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Islamic Asset Management: Summary Islamic finance has moved from being just another buzzword in last decade to an extremely popular and viable alternative in today’s interconnected financial world. Islamic asset management involves merging conventional asset management processes with holistic and socialistic principles of Sharia for identification ...
19 March 2015 /wholesale
Nanda Kumar CEO at SunTec Business Solutions
The era of ‘free for all’ banking may soon be over. Already under threat, its demise is accelerating as the inherent unfairness of ‘free banking’ becomes more apparent, forcing an avalanche of change in banking IT. The recent PwC report “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” labels free bank accounts as “unsustainable”. Putting free banking up for...
17 March 2015 /retail /wholesale
Anthony Pereira CEO at Percentile
The financial crisis exposed a number of weaknesses in the financial industry’s ability to assess, realise and mitigate risk on a very public scale. The knock-on effect of this exposure has been, and continues to be, vast with financial institutions being subject to heavy scrutiny from regulators. The expectation on banks to demonstrate increased ...
16 March 2015 /regulation /wholesale
Vikash Kumar Director at Acuity Knowledge Partners
Introduction In a market marked with fierce competition, consolidation, evolving technology and more than ever stringent regulatory framework, banks are finding it tough to not only acquire new customers but also to retain the existing ones. Banks are exploring avenues to improve customer experience through uniform and controlled processes for on...
16 March 2015 /retail /wholesale
Having spent much of 2014 getting to grips with new capital reporting requirements, European banks are now shifting their focus to liquidity monitoring and reporting. Over the course of 2015, they face significant changes to the way they calculate and report on their liquidity, and to the frequency of their regulatory disclosures. In order to keep...
25 February 2015 /regulation /wholesale
Governments around the world are stepping up the fight against tax evasion. Previously, they were content to send requests to one another when they wanted information about the offshore accounts of their citizens. However, there is now a growing consensus that countries should automatically share this information with one another in a process that...
10 February 2015 /regulation /wholesale
Regulation of the financial markets is a never-ending process of modification, improvement and extension. Nowhere is this clearer than in the case of the Basel Accords. It is now five years since the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision developed Basel III in response to the global financial crisis. In the intervening years, the Basel Committee h...
19 January 2015 /regulation /wholesale
Financial market structure changes, largely driven by G20 reforms, are arguably the catalyst to the inefficiency and ever increasing liquidity drought in the secondary european corporate bond markets which investors look to address. Access to liquidity remains the biggest challenge for investors as banks are unable to provide liquidity because of ...
14 January 2015 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
‘Design Considerations’ for Commercial Banks Commercial Banks are no exception to the ‘Digital Tsunami’ that is sweeping the globe. While Retail Banks try to emulate the models adopted by the retail giants such as ‘Amazon’ and ‘Google’ that have emerged as role models in defining Customer Experience ( CX ), the Commercial Banks are in a fix whet
24 December 2014 /wholesale
I was asked recently which regulation I think is having the biggest impact on custodian banks in Europe. Many people would point to the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) or Basel III and the Capital Requirements Directive IV (CRD IV). There is no doubt that a lot of organizations are finding it complex and costly to comply with thes...
19 December 2014 /regulation /wholesale
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