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"Empowering your people" Enabling change is dependent on culture. People make culture. Shift to business agility is about changing the overall culture. The real change will be in the way act...
Organisations are increasingly aspiring to an ideal future state with a settled brand, a critical size, a robust customer network, strong assets, and a geographically replicable business model. But w...
Businesses across all verticals are dealing with the fallout from shadow IT, whether they realise it or not. Shadow IT refers to technology which is brought into an organisation by individual employee...
Introduction 25 years back, Mr. Bill Gates dismissed banks as "Dinosaurs”. Mr. Gates could see the future as it holds true to the current scenario. Its 2018. But has banks became oblivion? I beli...
When it comes to Corporate Risk Management and Governance, a company’s Board of Directors will play a vital and pivotal role for the effective governance of its bank. This isn’t always easy to underst...
WHY MANY ICOs ARE A WASTE OF TIME In Part I of this paper I discuss why you need to exercise caution when assessing whether to invest in an initial coin offering (ICO). In Part II, I will provide yo...
This letter is now public on the www.parliament.uk website, under /documents/commons-committees/treasury/Correspondence/2017-19/ This file name is visa-charlotte-hogg-040618.pdf Some tough questions t...
Loyalty programs give reward points to consumers for making purchases and let consumers redeem their reward points for gifts. By their very nature, reward points look like an alt-coin and quack like a...
Back in the day, if you heard the phrase “trust no one,” it meant either you were talking to someone with problematic levels of paranoia or you were at a theatre watching a really cliche spy movie. No...
Financial services firms around the world have been working hard to hit today’s compliance deadline for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For many investment management firms, there was p...
On May 31st, the FCA published their much anticipated consultations on High-cost Credit (CP18/12) and on Overdrafts (CP18/13). Covering rent-to-own, catalogue credit, store cards, home-collected
We have issued another call to Wolfsberg Group, this time to make major changes to the section in their Payment Transparency Standards 2017 on “On behalf of” payments, and the related Virtual Accounts...