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An overreliance on manual workarounds and tactical mitigants are preventing globally systemically important banks (G-SIBs) from realising the full benefits of BCBS239. In its second progress report pu...
Back in March, I wrote a blog entitled, Banking's New Mantra: Must Play Well With Others about the need for banks to ally themselves with non-traditional partners and wider ecosystems to compete in t...
The banks are too big to fail. Everyone says it and so it must be true. The last two decades have seen the rise and fall of the big bank concept. Take the ultimate global bank, the ‘Citi’ that never s...
EBAday celebrated its 10th anniversary in Amsterdam with a 19-session program, a sold-out exhibition floor and 871 delegates. After allowing for some days to let the dust settle, it is now a good mome...
London is often considered to be the world’s ‘fintech hotspot’, with more than three quarters of London’s financial tech community claiming the city is a better incubator than other global tech hubs, ...
Should financial institutions offer lines of credit (such as overdraft facilities) for the very poor? The question is prompted by some comments on a couple of my earlier posts, in which concern is exp...
I have written seventeen blogs at Finextra, all about banking technology. But not like this one. Don't ask me why I'm stepping out of my usual mould, but the weather in Atlanta was beautiful. Day a...
It is very impressive to see the capabilities and possibilities smartphones already delivered to our lives and the potential they have. From the digital banking perspective, having a client base that ...
I had dinner on Sunday night with three 13 year old girls. They were the daughter and two friends, of a close friend of mine I hadn't seen in a while. In addition to catching up on old times over a bo...
Experts are predicting an injection of energy into the housing market. One of the highlights in the Conservatives’ election manifesto was a promise to double the number of first time buyers within th...
Virtual Currencies Continue to Hog the Limelight! Change is Coming to Virtual Currencies Regulation Virtual currencies straddle the lines between legitimate operations and unregulated operations. Rece...
Death, taxes and digital money? The old adage about two things that cannot be avoided seems to have been expanded by Citi, who said to the U.K. government that digital money adoption was inevitable. ...