The Network Forum (NeFo) held in Warsaw at the end of June is a new event on the conference circuit and the spiritual successor to the Network Management (NeMa) conference of previous years. This is the perfect conference for Taskize, …
Is your corporate identity protected?
Your online activity is of great interest to many people. On the consumer internet, the leading giants such as Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft have figured out how to observe and convert user activity data into their product. Our online …
Taskize for Euroclear Clients
Why Euroclear clients should use Taskize to access Euroclear client services; our founder sets out the reasons you should be using Taskize in preference to email or phone and how this can be achieve quickly at no cost. Taskize is …
Human judgement remains critical in FS operations
Advances in digital technology offer financial services firms multiple opportunities to reengineer processes and enhance customer experience through greater efficiencies. Artificial intelligence (AI) – beginning to revolutionise other industries – is the next wave of technology credited with the potential …
The fourth network
The banking industry is in need of a collective response to a collective challenge. By nature, banks compete with each other for client business through proprietary solutions. But every once in a while, banks need to come together to tackle …
Collaborative technologies can help to refresh long-term relationships
Challenges arise when building a long-term business relationship between two large organisations, due to the number of people, products and processes involved. It is always tempting for staff to focus on short-term wins such as the lowest price or the …
All I want for XMaaS
Any sell-side COO drawing up a Christmas wish list this year is probably doing so more in hope than expectation. Meanwhile, the list of problems currently challenging the operating models of banks and brokers is probably longer than all but …
Back office staff need the tools to function as a well-drilled pit crew
To identify the cause of banks’ rising operating costs, fingers are pointed in many directions. The capital constraints imposed by Basel III and the cost of adapting legacy systems to the increasingly real-time and digital expectations of end-users are often …
Collaboration to minimise post-trade risk
Financial services firms are facing the most significant operational challenges in decades. Transactions must now be processed in a shorter time, with lower fail rates and at higher volumes, and all aspects of trading-related communications need to be recorded, captured …
Innovation on a shoestring
September was the start of budget season, when department heads must make their case for new funds from the central pot. In recent years, costs and revenues have been allocated more assiduously, in line with both capital constraints and regulatory …