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Keith Bear Vice President, Financial Markets at IBM
Whilst Groucho and MiFID may not normally be associated in the same sentence, the proposed European Parliament amendment activity going on around MiFID II may make Groucho's observation that: 'Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies" particularly apposite fo...
24 June 2012 /regulation /wholesale
Retired Member
Core Banking Systems were built for a different world - a world that gave precedence in banking systems to security, redundancy and reliability and were architected in a product-centric way. Today, those requirements are still present - but it is not enough to be secure - the core architecture must also be flexible, innovative, and agile. Systems ...
21 June 2012 /retail /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
Regulatory Updates Rima Consulting. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System voted to publish final rules (June 7th, 2012) on market risk capital. For Banks with a high proportion of trading assets and liabilities, the final market risk capital rule prescribes methods for calculating the market risk capital requirement (Basel 2.5) for ...
19 June 2012 /regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation
Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo
Many organisations are awaiting further clarification of requirements before determining their approach to FATCA compliance. Indeed interest groups continue to lobby for further burden reducing concessions and undoubtedly there will be further changes to the existing proposed regulations. However whatever the final requirements and relevant impact...
29 May 2012 /regulation /wholesale
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
To understand how Transaction Banking (TB) will evolve there's no need for crystal balls. Just look at what's happening in the procurement departments of the corporate world, and you get a sense of it. I recently attended a presentation showing the likely evolution of the role of a corporate procurement department. It follows a lifecycle roadmap w...
25 May 2012 /payments /wholesale Transaction Banking
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
Electronic delivery of bills and statements promises to save stationery, printing and postage costs for banks, mobile network operators, municipalities / boroughs, utilities and other types of billers. Attracted by the cost savings potential, a large number of billers have adopted eBilling / eStatements technology in recent times. To actually real...
24 May 2012 /retail /wholesale
At the recent annual Mortgage Strategy Summit I addressed an audience of over 60 industry experts discussing the potential ramifications of CRD IV on the EU mortgage market. I am a born optimist so it was with regret I had to deliver some sobering news about the costs of mortgages going forward. In their relentless attempt to punish bankers, regul...
17 May 2012 /regulation /wholesale
In the derivatives industry, significant, year-over-year transaction volume growth has become the norm. With high-frequency trading driving up the volumes of trades to hundreds of thousands or even millions per day, derivatives market participants must be able to manage these higher volumes. Moreover, due to market volatility, the peaks in volume ...
16 May 2012 /wholesale
Overview At present, the limited selection of software that automates supply chain finance (SCF) arrangements tends to be bank-centric. That is, if you want to use software to access a given bank’s SCF credit facilities you must use the software offered by that bank — software that typically comes with a variety of non-banking functionality such a...
07 May 2012 /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
On the 18th of April I organised an expert session during the 11th EPCA summit in Rome. The conference was held in the Palazzo Altieri, a beautiful place with a rich history in the heart of Rome. The topic of that session was “Supply Chain Finance: unlocking the SME”. Speakers contributing to the program were Liliana Fratini Passi (CBI), Reinier W...
02 May 2012 /payments /wholesale Finance 2.0
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