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Let’s face it. Complexity is a fact of life in financial services. Mergers and acquisitions, organizational changes, and service offerings across multiple locations result in a maze of disparate and disconnected applications and platforms. In this environment, radical action is needed to lower maintenance costs, improve operational efficiency an...
13 March 2014 /retail /wholesale
What’s the Best Solution for Delivering a Client-Centric Experience? Financial institutions have so many choices regarding service delivery in every aspect of customer interaction. There are packaged applications, traditional CRM packages, in-house custom solutions, as well as modern business process management (BPM) suites. All of these solution...
13 March 2014 /wholesale
Prosumer is a portmanteau originally formed by contracting producer with the word consumer. In a commercial environment, it describes a market segment between professional and consumer. (Wikipedia) Portland, the main city of Oregon, has little to do with the techie Silicon Valley or the greedy and sophisticated city which is home to Wall Street. Fo...
28 February 2014 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
Blinded by the mega deal between Facebook and the 50 employees company WhatsApp for obscene amount of 16 Billion USD, for many followers of digital gossip, the news about the acquisition of Simple Bank by the Spanish group BBVA went almost unnoticed. It’s true that the value of the deal, EUR 100 Mio looks ridiculous in comparison, however I want t...
24 February 2014 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
Paul Blank e-Trading Solutions at TradAir
Last week saw the introduction of mandatory execution on new SEF platforms for certain standardised interest rate swaps. Such swaps will no longer be executed bilaterally between banks and their clients, but rather must be executed anonymously on SEFs. The move to SEF trading has however been tentative, with many buy-side firms holding back, nonet...
Can Improving Your Global Client Experience Create a Strategic Advantage in Banking? Late last year, The Banker hosted a roundtable session at the Association of Financial Professionals (AFP) annual meeting for treasurers and chief financial officers. At the roundtable*, 12 transaction bankers from top-tier banks reflected on the state of the ind...
20 February 2014 /wholesale
Amit Agrawal NA at in transit
Risk Weights Assets (RWA) allocate an amount of capital to the assets held by a financial institution as a function of their risk perception and the origination nature (the higher the perceived risk, the higher the risk weight). RWA are core input in the calculation of a financial institution capital ratio and were first introduced in Basel I Anyw...
23 January 2014 /regulation /wholesale Financial Risk Management
Ganesh Guruvayur Senior Vice President, Head, Hub Solutions at Intellect Design Arena
Partner Finance as a concept is the fall out of risk control measures set within banks that cap the exposures that the banks can take towards a borrowing entity. This is conceptually similar to consortium lending or syndicated finance that is prevalent in the banking world. The latter deals with large ticket capital expenditures incurred by large ...
02 January 2014 /wholesale
To B or not to B, and if we B then how to B – this is the million dollar question we need to ask banks before they setup shop in India. Disclaimer: this article is purely my personal opinion and the thoughts expressed are personal and do not express the thoughts or the opinions of my company or any other employees of my company. ...
16 December 2013 /retail /wholesale
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Many of you signed up to watch and take part in our live webcast looking at global transaction banking in 2014. We asked our esteemed panel to close off our discussion with their top predictions for next year. It is not surprising that the ‘three Cs’ – consolidation, collaboration and competition—all featured heavily in our panel's crystal ball g...
16 December 2013 /wholesale Future Finance
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