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Audit has always been a support function for banks that has served as the last line of defence for keeping the organisation safe from external attacks and provide assurance to business & stakehold...
OTC derivatives market participants are receiving a growing number of requests from their dealers to novate swaps from a one entity to another within the same dealer group. Many of these requests are...
It is six months since the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid II) came in to force and two months since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which means you are probably feeli...
Gamification solves a few primary needs of the Lifestyle apps. It engages users and builds the stickiness of the app. Users want to keep coming back and see if they can get more out the rewards or not...
A whistleblower website, put up in an attempt to persuade Swiss authorities into looking into Fabien Gaglio in more detail, alleges a large-scale financial fraud. The owners of the website, www.hottin...
The value of blockchain is shaping up: an infrastructure layer that enables companies to turn goods into tokens and then trade and settle them. All of this without changing any of the company’s curren...
More and more time is being spent by employees interacting with each other, customers, partners and suppliers, as part of delivering projects, products and services. These interactions often relate t...
Corporate bond investors are seeking operational efficiencies on their fixed income trading desks to lower costs. As the search for bond liquidity across a fragmented credit trading marketplace remai...
The idea of Gig economy is not new. In fact it exists in its rudimentary form by the name of Daily Wage worker. With digitisation of work and remote working ecosystem advancing to next level, Gig econ...
MiFID II has reached its six-month milestone. After gruelling and expensive implementation projects, many firms may have hoped to draw a line under the regulation roll-out. But the effects of the Euro...
One of the things I've noticed since working in the payments space are the tribes and the tension/conflict/cooperation/outright hostility …… The first of these, and longest running is the tension betw...
One thing that is clear from modern life is that it isn't slowing down any time soon, Everywhere you look the world is getting faster and the Financial Service Industry has been doing this for years; ...