From one Golden Week to another: easyMarkets looks at gold’s rollercoaster 2016
Gold futures up by 5.7% since China’s February 2016 Golden Week Highs of $1,400 per troy ounce possible in the short term US mo..
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Top North East financial adviser firm talks corporation tax
Explore Wealth Management, one of the North East’s longest established independent financial advisers,has spoken about how businesses ..
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Innovative new dealCancellation product from easyMarkets to democratise trading like never before
66.6% of traders are NT (intuitive-thinking) types (Elite Trader) dealCancellation breaks through psychological barriers to trading f..
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Governments and central banks risk inflation, Bank of England has done its bit, now the politicians’ turn
Tom Elliott, deVere Group’s International Investment Strategist August is traditionally either a vague, directionless month for capita..
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Ready for the new EU payments value chain?
‘By Bruno Cambounet, VP Banking and Financial Services at Axway‘ 4 ways PSD2 can generate innovation, healthy ‘co-opetitio..
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EMVCo Streamlines Approval Process for Mobile Payment Devices
EMVCo now delivers formal industry testing and certification for contactless mobile payment-enabled devices Technical body, EMVCo, now..
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CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE: DIGITAL STRATEGIES IN PAYMENTS AND COLLECTIONS
Grant de Leeuw, Global Sales Manager, TALKINGTECH Consumer behaviour and expectations have changed beyond all recognition in the past ..
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Putting SMEs first: the alternative to the overdraft
The regulatory landscape in the wake of the financial crisis has resulted in a significant portion of bankfunding being withdrawn – in..
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The collateral conundrum – mobilise!
Nerin Demir, Head of SIX Repo Ltd & Securities Finance at SIX Securities Services In the aftermath of the financial crisis, collat..
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Why a rules management system can untie financial services’ hands
By Mark Amstrong, VP and MD EMEA at Progress Regulation is the finance industry’s middle name. At a time when digital transformation h..
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With the Right Active Manager, You Really Do Get What You Pay For
In the world of investment management, it’s all too easy to get hung up on labels. Peter Askew For example, there’s the constant deba..
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Post Brexit – UK workers CAN have financial security
By Kesh Thukaram, Director, Best Insurance, www.bestinsurance.co.uk When the people of Britain voted in June to leave the EU it sent s..
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Worldpay heads down under with Australia licence
Worldpay expands payment processing in Australia with customers including ASOS, Expedia, Cathay Pacific and many more Worldpay, the gl..
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UK CARD FRAUD LOSSES CLIMBED 18 PERCENT IN 2015, LARGEST RISE IN EUROPE
Interactive map from FICO and Euromonitor International shows card fraud rose in 10 of 19 European countries last year HIGHLIGHTS: FIC..
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Post-crash banking regulation is transforming the world of corporate lending – for the better
Mia Drennan, CEO at GLAS When discussing the impact of financial regulation – particularly big, sweeping changes that encompass multip..
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What to make of the headlines? Brexit and Bank of England policy, EBA bank stress tests
By Tom Elliott, deVere Group’s International Investment Strategy As traders go on holiday and markets become thin, expect greater vol..
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Token, Inc. Launches London Office to Answer Demand from European Banks
Multiple trials and POCs underway with banks seeking to monetise PSD2 via revolutionary new payment rail Token, Inc., a new crypto-pa..
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PAR – THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
David Worthington, VP, Business Development, Bell ID Whether it is EMV, NFC, HCE or TSP, there is certainly no shortage of acronyms wi..
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GOODBYE TO ALL VAT? EU INDIRECT TAX AFTER BREXIT
Nicholas Hallamchief executive of VAT consultancy Accordance considers VAT after Brexit A year or so ago, I asked DonatoRaponi, EU VAT..
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BREXIT: WHY INVESTORS MUST NOW ‘THINK GLOBAL’ TO MAXIMISE AND PROTECT WEALTH
By Nigel Green, founder and CEO of deVere Group The Brexit vote outcome continues to send shockwaves throughout the world. Nigel Gree..
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The politics, economics and investment implications of Brexit
By Tom Elliott, deVere Group’s International Investment Strategist Investors should above all remain calm. Today’s Brexit vote does no..
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Struggling Banks Need to Modernise and Improve Software Quality Management
By Lev Lesokhin, EVP Strategy and Analytics, CAST Lev Lesokhin Recent outages at the Post Office and the official EU Referendum voter..
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To be or not to be?
BY RECKON TEAM “To be or not to be (part of the European Union)… that is the question…” In a matter of days, UK voters are bein..
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What next for Cheque Imaging?
The good old reliable paper cheque has seen a renaissance over the last few months as it once again becomes a key element in what is t..
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Technology Preventing Minor Regulation Causing Major Problems: The Butterfly effect
By Mike Davies, VP EMEA North, GMC Software It already feels like an age since the Autumn Statement and Spending Review, when business..
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RUSSIA’S NATIONAL PAYMENTS SYSTEM: THE JOURNEY SO FAR
By Alexey Parshin, Chief Payments Technology Officer, Compass Russia has been discussing the creation of a national payment system sin..
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Don’t take your eye off working capital management this summer
Small and medium-sized businesses must not take their eye off the ball when it comes to managing working capital through the summer se..
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How Choosing a Compliant Broker Benefits Traders
Eliza Eliadou is the head of compliance at easyMarkets, one of the world’s most trusted financial brokers. We recently had the opportu..
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Can Brexit stop protection malaise?
By Kesh Thukaram, Director, Best Insurance, www.bestinsurance.co.uk Kesh Thukaram An easy question; what do the UK oil and gas and st..
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Here are some of the top tips for spotting counterfeit currency:
British Pound Every note in the UK varies in size – with each note getting slightly larger as the increase in value. So if you’v..
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VAT after Brexit
Nicholas Hallam chief executive of VAT consultancy Accordance considers VAT after Brexit Recently, David Cameron came under intense po..
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The PCI DSS comes of age with v3.2
By Gavin Buckton, senior security consultant at Nettitude If your organisation doesn’t store, process, or transmit payment card infor..
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If the nation backs FinTech, we need to address a few things
Rich Wagner, CEO and founder of APS Rich Wagner Global investment in FinTech ventures in the first quarter of 2016 reached $5.3 bill..
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Finance is the next big sector to be Uber’ed
By Ed Cox, Managing Director, Forward Media Internet entrepreneur Marc Andreeson famously said that ‘Software is eating the worl..
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It’s time for real time accountancy
By Rob Nixon Rob Nixon The backbone of an Accountancy firm is compliance work and according to a recent survey of 103 UK firms 86% of..
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FUTURE CHEQUE CLEARING MODEL PLACES EMPHASIS ON SPEED AND INNOVATION
Cheque volumes in the UK may have dropped from four billion in 1990 to 644 million in 2014, however the introduction of the Future Cle..
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The problem with Blockchain
Philippe Gelis, CEO and Co-Founder of Kantox Philippe Gelis Bitcoin was the buzzword of the financial services sector not so long ago..
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