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Data analytics not for "rocket scientists"

We've all read the reports that in the wake of the financial crisis, risk management and analytics needs to move to the top of the...
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Transaction processing in microseconds?

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Sybase-Aleri deal plays to the advantage of remaining pure-play CEP vendors

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The worst of regulatory oversight for banks is yet to come

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Good bank, bad bank

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A Cashless Future?

A new report, The Way We Pay 2010 published recently by The Payments Council, talked about the move towards a cashless society and...
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Stress test more frequently

What would a financial crisis be without the obligatory stress testing of banks, but as guest writer, Michael Thompson, managing...
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AML screening in the cloud

Governments publishing reference data to the cloud? Are they living in cloud cuckoo land? Apparently not says Colin Kerr, industry...
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Reconciliations have finally arrived

In the wake of the crisis and new regulations such as the Dodd-Frank Act, financial services firms are beginning to realize that...
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Sibos preview: Banks engage with clients in cyberspace

Will the use of social networking technologies to engage with clients stop banks developing solutions clients don't want? Social networking...
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Sibos Amsterdam: SEPA the right way round

E-invoicing should have come first, not SEPA standards on direct debits and credit transfers, says Bo Harald of Tieto. By getting it the...
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Sibos Amsterdam: Reducing the cost of the "iceberg"

SWIFT's 2015 strategy announced at the opening plenary of Sibos is about going back to basics and deepening its core. Having created such...
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Are your core systems ready for the new era in banking?

Erik Bogaerts, Innovation director at core banking systems provider, Callataÿ & Wouters, says traditional banks may be at more of a...
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Video interview: Asian banks will find Basel III difficult

Suresh Sankaran of Fiserv talks about the challenges Basel III presents for both Asian and European banks, and also tackles the sensitive...
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E-invoicing on SWIFT

SWIFT is raising its ambitions in the e-invoicing space saying that banks could reuse existing SWIFT components and that invoice data could...
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Putting business continuity back at the top of banks' agenda

Guest blogger, Jonathan Morton, vice president of product marketing, IPC Systems, says business continuity planning has slipped further...
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Finovate Europe - Innovate or be left behind

Banks are like "oil tankers", which are difficult to move and change direction, and unless they partner with innovative third party...
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Social media - The rules of engagement

SEB's social media expert, Annelie Gullström, talks about the challenges banks are faced with when it comes to interacting with customers...
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Editors comment: EDM is dead, long live EDM

Data industry veteran Hugh Stewart who is the newly appointed sales director of SmartStream's DClear Services would not concede that EDM is...
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Clouds are gathering

Keystroke changes of trading algorithms accessed in the cloud; the FIX standard delivered as a service. These are just some of the...
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Playing it safe

With the rise in financial crime, which is impacting banks' profitability and reduced IT budgets, banks are finally taking an...
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EuroFinance Miami: eBAM - Empty promise or Holy Grail?

Electronic bank account management (eBAM) promises a lot in terms of giving companies greater oversight and control of account openings and...
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Come back public cloud, all is forgiven

The debate about 'public' versus 'private' cloud computing continues but do customers really know what they are buying is 'cloud' or is it...
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IMF hacked - is a new approach to data protection required?

Recent cyberattacks on the IMF and other high-profile organisations suggests that traditional IT security approaches are no longer...
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One-size-fits-all cloud solutions not suited to financial services

Guest blogger, Lance Sinclair, managing director of Radius, says the next big phase of the cloud computing revolution will happen when...
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No more watching and waiting

Colin Talbot of Microsoft says cloud computing can help mitigate some of the risks banks face when it comes to handling watch list...
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Sibos gets a new currency

Social data and collaboration, and alternative currencies such as the Sibos-only currency, the Reputone, are just some of the topics being...
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eBAM will be the biggest thing in 2012

Kurt Vandebroek of SunGard AvantGard says 2012 is the year for eBAM following completion of a successful pilot with SWIFT and five major...
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Sign of the times

Guest blogger, Chris Pickles, head of industry initiatives, BT, says SWIFT has sent a clear message to application vendors this year at...
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Banking on utilities

A new utility service that will help market regulators and financial institutions see where risks exist is on the cards, but guest blogger,...
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ISO 20022 - no big game changer

Alan Jones of SmartStream Technologies says there is still a lot of work to be done before the industry reaps the benefits of the new ISO...
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Standards are not just for geeks

Guest blogger, Chris Pickles, head of industry initiatives, BT, says the Standards Forum was the highlight of the Sibos Toronto 2011...
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Increased risk of fraud with pre-paid cards

Open loop pre-paid cards could potentially be used to launder money, says AML expert.
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What is sufficient anti-money laundering protection?

In the wake of the Financial Services Authority fining private bank Coutts more than £8 million for anti-money laundering failures, Michael...
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