TOMORROW’S WORLD: HOW CLOUD COMPUTING WILL IMPACT THE FINANCIAL SERVICES SECTOR IN 2016
By Ian Stone, Managing Director of Anaplan UK and Ireland Tarred with a brush of traditionalism and conservatism, the Financial Servic..
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How Solvency II transformed itself, the fund industry and regulation
Attributed to John Dowdall, Managing Director at Silverfinch. John Dowdall When policy makers first sat down at the end of the 1990s ..
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A BEAR’S GUIDE TO 2016
The US bull market will enter its seventh year in 2016, having restored some $15 trillion to share prices since 2009. At 82 months, th..
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THE TURBULENT ROAD TO INNOVATION
Keith Tilley, EVP, Global Sales & Customer Services Management at Sungard Availability Services Innovate or die. That’s the messag..
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FROM THE EXPERTS: 5 PAYMENT TECHNOLOGY TRENDS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2016
The last few years have witnessed a huge change in the way we make payments. At a recent speech at Trinity College Dublin, Tim Cook CE..
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BIG DATA, ANALYTICS & FRAUD PREVENTION IN THE FINANCIAL SECTOR
By Greg Mason, Partner at Forensic Risk Alliance and Frances McLeod, Managing Partner at Forensic Risk Alliance. www.forensicrisk.com ..
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TECHNOLOGY, SKILLS AND SERVITIZATION: A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR MANUFACTURING?
It has been a turbulent year for the manufacturing sector. EEF, the manufacturers’ association, recently revised down their 2015 forec..
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FROM FRAGMENTED SYSTEMS TO UNIFIED CPM – UNICREDIT PREPARES FOR TODAY’S FINANCE CHALLENGES
By Alice Allegrini is sales director at Tagetik UK Alice Allegrini The finance function is undergoing massive change. Shifting busine..
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NAVIGATING CONSUMER DATA IN THE FINANCE INDUSTRY
Matt Goulet, chief operating officer at Globalscape. The digital revolution hasn’t missed many industries. The threat from cybercrimin..
BUSINESS
FINTECH INCUBATION: MORE VALUE THAN MEETS THE EYE
Felicia Rosenzweig, partner at Prophet For all of the attendant excitement, FinTech continues to strike fear into the hearts of financ..
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WHO IS THE MODERN DAY CFO?
By Ian Preston, VP of sales UK & I at Adaptive Insights The CFO role has, arguably, transformed more than any other executive role..
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TOP 6 TRENDS EMERGING IN FINANCIAL SERVICES IN 2016
Howard Travers, Chief Strategy Officer, MindLink 2015 has been the year of security breaches and regulatory fines but also the year wh..
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MINIMISING SUPPLY CHAIN CYBER RISKS BY ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
Simon Viney is a director of Security Science at Stroz Friedberg, an investigations, intelligence and risk management company. Simon ..
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MITIGATING OPERATIONAL RISK THROUGH CENTRALISING RECONCILIATION
By Eric Werab, Director, Product Portfolio Management, Financial Control Solutions, Fiserv Eric Werab When it comes to increasing ope..
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FINANCIAL SERVICES FIRMS TURN TO BIG DATA INTELLIGENCE TO FIGHT FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY ACCORDING TO XEROX STUDY
As online bank fraud doubles, data security and privacy cited as biggest challenges Financial services companies are increasing thei..
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CHRISTMAS DEBT HANGOVERS: HOW BANKS CAN HELP CUSTOMERS
By: David Webber, MD, Intelligent Environments Christmas festivities may be a distant memory but many people are now suffering from “d..
BANKING
ALL CHANGE: HELPING MERCHANTS NAVIGATE THE NEW CARD TRANSACTION FEE LANDSCAPE
Card transaction fees have recently undergone a significant shake-up following the introduction of the Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR..
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IMPROVING REPUTATION IN THE BANKING SECTOR THROUGH MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
Neil Crespin, Chairman, mcm creative group Neil Crespin In a climate of public antipathy and distrust, morale in the financial servic..
