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Bryan Adams of @PhCreative recently wrote a great piece on the Insurance Brandhere. Dare I say an outsiders perspective on the Insurance world. Provocatively entitled: Imagine if Insurance Brands Sta...
Enough has been written about how cool Apple Pay is. And it really is a game changer in a world filled with card data breaches and fraud. Apple Pay's support of tokens and biometrics are extremely imp...
We live in interesting times For any change professional in financial services the relentless onslaught of regulatory change is a challenge. Of course, regulatory change is not a new thing, but the pa...
PCI compliance has long been seen by many as a ‘tick in the box’ exercise, that hasn’t figured high on the information security stack hot list. But that does now seem to be changing. At the PCI London...
In response to the financial crisis of 2008 many of the worst affected banks adopted a “Good Bank, Bad Bank” strategy. In this they hived off their most toxic assets into what was referred to as the B...
Third-party due diligence is an obligation facing financial services when on-boarding and maintaining any supplier, agent, consultant, distributor or service provider to ensure they continue to comply...
The figures below would indeed be very tempting to not only make a case for social media banking but to jump to the conclusion that social media is the future of banking .Take the case of Facebook wit...
The Federal Reserve delayed by two years compliance with the Volcker rule that bans them from betting with their own money through investments in risky hedge and private equity funds. However th
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Dynamite comes in small packages! The big technology companies may claim Silicon Valley as their de facto domicilium, but several thousand miles east of California’s tech heartland lies a booming tec...
Governments around the world are stepping up the fight against tax evasion. Previously, they were content to send requests to one another when they wanted information about the offshore accounts of th...
There has been much commentary of late over the surge in interest in tokenisation, not least on the back of certain mobile payment platforms. Tokenisation, as a principle, has of course been around