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The Global Payments Industry enters 2017.. It is not without reason that the payments industry lies at the heart of the FinTech boom. Across the globe, hundreds of startups are vying…

“All I do is sit at home and watch Netflix. ” – Kylie Irving The Power of Real Time Anyone who has used Netflix to watch a movie or used…

Blockchain and IoT are a marriage made in heaven. Blockchain can enable & augment a variety of application scenarios and usecases for the IoT. No longer are such possibilities too futuristic –…

“We’re only at the very, very beginning of this next generation of computing and I think that every industry leader will be the ones that transforms first. I don’t care…

Today’s European financial markets hardly resemble the ones from 15 years ago. The high speed of electronic trading, explosion in trading volumes, the diverse range of instruments classes & a proliferation of…

The first blog in this two part series (Deter Financial Crime by Creating an effective AML Program) described how Money Laundering (ML) activities employed by nefarious actors (e.g drug cartels,…

THE STATE OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES IT ARCHITECTURE… This blog has time & again discussed how Global, Domestic and Regional banks need to be innovative with their IT platform to constantly evolve…

THE AML CHALLENGE CONTINUES UNABATED… As this blog has repeatedly catalogued over the last year here[1], here[2] and here[3], Money Laundering is a massive global headache and one of the biggest…