1077 Results from 2016
Retired Member
I may be old, but I’m hoping that at least I’m getting some wisdom out of my experience. The MacroTourist recently wrote about the potential for a bubble in fixed income and why you just can’t know. Bollocks! I’m not English. And it may seem that I disagree with The MacroTourist (I highly recommend the blog) about the bond bubble. I do not. Instea...
01 December 2016 /regulation
Samee Zafar Director at Edgar Dunn Company
Getting it wrong Pollsters whose job it is to talk to people and predict the outcomes of elections, sometimes get things badly wrong: the general election in Britain in 2015 when Labour performed unexpectedly poorly; the Brexit vote this year which took everyone by surprise; and finally, the US presidential election, which shocked the whole world...
30 November 2016
When sending an important parcel through a courier, you wouldn’t want it to get lost or end-up with the wrong individual. Think about the last time you’ve sent a birthday present through a courier. You’ve personalised the package, labelled it up with the right name and address details before handing it over to the delivery company, ensuring it’s f...
30 November 2016 /payments
Global harmonisation of financial regulation is high on the wish list of many trading firms and, in one sense at least, the regulators in Europe and the US are pretty well harmonised. Both have a tendency to publish long-awaited documents right before major holidays. Last week we saw another example of the regulation ‘holiday effect’ with the CFTC...
29 November 2016 /regulation /wholesale
With the pace of technological change accelerating, we have to believe paradigm shifts are not only inevitable, but plentiful, even in complex, physical markets such as commodities. In those markets the challenge is literally physical – all the paper and manual tracking of supply. Fortunately, technological advances are digitizing key parts of t...
29 November 2016
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Money is not the only thing banks store in their premises. The other valuables are counted in bytes — or even petabytes, i.e. client data. Everything about customers, from their personal information to incomes, spending, shopping habits, their investments, insurances and so on, is kept in bank databases. And banks are not willing to share these re...
29 November 2016 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Vinod Sharma CTO - FinTech Domain at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe
Abstract – Focus around financial inclusion or in my language “Finclusion”. In a recent study it was discovered half of the world’s population, lag behind in access and usage of financial products and services. While significant advances in financial inclusion for both men and women occurred between 2011 and 2014, the gender gap still persists at ...
29 November 2016 /inclusion Financial Inclusion
Alex Kreger Founder & CEO at UXDA
User Experience (UX) in banking is about human feelings, impressions and behaviours while using banking digital interfaces. For my UXDA agency the aim of banking UX engineering is to create financial services that matches users’ needs with banking capabilities and are easy and pleasant to use. So, let’s outline some general Do’s and Don’t’s in ban...
As we edge ever-closer to MiFID II implementation, the position limits debate is once again underway in Europe. Under the new rules the UK regulator is required to impose position limits on all commodity derivatives listed on UK trading venues. In its Consultation Paper the FCA states: “The aim of the new regime governing commodity derivatives trad...
28 November 2016 /regulation
Premium banking has always been about seamless service and pre-eminent asset performance. But now there’s a new factor in the premium equation: the challenge of assuring client trust in a digital age. “Follow the money” is an old adage but one that cyber criminals take to heart still, as they target some of the world’s wealthiest private banking c...
28 November 2016 /security
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