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Empowering Corporate Clients is the Key

Servicing corporate clients is always tricky. They are very demanding and always trying to lower their cost of banking with high expectations from banks. The scale of business that the corporate clients bring in, which compliments their negotiating power ensuring that the corporates get what they want. Banks have been traditionally extending their...

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Chinese can now buy real estate with Bitcoin

Bitcoin acceptance in China has now extended into real estate with a residential developer in Zhangjiang Hi-Tech park in Shanghai finding a new way to promote sales through the acceptance of Bitcoin virtual currency. Shanda Group, one of the large IT giants in China, through its real estate development arm, opened sales of its first real estate inv...

Asia Financial Services

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FCA FAQs on CRD IV confirm that data quality is a priority

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a new webpage on the fourth Capital Requirements Directive (CRD IV), which answers a number of frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the regime: general questions on CRD IV; FCA reporting; timing of implementation; data quality; using data; EBS reporting; investment firms; common reporting; and...

Financial Services Regulation

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2014 ERP Upgrade Budget Risks in Latin America

In 2014, Latin America has announced new tax and electronic invoicing policies which will divert IT funding and staff away from strategic initiatives while exposing multinationals to potential operational shut downs and severe financial penalties. If you are running a single ERP global instance or you are implementing a consolidated ERP in Brazil,...

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Gamification Addiction - will banks get hooked on dopamine?

I seem to be finding a lot of articles relating to gamification nowadays. I read this Forbes articles recently and it really resonated. It is strange how gaming and entertainment, despite seeming trivial, have come to be seen as having the potential to make a profound impact on our work environment. However, as I read through his examination o...

Elton Cane

Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia

It's hard to pick a winner in the future of payments

PayPal has been doing a fair bit of engagement over the past 5 years with its burgeoning developer community and reaching out to start-ups, as you would expect from any mature, successful Silicon Valley company. In its most recent program it is itself nominating candidate startups to receive up to $50,000 in waived processing fees by way of suppor...

/payments Future Finance

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Information Governance Removes Financial Drain of Compliance

Financial Services Institutions (FSIs) are increasingly faced with a host of regulatory and legal woes, which are increasing operating costs and eating into profits, as they continue to grapple with the uncertainty of changing compliance and reporting requirements. FSIs face potentially business threatening fines for non-compliance. Recently, J.P....

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Neil Crammond

Neil Crammond risk education & real time market abuse at DIVENTO FINANCIALS

code of silence broken !

code of silence broken CITI , RBS . BZW . UBS . GSF . ICAP . RABOBANK cartel traders guilty of persistent market abuse . I struggle to find confidence in our markets when yet again senior players are found guilty of manipulating and abusing our exchanges . The markets have griped for years about market abuse ; layering crossing ; spoofing etc

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Pat Carroll

Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft

Standing Still on Security Inhibits Development in Payments

I read an interesting piece earlier last week on imrg.org (the website of the UK Online Retail Association) arguing that consumer concerns over security could inhibit the adoption of many new payment methods and technologies. It said that despite dramatic increases in technologies that would allow for smoother and more convenient payments, consu

/security /payments Innovation in Financial Services

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And the Winner Is... Hybrid Trading!

With the structure of global OTC markets – particularly OTC derivatives - going through some fundamental changes at the moment, it is perhaps not surprising that the main focus of many firms in the industry right now is on how to comply with all of the new regulations that impact their business. But just complying with rules and regulations and...

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