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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…

As the Bill Pay Industry Motors On… The traditional model of service providers relying on call centers and face-to-face interactions with their customers to gauge their satisfaction are long past.…

(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…

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 customers leveraging Open Source, Big Data and Hadoop related technologies for a range of use cases across industry verticals. We have seen how…

The first two posts in this series on Cybersecurity have focused on the strategic issues around information security and the IT response from the datacenter. The third post then spent…

“Most people are starting to realize that there are only two different types of companies in the world: those that have been breached and know it and those that have…

“We believe that data is the phenomenon of our time. It is the world’s new natural resource. It is the new basis of competitive advantage, and it is transforming every…

This is the final blogpost in our three part series on Enterprise Dataflow Management and it’s applicability in Financial Services. This post discusses common business drivers and usecases to a…

A Brief (and highly simplified) History of Banking Data – Financial Services organizations are unique in their possessing the most diverse set of data for any industry vertical. Corporate IT organizations…