fraught with challenges... Ongoing regulation, increasing competition, an unstoppable demand for digital services, whilst all the time internal demands to drive down operating costs – and this is just a high level summary! Whilst everyone is aware that culture is very important, the fundamental ingredient to overcomi...
01 May 2018 /wholesale Fintech
Best Practices in Managing Internal Capital AdequacyGuaranteeing a Solid Base of Capitalization Cooked down to its essence, the convulsion that overtook the international banking system in 2008 came down to institutions lacking adequate capitalization. The failure of Lehman Brothers — due to its holdings in the subprime market not being sufficientl...
30 April 2018 /regulation /wholesale Banking Regulations
1. Beneficial Ownership Threshold FinCEN has reiterated that the specified threshold (25%) is a floor, not a ceiling. It has left to the discretion of covered financial institutions (FIs) to implement stricter thresholds if they so choose. In addressing a requirement to impose stricter thresholds for certain customers, FinCEN directs that any incr...
19 April 2018 /regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
The speed at which blockchain-based applications are evolving beyond pure financial transactions must not induce banks to mistakenly think that the business is running out of their hands. On the contrary, the relationships and trust that financial institutions have built with their corporate clients are the foundation of a healthy and productive en...
18 April 2018 /wholesale Futuristic Banking
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
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