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Here’s a scary statistic: 90% of big corporate banking clients would consider switching to a different financial institution for better service around onboarding, account maintenance, service requests and inquiry handling. Pega recently asked Finextra Research, a leading specialist in financial technology news and information, to conduct a survey o...
22 February 2016 /wholesale
The perceived wisdom of the economic press is that the bank of Japan’s move to apply negative interest rates against central bank reserves is designed to encourage banks to lend to businesses, rather than to retain cash within the central bank, in order to help kick-start the Japanese economy back into growth, after a long-term period of stagnati...
01 February 2016 /regulation /wholesale
Today’s financial customers today are a discerning lot, more so with the pervasiveness and evolution of mobile phones and technology. Shrinking boundaries of doing business and the need to work and trade across time zones fuels the desire to partner with an equally nimble footed and “always on” financial institution. “Always on” translates to bein...
05 January 2016 /retail /wholesale
Another day, another robo-advice headline. It’s a human truth: we love to dissect a new trend and debate its merits. Internet communication amplifies this and we risk developing a distorted view of priorities; in particular, how to fill the growing mass-market advice gap. Here’s some context: type in robo-advice and Google returns over 900K entrie...
07 December 2015 /wholesale
From pins and passwords to biometrics and palm vein readers... are we really becoming more secure? We are changing to new ways of identification and data security that are very depending on our physical identities. What will the impact be on our security? Data and information security is one of the burning concerns of financial services institution...
07 October 2015 /wholesale
Anand Sampathkumar VP, Head Products & Settlements Reference Data at Standard Chartered Bank
The last decade brought out the importance of service as a differentiator. It is important to ride the technology growth to provide differentiators in products & services. The reference of “Information age” is just taking shape. Exciting bigger action is waiting to happen. To ride this wave and maximise returns we need to focus on the four let...
07 October 2015 /wholesale Data Management 101
Hans Tesselaar Executive Director at BIAN
In the last few years the financial landscape has been drastically changing shape, with new technology entrants coming onto the market and offering innovative solutions to financial services. The FinTech wave has even made its way onto the political agenda – Chancellor George Osborne announced a plan to boost competition by encouraging banks to op...
21 July 2015 /retail /wholesale
Paul Blank e-Trading Solutions at TradAir
Interesting to see that Profit&Loss running a story that the US futures Exchange ICE may be preparing to buy our all three shareholders (Credit Suisse, BNY Mellon and FXCM) of FX platform Fastmatch for around $200m-$250m. As the FX market continues to fragment, and higher regulatory costs for bilateral trades start to bite, exchanges are no dou...
20 July 2015 /wholesale
The majority of single-dealer platforms (SDPs) – especially those of regional banks, provide mainly principal (rather than agency) based pricing to clients. That’s where the bank takes the other side of the trade (even if the bank covers the trades by back-to-back hedging with their liquidity providers), making their money on the spread, rather th...
13 July 2015 /wholesale
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