Flagging on the road to transparency
With its aim of increasing transparency around execution quality, under the current draft...
Surviving the UK's pension revolution
The D-day for UK pensions has arrived. On April 6th 2015, alongside the usual scramble to capture...
Keeping up with the exchanges – the ETD challenge
Trading volumes in exchange-traded derivatives (ETDs) continue to rise (up 30% from pre-crash volumes)....
Bank Fintech worries are obvious ... solutions are not as clear
I just finished presenting on Digital Bank strategies and Fintech, and was asked a wide range of...
Backdoor Unbundling
I was relaxing on my way home on the 7.02 from Waterloo last night when I came across Nick Goodway’s...
Navigating through the RBI’s Risk Based Supervision Regulation: Challenges and Remedies for Indian banks
The current Risk Based Supervision (RBS) wave in India appears to be rapidly gaining momentum. With the...
‘Pension Freedom Day’ - Sweeping changes tear up the rule book
And so it begins. April 6, 2015 is a day that few in the retirement industry had predicted, as...
Existing systems could play key role in reshaping legacy banks
With no apparent letup in the regulatory and public scrutiny facing Britain’s legacy banks, a new breed...
PSD2: Can banks take the lead in the mobile payments race?
When we consider mobile payments, we often misjudge customers’ willingness to embrace adoption. This is...
Filling the vacuum – alternative administration options in a shrinking market
Against a backdrop of continuous regulatory change, the drive towards lower operating costs, deeper...