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By Karolina Łukaszczuk 29/11/2022Insights, Practice - Strategy, PracticesNo Comments

Employee Attrition is a new pandemic? According to multiple sources, 2021 saw a significant increase in voluntary staff turnover. Nearly 50% of respondents to a payscale.com survey, for example, reported…

Improving customer experience and enhancing business through efficient Customer Onboarding

By Karolina Łukaszczuk 22/09/2022Customer Onboarding, InsightsNo Comments

Customer onboarding – the need The customer onboarding process is the first touch point through which a prospective customer forms impressions about an organization. Today the major challenge financial services firms face is…

XVA ‘Mainstream Thinking’ – CVA/DVA/FVA + ColVA

By Karolina Łukaszczuk 20/09/2022Insights, SA CVA / XVANo Comments

xVA The multitude of costs and risks faced by banks in their OTC derivatives trading operations – outside the typical risks of a Trading Book - have led to the adoption…

ISO 20022: The transformation from SWIFT MT to MX message formats

By Karolina Łukaszczuk 13/09/2022Insights, ISO 20022No Comments

ISO 20022 was published in 2014 and is a global standard for financial messaging that provides a standard model across business domains such as payments, securities, trade services, card services,…

Wealth Management: Enhancing the Investment Advisor toolbox to better meet Investor needs

By Karolina Łukaszczuk 13/09/2022Insights, Wealth ManagementNo Comments

Wealth Management firms are facing challenges in providing the right set of information about their clients and about product & market details to their Relationship Managers which is impacting the…

USD Transition to T+1 Settlement: Allocations and Documentation

By Karolina Łukaszczuk 13/09/2022Insights, USD T+1No Comments

Summary The long awaited move to USD T+1 settlements is expected to be approved in Q3 2022, with a target implementation date of Q3 2024, so now is an opportune…

USD Transition to T+1 Settlement: Overview

By Karolina Łukaszczuk 13/09/2022Insights, USD T+1No Comments

Summary When stock exchanges were first established, the typical trade settlement period was 14 days. It wasn’t until the 1970s that required settlement times began shrinking, first dropping to 7…

The Process for Optimisation – Banking

By Christian Cator 21/08/2022Articles, Banking, Digital, Insights, Practice - Risk & RegulationNo Comments

Where compression seeks to offset economically similar trades to reduce notional, optimisation seeks to free up committed margin and capital by placing a series of market risk-neutral trades.

An Analysis on the Different Capital Constraints Faced by Banks

By Christian Cator 21/08/2022Articles, Banking, Digital, Insights, Practice - Risk & RegulationNo Comments

A more sophisticated methodology has been introduced for calculating capital requirements with the aim of better capturing systemic risk; the downside being an increased regulatory burden on the banking system.

The Rise of Biometric Security in Banking

By Christian Cator 21/08/2022Articles, Banking, Digital, Insights, TechnologyNo Comments

Inspired by use in the tech industry, financial firms are embracing biometrics as a way of improving banking security.