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The Finanser’s Week: 16th September – 22nd September 2013 (#SIBOS)

Our biggest stories of the past week are … A SWIFT week in Dubai (#Sibos 1) Chris Skinner here. I can’t tell you much about what I’m up to, except that I’m here in the beautiful city of Dubai, jewel of the United Arab Emirates and international hub between the world and the Middle East. How…

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The Finanser’s Week: 16th September – 22nd September 2013 (#SIBOS)

Our biggest stories of the past week are … A SWIFT week in Dubai (#Sibos 1) Chris Skinner here. I can’t tell you much about what I’m up to, except that I’m here in the beautiful city of Dubai, jewel of the United Arab Emirates and international hub between the world and the Middle East. How…

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The Finanser’s Week: 9th September – 15th September 2013

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Bank regulators have got it wrong I just found a fascinating report released by the Policy Exchange earlier this year: Capital Requirements: Gold plate or lead weight?  The report takes a big hit at the Bank of England and Treasury’s approach to the UK Banking Sector…

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The Finanser’s Week: 9th September – 15th September 2013

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Bank regulators have got it wrong I just found a fascinating report released by the Policy Exchange earlier this year: Capital Requirements: Gold plate or lead weight?  The report takes a big hit at the Bank of England and Treasury’s approach to the UK Banking Sector…

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The Finanser’s Week: 2nd September – 8th September 2013

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Using big data to trace money laundering and fraud Talking of interesting surveys, I received another one recently about money laundering. This survey was performed by Veris, who interviewed almost 300 senior Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and compliance executives across 46 countries. Interesting findings: 61% of survey respondents…

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The Finanser’s Week: 2nd September – 8th September 2013

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Using big data to trace money laundering and fraud Talking of interesting surveys, I received another one recently about money laundering. This survey was performed by Veris, who interviewed almost 300 senior Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and compliance executives across 46 countries. Interesting findings: 61% of survey respondents…

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The Finanser’s Week: 26th August – 1st September 2013

Our biggest stories of the past week are … The five greatest risks to banks Banks are considered to be stable, reliant and dull by the world, or that’s what we would like them to be. Instead banks are inherently risk managers, as we have now specifically realised in the past five years. Banks can……

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The Finanser’s Week: 26th August – 1st September 2013

Our biggest stories of the past week are … The five greatest risks to banks Banks are considered to be stable, reliant and dull by the world, or that’s what we would like them to be. Instead banks are inherently risk managers, as we have now specifically realised in the past five years. Banks can……

Invest Northern Ireland

The Finanser’s Week: 19th August – 25th August 2013

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Banks should not be political pawns I received an email on my recent blogs about remittances and Somalia from one reader, Knut Flottorp, and thought it worth posting on the blog to add to the debate. The banks will have problems with Somalia no matter what……

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The Finanser’s Week: 19th August – 25th August 2013

Our biggest stories of the past week are … Banks should not be political pawns I received an email on my recent blogs about remittances and Somalia from one reader, Knut Flottorp, and thought it worth posting on the blog to add to the debate. The banks will have problems with Somalia no matter what……

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