BREXIT: THE RISKS TO THE CITY AND FINTECH HAVE NEVER BEEN GREATER
Erki Kert – Founder and CEO, Big Data Scoring Erki Kert In less than three months, the United Kingdom goes to the polls to answer a v..
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LLOYDS GOES DIGITAL – BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR LOYALTY?
By Christopher Evans, Collinson Group Lloyds Banking Group recently announced the creation of an in-house digital analytics team in th..
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WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU CAN’T GET OUT OF COMPUTE JAIL
By Jon Leppard, Founder and Director. Future Facilities Out of all sectors of business, it’s Finance that has the most unenviable posi..
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UK PLC TO BENEFIT BY £322 BILLION FROM BIG DATA AND IOT – DON’T MISS OUT!
By Mark Wilkinson, SAS Regional Vice President – Northern Europe and Russia/CIS. The value of big data equity in the UK was estimated ..
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PRIVACY VS SECURITY: IS THE CYBERSECURITY INFORMATION SHARING ACT BENEFICIAL?
By David Poole, Business Development Director at myPINpad On 18 December 2015, President Barack Obama signed into law the US budget, a..
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SENIOR MANAGERS REGIME – WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE INDUSTRY?
By Ronald Gould, European Chairman of Compliance Science After years of discussion, deliberation, consultation and prep, the long awai..
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AUDITING IN CYBER: HOW ORGANISATIONS CAN KEEP TRACK OF THEIR DATA
By Professor Mark Rodbert, CEO of idax The seemingly never-ending series of data breaches of the last year have pushed cyber security ..
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DIGITISATION KEY IN DRIVING UK EXPORT MARKET FORWARD
By Ian Kerr, CEO, Bolero International www.bolero.net Ian Kerr The ever-fluctuating properties of international trade often leave t..
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DESPITE THE HEADWINDS, INVESTORS HAVE IMPORTANT REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL
By Nigel Green, founder and chief executive of deVere Group Nigel Green Since last summer, the global financial markets have been tur..
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TOP TEN BIGGEST MISTAKES BY NOVICE INVESTORS – AND HOW TO AVOID THEM
David Liddell, CEO of IpsoFacto Investor Investment is not necessarily easy and there are all sorts of distractions and hurdles for th..
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FORESCOUT AND FIREEYE EXPAND PARTNERSHIP, ENABLING FASTER RESPONSE TO CYBERSECURITY THREATS
ForeScout Technologies Inc., the pioneer in agentless cybersecurity, and FireEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: FEYE), the leader in stopping today’s ..
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MIFID II: WHY YOU SHOULD NOT SCALE BACK YOUR IMPLEMENTATION EFFORTS
By James Stirton is senior energy consultant, EMEA at Allegro Development. James Stirton The countdown to the arrival of MiFID II in ..
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TRANSFORMING THE RETAIL BANKING ECOSYSTEM: IT’S ALL ABOUT TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
Steve Walters, national sales director, Ricoh UK Long gone are the days where transferring money, paying bills and setting up direct d..
BANKING
COMPREHENSIVE ARCHIVING IN 2016
By Mike Pagani, Senior Director of Product Marketing Smarsh Archiving solutions have become indispensable for financial firms, and not..
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THE CLUES TO DETECTING FRAUD ARE HIDDEN IN RELATIONSHIPS
Emil Eifrem of Neo Technology explains how graph databases are providing an innovative method for uncovering fraud rings and other com..
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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..
BANKING
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..
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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 ..
FINANCE
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..
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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..
BANKING
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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