Faced with an increasingly vigilant regulatory climate, financial services organisations are having to prepare for the continued growth of data alongside these pressures. Many governments across the...

Rate-fixing scandals, rogue traders and regulatory breaches – these are all potentially devastating threats to the reputation and bottom line of a bank or trading institution. Each on its own is a...

The rapid succession of macro and micro-economic forces unleashed in the aftermath of the global economic crisis have fundamentally changed the face of the financial services industry as we knew it....

Power. We always want it, we waste too much of it and we’re endlessly re-thinking where we get it from. But as in every other major industry, emerging technologies, shifting customer expectations,...

Today’s connected world has seen technical and legislative developments increasingly put pressure on financial organisations to improve their data strategies. The sheer volume of unstructured data...

At the start of the year, Deloitte’s Banking Outlook report predicted that in 2015, banks may finally be at the point of boosting profitability, and stepping out of the turbulence of the...

There is no doubt that big data is one of the major trends in the IT industry that has matured over the last few years. In fact, a study from EMC’s Big Data League - which looked at...

Things have changed a lot since the days of bank robberies by the likes of Bonnie and Clyde. In today’s digital world, bank robbers are often anonymous faces behind a computer screen, and a...

MiFID II is one of several financial industry directives being implemented across Europe at the moment, and all are designed to improve the fairness and transparency of the financial services...

  Today’s banks are investing heavily in digital transformation initiatives to make it more convenient for their customers to access their services, from any place, at any time, in...