1135 Results from 2009
Retired Member
Could this be the step forward that we need? The FT reported yesterday that the government has backed more flexible parental leave, allowing women who return to work after six months to transfer the remaining maternity leave to their partners. This means instead of the mere two weeks leave that men are now entitled to, they will instead be able to...
16 September 2009 Women in Technology
The past year has seen a surge of non-banking players entering the retail banking space to capitalise on growing consumer suspicion of conventional high street banks. Tesco in particular has seen a doubling of retail deposits in recent months, and a short time ago announced the opening of a customer service centre to support its personal finance o...
16 September 2009 /retail
Are we seeing the up-and-up?
16 September 2009 Whatever...
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Eventually talk at Sibos settles on the layout of the conference and exhibition hall. While the facilities at the Hong Kong centre are impressive, it has ruffled a few feathers. The exhibition hall is split between two, completely separate floors, separated by two sets of stairs. The conference sessions are further afield. In fact you can attend al...
16 September 2009 /sibos
Parth Desai Founder and CEO at Pelican
Cutting costs is a priority for banks and investment in the right connectivity solution is an important part of lowering headcount and improving the bottom line. It is true that most bank systems cannot cope with the increase in payment messages we are currently seeing. The solution is to adopt a unified, standard approach to payments messaging a...
After having survived the typhoon, the real business of Sibos has started: debating the key issues facing banks and their corporate customers. SEPA migration is still a key topic with its implications for potential Asian payments consolidation. Many of the delegates to whom I have spoken have expressed the feeling that we are still talking about th...
16 September 2009 /payments /sibos
Day two and yet again talk about ‘hubs’ has been circulating through the conference. This is a perennial topic with barely a presentation or talk going by when the word ‘hub’ is not applied to yet another part of the payments industry as if the term alone will be the panacea for all things technological. Quite frankly, none of this helps as it is ...
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
In 2007, a U.S. couple fell victim to identity theft when a criminal accessed their online bank account and stole $26,500 from a home equity credit line. The money was transferred to an Austrian bank that refused to return the funds to Citizens Financial Bank. So Citizens Financial informed the couple that they were liable for the loss. When the c...
16 September 2009 /security /regulation
As dawn broke on the second day of Sibos, delegates across Hong Kong woke up confused. Was Hong Kong being battered by a force 8 typhoon, or not? Conflicting emails and stories flew around the city – was it safe to go out? Were the clouds moving off? Those that braved the weather and made it to the start of the day’s sessions were in for a treat. F...
15 September 2009 /sibos Innovation in Financial Services
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
There are certainly plenty of positive noises coming out of SIBOS and a real feel that the worst of the financial and economic crisis is over but is this flag waving just a bit to soon and overly optimistic? Over the last six months we have seen many indicators that the economies of the USA, the EU, Japan and China are doing far better than expecte...
15 September 2009 MiFID
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