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Why Your Corporate Banking Clients Just Aren’t Feelin’ the Love

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...

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Japan... the land of the dwindling interest rate

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...

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API strategy to counter digital disruption

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...

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Robo-advice - Is the tail wagging the dog?

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...

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Biometrics, the password you can not change

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...

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Anand Sampathkumar

Anand Sampathkumar VP, Head Products & Settlements Reference Data at Standard Chartered Bank

Swear by the four letter word

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...

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Hans Tesselaar

Hans Tesselaar Executive Director at BIAN

Making sense of the government’s banking API initiative

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...

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Paul Blank

Paul Blank e-Trading Solutions at TradAir

Talk of ICE exchange to buy FX platform Fastmatch

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...

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Paul Blank

Paul Blank e-Trading Solutions at TradAir

Why Dealer-to-client FX platforms should provide TCA tools for buy-side clients

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...

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Paul Blank

Paul Blank e-Trading Solutions at TradAir

Why SDPs should provide TCA tools for buy-side clients

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...

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