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Mobile analytics adoption on the rise but remain hampered in developing countries
Date: Jul 25, 2012
Author: Levina Lim
Categories: Data & Analytics, Data Management, Mobile Banking, Payments, Retail Banking, Transaction Banking
Keywords: Mobile Analytics, Mobile Payments, Mobile Marketing, mobiThinking, Google Analytics, BNP Paribas, Barclays, BPI, HSBC, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Citibank
Banks, financial technology vendors and telcos are realising the potential of the mobile channel, as developments in the mobile banking scene intensify.
Interview transcript: Randolph Koppa, President, Trade and Development Bank, Part 1
Date: Jul 18, 2012
Author: Randolph Koppa
Categories: Branch Banking, Retail Banking
Keywords: Mongolia, Randolph Koppa, Trade and Development Bank, Bank of America, Continental Bank, US Bank, ING Bank, Duna Bank, Citibank, Corporate Finance
Randolph Koppa, president of Trade and Development Bank discusses the early days of his international banking career, his return to Asia and coming to Mongolia.
Barclays and LIBOR – is operational risk management relevant?
Date: Jul 02, 2012
Author: David Millar
Categories: Capital & Strategic Issues, Operational Risk Management, Regulation, Risk and Regulation
Keywords: Barclays, LIBOR, British Bankers’ Association, BCBS, Basel III, RBS, UBS, Citibank, Bank of America
David Millar, risk consultant, trainer and former COO at global risk management association, PRMIA, discusses the Barclays-LIBOR rigging case, the bank’s survival chances, and whether ORM could have impacted the case.
Derivatives regulations may marginalise Asian banks
Satyajit Das, derivatives expert and the author of Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk, feels that CCPs may not offer a complete solution in terms of regulating OTC derivative markets.
Advances in banking technology driving change
Date: May 16, 2012
Author: Carol Wheatcroft
Categories: Channels, Core Banking, Customer Centricity, Data & Analytics, Data Management, Innovation, Technology & Operations
Keywords: Security and Risk, Big Data, Customer Experience, Microsoft, Verint, OCBC, Ping An Bank, Oracle, Kasikornbank, Sybase, ANZ, Dhanlaxmi Bank, Allianz Bank, ING Bank
Proceedings report for the Technology and Innovation Conference at The Asian Banker Summit 2012 held on April 26 and 27, 2012, on the challenges and issues banks face in their efforts to adopt the latest technologies.
Standard Chartered’s technology focus in China: advantages of foreign banks in the market
Date: May 16, 2012
Author: Baron Laudermilk
Categories: Channels, China, Core Banking, Customer Centricity, Innovation, Technology & Operations
Keywords: Ericson Chan, Standard Chartered Bank China, SAS, SAP, Oracle, IBM, PBOC, State Administration for Foreign Exchange, China Banking Regulatory Commission
Ericson Chan, chief information officer of Standard Chartered Bank China believes that foreign banks have key advantages over Chinese banks, but regulations and shifting rules make it difficult for foreign banks to stay ahead.
Visa dumps Global Payments over breach affecting 1.5 million cards
Date: Apr 16, 2012
Author: Lalitha Sivanesan
Categories: Data & Analytics, Data Management, Operational Risk & Security, Retail Banking, Risk and Regulation
Keywords: Global Payments, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Financial, Data Breach
Visa removes payment processor from list of approved service providers but still may stand a chance of reinstatement.
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