1270 Results from 2013
Retired Member
Everyone’s talking about enterprise (business) governance. Typically conversations focus on the application of structured controls across the enterprise to ensure enterprise-wide collaboration between different business units and IT. This in turn, drives the adoption and practice of policies, standards, controls, frameworks, knowledge content and ...
07 February 2013 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
Despite the growth of automated, electronic trading – whether high-speed or algorithmic or plain vanilla – voice trading is still a key element of markets in most asset classes, and in particular where trades need to be negotiated. We’d all expect firms to keep archives of all electronic transactions, as with all of their computer data. But what...
06 February 2013 /regulation
A recent CUinsight article by this topic explores the untapped up-side in marketing via the eStatements channel. The post was made by a vendor in this business. Nothing wrong with selling, but... In my experience, migrating a user from paper to eStatements is a very good thing in a connected world. However, when a paper statement is delivered, it...
06 February 2013 /retail Online Banking
The Financial Services Club released their latest survey research last week – The Changing Face of Payments 2013. The survey had responses from 450 financial services professionals in a total of 63 countries, with the majority from UK and mainland Europe. The survey builds on a similar exercise last year, asking which infrastructures are most im...
06 February 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Exponential A year after the iPhone was launched, Nokia's CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo was still bullish: “iPhone is a niche product.” Five years later, Nokia lost its mobile crown to Apple. What didn't Nokia know back in 2008? The concept of exponential: it takes just 49 minutes to fill a huge stadium with water, starting with a single drop and do...
Even with the newly announced December 28th mandates by the Mexico SAT, there is still quite a bit of confusion in the marketplace. If you run a Shared Services environment or if you are in charge tax compliance or account payables, here are four issues you or your service provider should be able to answer. How will you deal with the inbound XML...
05 February 2013 /regulation Electronic invoicing
Nick Ogden Chairman at Ogden Research
Yesterday, given that it was a Monday, was an interesting day in the UK. We confirmed that we had exhumed Richard III and then George Osbourne had this to say. “Payments systems sit at the heart of the banking system. They are the hidden from view wirings that operate every time you get wages paid into your bank account, deposit a cheque or withdr...
05 February 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Over the last couple of years I’ve had the opportunity to look at a variety of core banking solutions. What strikes me is that more and more these solutions are similar, not only in coverage – which we can assume they have to be to support the variety of banking functions needed – but also in construct. Service oriented architecture, frameworks, ...
05 February 2013
Industry analysts at Ovum have predicted growth of 3.4% in the IT spend of retail banks around the world in 2013 – following fast on the heels of Celent’s predictions last month of the same growth for total bank IT spend. Whilst this is obviously good news for those in the fintech space, it is worth diving into the predictions a bit deeper. The O...
05 February 2013 /retail
Which factors most frequently determine a Bank’s ATM self-service strategy? a. Customer needs identified through robust research? b. Multi-channel customer strategy? c. Operational servicing model choice? d. Banking innovation and competitive pressure? e. Available industry functionality in hardware and software? f. Bank cost agenda? g. Technical ...
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