Risk Management

The Buy Side is perhaps the biggest segment of Wall St & the financial markets – there are roughly 7,000+ mutual funds, thousands of hedge funds which invest across 40,000…

After a decade of focusing on compliance with regulatory mandates, Banks are back at fixating on technology innovation. The reason is obvious – over the last five years, Silicon Valley majors…

This blog has from time to time discussed issues around the defensive portion of financial services industry  (Banking, Payment Processing, and Insurance etc). Anti Money Laundering (AML) is a critical…

Financial Risk Management as it pertains to different industries – Banking, Capital Markets and Insurance – has been one of the most discussed topics in this blog. The business issues…

Despite the introduction of new security measures such as EMV chip technology, 2016 saw the highest number of victims of identity fraud , according to a new report from Javelin…

I had the recent honor of being interviewed by Nick Ismail, editor at Information Age UK. We discussed IT trends driving financial services worldwide. For this week’s blogpost, I wanted to…

We have discussed the topic of market surveillance reporting to some depth in previous blogs. e.g.http://www.vamsitalkstech.com/?p=2984.  Over the last decade, Global Financial Markets have embraced the high speed of electronic trading. This…

We have repeatedly discussed how Predictive Analytics built on Big Data capabilities can create a tremendous amount of differentiation and value for Banking and Insurance companies. However, one of the…

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“The recession of 2007 to 2009 was still the most painful since the Depression. At its depths, $15 trillion in household wealth had disappeared, ravaging the pensions and college funds…