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Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

South State Correspondent

This all compares to about a 40%+ return invested in improving processes (loan, branch, cash management, etc.) In comparison, investments in new technology or new business lines pale in comparison to other strategic investments due to the time and effort it takes to get a business line off the ground.

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Finastra and CloudMargin Collateral Management as a Service offering accelerates compliance with UMR regulation

Bobsguide

Akber Jaffer, EVP, Treasury and Capital Markets Business Unit at Finastra said, “As the deadline for UMR approaches, the need for new and complex calculation methods for initial margin calculation is more important than ever. Our open architecture approach brings together a number of partners and innovators. Global Head of PR.

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Bank IT Spending – Use These Metrics to Improve Performance

South State Correspondent

Benchmarking can help banks better optimize capital as it gives bank management a sense of what the average is for the industry. Banks that want to be more aggressive with innovation and technology can show they are investing more in technology infrastructure, while banks with a strategy to be less tech-focused can be under.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

More recently and by comparison, the mortgage meltdown and subsequent global financial crisis took down more than 500 banks between 2007 and 2014, with total assets of nearly $959 billion. To you, manage your interest rate risk. Before becoming desperate and trading interest rate risk for credit risk.

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J.P.Morgan’s Quorum becomes part of ConsenSys

Lex Sokolin

The venture capital games of embedded finance , open banking, PSD2 and API, all of these revolve around the premise that banks are behind on cloud technology and do not know how to package and deliver financial products to where they matter. As a comparison, we have always needed light, but the technology of light?—?from

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Restaurants Rule, FireEye Flounders And Lending Club Is Back On The List

PYMNTS

So, while seemingly paling in comparison, this week had its fair share of Sizzles — and some interesting Fizzles. Restaurants — the epicenter of payments innovation, it seems — were on the receiving end of a couple of new opportunities this week that could drive even more feet into them and help them grow. Here ya go… SIZZLE.

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Is the Insurance Industry about to change radically?

Tefkin

In markets such as the UK, 56% of consumers declared having used a price comparison website in the last 2 years. It may sound cliché but the Innovator Dilemma effect is playing at full when most of your current revenue base depends on traditional distribution / management methods. Oscar’s partnership with Misfit.