Compliance

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…

(Image Credit – ENC Consulting) Why Systemic Financial Crises Are a Broad Failure of Risk Management… Various posts in this blog have catalogued the practice of  risk management in the financial…

This is the second in a series of four posts on the Open Banking Standard (OBS) in the UK. This second post will briefly look at the strategic drivers for…

“Banking as a service has long sat at the heart of our economy. In our digitally enabled world, the need to seamlessly and efficiently connect different economic agents who are…

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…

Previous posts in this blog have discussed how Capital markets firms must create new business models and offer superior client relationships based on their vast data assets. Firms that can infuse…

“In God we trust. All others must bring data.” – Dr. Edwards Deming, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant. The first post in this three part series described key ways in…

“Data! Data! Data!” he cried impatiently. “I can’t make bricks without clay!” Sherlock Holmes – Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Copper Beaches” The first post in this three part series described…

First off, I want to take a quick moment to wish each and every one of my readers,customers, colleagues (both past & present) & collaborators a very Merry Christmas,Happy Holidays…