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Retired Member
Innovating to address the ever evolving needs of the customer will always be a matter of importance to banks, as they strive to deliver new services both faster and competitively priced. However, delivering robust transaction banking capabilities is fundamentally key for financial institutions to maintain a stable and sustainable business on behal...
30 October 2012 /payments /wholesale
Anish Kanayi Consultant at IT Industry
The call for sustainable banking has been answered by banks in various innovative ways - transformed processes, novel products and channels, fresh policies. With the active support of technology solutions, banks are seen gradually turning to sustainable banking (a)Process innovation There are various organizational initiatives like the UNEP-FI a...
29 October 2012 /retail /wholesale
Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide
After years of speculation, this week in Osaka we finally appear to have a SIBOS with a SEPA conversation worth having. With the date for compliance across the Eurozone now set for February 2014, we are beginning to see a move by corporates to start to adopt SEPA standards. The business case for migrating ahead of the 2014 date has always been a ...
29 October 2012 /sibos /wholesale Finextra@Sibos
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
I have never known ethics to be talked about so much as in the last year or two and we all know why. However, I was intrigued the other day when the Chartered Institute of Investment Services (CISI) (of which I am a founder member having been grandfathered in through my Stock Exchange membership) sent me an email stating that from next year all me...
24 October 2012 /regulation /wholesale MiFID
The FATCA introduction date (1st January 2013) is looming large and focusing the attention of financial institutions on what needs to be done. From my conversations with several financial institutions over the last few weeks, it’s clear that they are busy analysing the IGA or ‘full-fat’ FATCA agreements (depending on their location) and trying to ...
22 October 2012 /regulation /wholesale Data Management 101
Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo
We are currently experiencing an unprecedented series of new regulations, each of which will require the collection of new client/entity data and support documentation to achieve full compliance. The problem is that each of these regulations will dictate the collection of new pieces of data – some looking for Tax Identification Numbers (TIN) or US...
08 October 2012 /regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation
In an era of increased regulation, with stiff competition from other banks for business with blue-chip corporates and a lower appetite for risk, where can regional banks turn to for long-term sustainable growth? On the corporate side, for an increasing number of domestic corporate leaders such as Lenovo from China or Airtel from India, impetus for...
26 September 2012 /wholesale
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
To build an estimate of this market I am using the below assumptions. I will limit so far the exposure for Europe to collect you suggestions/comments. I have similar data also for the other regions (i.e., NA, Asia, ANZ, Africa, South America) European Very large bank (e.g., Deutsche Bank, RBS, Santander, BNP): average of 30 deals/year with 30m $US...
20 September 2012 /sibos /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
Samarth Shekhar Regional Manager EMEA at SixThirty Ventures
Further to my previous post calling for more SWIFT-style sharing of IT and back office among European Banks we now have (1) Deutsche Bank calling upon rivals to share investment banking technology; (2) ING promoting an API developer portal for building open source Retail Banking software; and (3) the ECB moving closer to a European banking union...
14 September 2012 /retail /wholesale
The story is so well known that many details are now forgotten. For example that it was not Mr. Hayek who invented the idea of the Swatch but that he took it over two years after the launching. Or that Swatch, originally doesn't stand for "Swiss Watch" but for "Second Watch" Swatch began development in the early 1980s, under th...
04 September 2012 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
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