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Crazy little thing called regs

Maybe it’s just me, but looking through the announcements of the three major regulatory changes the new authorities have introduced, I think they’re a bit nuts. On the one hand, they are increasing capital requirements for existing banks to avoid future shocks: Major UK banks must raise a total of £25bn in extra capital by the end…

Crazy little thing called regs

Maybe it’s just me, but looking through the announcements of the three major regulatory changes the new authorities have introduced, I think they’re a bit nuts. On the one hand, they are increasing capital requirements for existing banks to avoid future shocks: Major UK banks must raise a total of £25bn in extra capital by the end…

Running a bank as an IT shop … is the pain worth it?

I was sitting through a vendor presentation … … when a slide popped up titled: industry pain points. It was an interesting slide about the banking industry’s challenges with technology. The slide was divided into four sections, the first of which talked about the challenges of managing technology effectively. The issues here relate to: increasing…

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Running a bank as an IT shop … is the pain worth it?

I was sitting through a vendor presentation … … when a slide popped up titled: industry pain points. It was an interesting slide about the banking industry’s challenges with technology. The slide was divided into four sections, the first of which talked about the challenges of managing technology effectively. The issues here relate to: increasing…

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Are consumers and corporates really that different?

I had a dinner recently where we debated the relevance of real-time in banking. It was intriguing with the retail bankers saying that it is a hygiene factor now to offer real-time as consumers expect and demand it, whilst the corporate bankers were saying that real-time is less relevant for them as customers may want…

Are consumers and corporates really that different?

I had a dinner recently where we debated the relevance of real-time in banking. It was intriguing with the retail bankers saying that it is a hygiene factor now to offer real-time as consumers expect and demand it, whilst the corporate bankers were saying that real-time is less relevant for them as customers may want…

The EU Financial Transaction Tax Directive: An overview

This is a guest post by Financial Services Club speaker Laurens Vis, Managing Director of KAS Bank. The stakes are high. Directive 2008/7/EC, the Council Directive on a common system of Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), is testing the resilience of EU Member States and Markets alike – so far it is turning out to become…

The EU Financial Transaction Tax Directive: An overview

This is a guest post by Financial Services Club speaker Laurens Vis, Managing Director of KAS Bank. The stakes are high. Directive 2008/7/EC, the Council Directive on a common system of Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), is testing the resilience of EU Member States and Markets alike – so far it is turning out to become…

Meet Britain’s Greatest Fraudster

ONLY ONE MAN HAS STOOD AT BOTH THE SUMMIT OF ORGANISED CRIME AND THE PINNACLE OF LOSS PREVENTION … WOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO MEET HIM..? On 18th April, the Financial Services Club will host Britain's Greatest Fraudster, Tony Sales. If you want to meet him, then register. Tony was one of the UK’s most wanted criminals….

Tony Sale

Meet Britain’s Greatest Fraudster

ONLY ONE MAN HAS STOOD AT BOTH THE SUMMIT OF ORGANISED CRIME AND THE PINNACLE OF LOSS PREVENTION … WOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO MEET HIM..? On 18th April, the Financial Services Club will host Britain's Greatest Fraudster, Tony Sales. If you want to meet him, then register. Tony was one of the UK’s most wanted criminals….

Tony Sale

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