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Now that the industry has (almost) completed Sepa – there is still plenty of work to be done. Investment has been made by both institutions and corporates to get up to speed and in-line with the new regulation – so what is next? The official deadline has passed and we now look towards August 1 2014 as a revised deadline date - with three months to ...
28 April 2014 /wholesale
The banking sector has faced yet more criticism in the last week for its so called “creaking IT systems”. According to the Chief Executive of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), Andrew Bailey, it’s time for the financial services industry to “address a patchwork of computer systems”. In a past blog, we spoke about how 2014 may finally be th...
17 April 2014 /wholesale
Good article from Tim Harford (he of the enjoyable "Undercover Economist" books) in the FT last week called "Big data: are we making a big mistake". Tim injects some healthy realism into the hype of Big Data without dismissing its importance and potential benefits. The article talks about the four claims often made when talking...
08 April 2014 /regulation /wholesale Data Management 101
I went along to this PRMIA event on Thursday evening hosted by Credit Suisse and sponsored by Acacia Capital. Viktoria Baklanova introduced the panel with Joseph Tenaga as MC for the panel and very quickly got a plug in for her about to be released book written with Joe on money market funds. For those of us who don't know so much about money mar...
25 March 2014 /regulation /wholesale Data Management 101
Patricia Hines Head of Corporate Banking at Celent
In today’s competitive environment, financial services firms are faced with the challenge of maximizing revenue, reducing attrition, and maintaining customer relationships. That means adopting a holistic approach when it comes to developing true customer-centricity, the cornerstone of client lifecycle management. I define client lifecycle manageme...
25 March 2014 /wholesale Transaction Banking
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...
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