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MONITORING INSIDER BEHAVIOR TO CATCH INTRUDERS
By Hagai Schaffer, VP Marketing and Product Management, Bottomline Technologies Cyber Fraud and Risk Management Cyberattacks are topp..
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THE CHALLENGERS AWAKEN…
Emily Farrimond, Director of Banking at Baringa Partners The Ancient Greeks said there’s nothing permanent except change; nowhere is t..
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DO CONSUMERS WANT ROBO-ADVISORY SERVICES?
Keith Bossey, SVP Consulting, Financial Services, GfK Martin Grimwood, Divisional Director of Financial Services, GfK BBVA Compass, ..
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THE FUTURE OF CYBER SECURITY
Information security is a perennially hot topic, but as 2016 kicks off, many organisations look to take stock over the past year and c..
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OVERCOMING INFORMATION OVERLOAD IN THE FINANCIAL SECTOR
Simon Price, managing director, Recommind Limited With the financial services industry becoming ever more connected, financial organi..
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KNOWING YOUR CUSTOMERS’ NEEDS IS ESSENTIAL FOR BANKING INNOVATION
Keith Rowling, MD UK & Ireland, First Data “What’s the next big thing?” is a question banks, retailers and other organisations con..
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INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT SOARS AS ALBANIA STEPS INTO GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
United States and Sweden join forces to support the development of Albania’s tourism industry through a $6 million project Capital in..
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THE FINANCIAL SECTOR MUST ACT TO TACKLE INTERNAL DATA SECURITY
By Jens Puhle, UK Managing Director of access rights management specialist 8MAN Jens Puhle 2015 may have seen an increasingly ..
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10 WAYS TO PUT TOGETHER A KILLER INVESTMENT PITCH
It’s a topic that every business with any ambitions of growing will be faced with at one point or another – investment. An injec..
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THE IMPORTANCE OF A PROACTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REDUCING CONTACTLESS FRAUD
Nick Peplow, Director, allpay Limited The popularity of contactless payments continues to grow and this should come as no surprise. Wh..
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TOP 5 PAYMENT TRENDS FOR 2016
Ralf Ohlhausen, business development director, PPRO Group Mobile Payments 2016 is set to be a defining year for mobile payment prov..
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2016 – THE FIGHT BACK OF THE ESTABLISHED BRAND
By Henry Daglish, MD of Arena Media Disruption. I’d wager this was one of the most commonly used words in business meetings this year..
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2016 – THE YEAR OF TECHNOLOGY FINANCING, THE YEAR OF BUSINESS GROWTH
Jim Findlay, regional sales manager, Dell Financial Services Over 4,000 UK businesses went into insolvency in Q1 2015 alone according ..
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DISRUPTION AND INNOVATION – FOUR PREDICTIONS FOR THE BUSINESS LANDSCAPE IN 2016
Peter Dickinson, CEO, Greentree 2015 was an interesting year for businesses in the UK. While the UK economy has had some bumpy moments..
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HOW BANKS CAN TRIUMPH IN THE ‘NEW NORMAL’
Gareth Richardson, UK MD at GFT Gareth Richardson In June this year GFT Group released research examining trends in the global financ..
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HOW CROWDSOURCING CAN HELP DRIVE THE BENEFITS OF ADVANCED ANALYTICS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES
By Todd O’Brien, head of sales, advanced analytics, Dell Software Today’s Financial Services sector is characterised by a two importan..
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INSIGHT INTO TOMORROW’S RETAIL BANKING CUSTOMERS
By Matthew Warren is Associate Director, Financial Services, with GfK – the market research multinational. Children born post-Millenn..
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OUT OF THE FRYING PAN…
By Richard Goold, Partner, Moorhouse The financial services sector had cause for celebration last week when the Bank of England’s Prud..
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REALIZING THE PROMISE OF IT GRC
Luc Brandts, CTO at Nasdaq BWise Luc Brandts Governance, risk management and compliance demands that firms tap into a broad spectrum ..
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