1270 Results from 2013
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
It has long been believed that elderly, which depending on your definition, are people over the age of 60 years old, are targeted by scammers due to their generations naïve upbringing. But from my perspective, a 65 year old grew up in the 60’s and there’s nothing naïve about the Vietnam war/Woodstock generation. My dad’s one of them, and we have t...
25 January 2013 /security
Retired Member
Reading on Finextra last week about dematerialisation in the Netherlands reminded me about the issues that you face when you want to move from paper documents to electronic documents – particularly when those documents have a legal and transactional importance. Information that investment firms depend on - term sheets, prospectuses, corporate act...
24 January 2013
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
There is no question that the principles of supply chain finance (SCF) are strong and that the correspondent benefits are considerable. The perspective to get financed on the basis of the client’s creditworthiness should line up multitudes of roaring companies demanding for such an attractive—and apparently low cost—facility. Yet, reality shows th...
24 January 2013 /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
Research out earlier in January, from TheCityUK, has shown that financial services accounts for a substantive 9.6 per cent of the UK’s GDP. This was up from 9.4 per cent in the previous year. When combined with professional services, the percentage contribution rises to 14.5 per cent, despite employing seven per cent of the country’s workers, alth...
24 January 2013 /retail
Everyone at some point in their life was at the bottom of the food chain… but how do you beat time and forge a presence in your industry sector?... As an aspiring entrepreneur aiming to breach the start-up scene, the first thing to note is that I have a very small position in the market and therefore will struggle to gain any traction when voicing ...
24 January 2013 /payments /retail Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
It's always seemed like the wrangling over regulation in Europe's capital markets was, in many ways, a proxy for the broader political debate raging across the region. No surprise, then, that on the eve of today's speech by David Cameron we saw that the European finance ministers have agreed the creation of a vanguard transaction tax bloc that wil...
23 January 2013
The answer to that question for most of us has probably been “learning by doing”. If you get the right job that puts you in a role where you get the opportunity to deal close-up with technology, you can be a step up the ladder from other colleagues. If a senior manager happens to have a bit of spare time to explain not just what you need to do w...
David Csiki Managing Director at INDATA
Great article in FundFire assessing the state of compliance and employment opportunities for those with compliance experience. Among the key points made are that compliance is more important than ever and the fact that, with Dodd-Frank, many of the rules have yet to be written, let alone implemented, for asset management firms. The author also su...
22 January 2013 /regulation
It’s pretty frightening when I hear my colleagues who specialise in security services describe the kind of things that hackers get up to – maybe because I think that I’m pretty clever (38 years in IT, etc) but then something simple catches me out. For example, on the Eurostar back from Paris last week an email popped up in my Blackberry from Visa, ...
21 January 2013 /payments
If I was a Financial Director of a medium to large sized business there should be some alarm bells going off right now concerning moving to mobile devices. Especially if you have invested a huge sum of money on SAP, looking beyond FI/CO modules, any mobile initiative by the company could make large parts of the SAP system redundant for hours on en...
21 January 2013 /security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
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