1270 Results from 2013
Retired Member
The emphasis on innovation has never been more acute; that has been clearly established based on the findings of this year's Efma-Infosys Innovation in Retail Banking study. But the study has also found that the innovation effort in most banks is not supported by a designated central resource or by an organizational framework that brings together ...
05 December 2013
Andre Malinowski Head of International Business at Computop GmbH
SEPA, the so called Single Euro Payments Area, is a combined effort of the EU governments, the European Commission and the European Central Bank to create one integrated payments market across Europe for all organizations or individuals making or receiving payments. By replacing today's fragmented national payment systems with a single set of SEPA...
04 December 2013
When IT infrastructure collapses, companies quickly realise how business critical it is. RBS learnt this lesson the difficult way this week when its systems collapsed on the busiest online shopping day of the year, leaving customers unable to use cards or pay for goods online. At the highest levels, the bank has admitted that its IT systems have ...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a new webpage which gives information of the volumes of approved person applications for controlled functions that it has received and made a decision upon. These figures will be published every six months, starting with the period from 1 April 2013 to 30 September 2013. The information published ...
04 December 2013 Financial Services Regulation
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has detailed changes to its Handbook from September 2013 to November 2013. Changes to the Controllers and Close Links Reporting provisions require that these reports now be submitted electronically through the GABRIEL system. This is to reduce submission errors and issues with reports not being logged as rec...
Introduction In the years since the launch of the iPhone in 2007 we have seen a huge shift in the power base in the IT world. Probably the most significant change is that your IT department is no longer in total control of the computing power in your business. Everybody is now walking around with the power equivalent of a 1970s mainframe in their p...
04 December 2013 Business Knowledge for IT
The iPhone is rapidly making Japan Apple’s bestselling region. In stark contrast, the business sector is still risk averse. It has been particularly slow to adopt in the financial services sector, with trading technology a prime example. So is the best path to adoption one of sustained innovation rather than the disruptive innovation that most Wes...
04 December 2013 /regulation
Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
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04 December 2013 /payments Information Security
With a wide range of channel choices for retail customers, banks need to be aware of the usage and preferences for each channel which can vary for multiple reasons including the purpose of the transaction, complexity and where the person is from. On the digital channel, customers usually require a fast and convenient service such as simple transact...
04 December 2013 Future Finance
Nick Levy Partner - Financial Services at IBM Consulting
In every customer communication there’s one simple message: “I - the customer - have something to say.” But is anyone listening? It's as simple as ABC. A is for ANYTIME and ANY WAY. Banking customers talk to their banks at any time they need them, not just 9 to 5, and not in ways that banks can always control. Customers expect the freedom to con...
03 December 2013 /retail
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