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Category: Banking
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Personal mobile devices have grown to be a nuisance and a huge security risk on trading floors and other restricted areas. In the financial sector, personal mobile device surveillance is often overlooked in favour of soft policies to achieve regulatory compliance and data security. However, these aren’t enough to prevent material, non-public information breaches and…
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The monitoring of personal mobile devices is carried out through “soft policies” which are based on trust rather than compliance. These are simply ineffective, especially now with traders returning to offices and revised layouts to account for social distancing. This provides a greater challenge for supervisors/spotters to identify breaches. With home working continuing for the…
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“The world is speeding up and data-driven automation is paramount to staying on top. The pandemic caught many organisations flat-footed,” says Turner. “Those with traditional systems, workflows and analytical modelling weren’t able to respond quick enough.”
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Change requires more market liberalisation, less military involvement in the country’s economy and to widen participation in political affairs while giving the private sector a more central role than it has in the Egyptian economy. Such reforms could prove positive by reducing social unrest, attracting foreign direct investment, bolstering its currency and filling its foreign…
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David Trossell, CEO of global data acceleration company Bridgeworks, says that ‘it doesn’t matter where in the world we work with customers; they all have the same problem: latency. In Africa, distances are vast between centres – places such as Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. They are no different to our customers in Los Angeles,…
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WAN data acceleration, also known as WAN Acceleration, is the only way to mitigate the effects of latency and packet loss in any meaningful way. Traditionally, the answer has been to move data centres or disaster recovery sites closer to each other to reduce latency. However, if they are within the same circles of disruption…
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…the implementation of RPA is making organizations aware of bad processes. Yet with the drive to deliver efficiency and cost-savings, Carden says: “People are looking at processes and thinking how they can automate them to improve the customer experience. They thought that RPA would buy them time, allowing them to push back digitizing the processes.…
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Dr Stephen Castell, an independent FinTech consultant, admits that there are few innocent investor protections to fall back on: “This is essentially the case worldwide today, and it looks like it will continue that way for the foreseeable future.” He reminds us that there is a need to keep everything in perspective, suggesting that “the…
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Geoff Tunbridge – Director Solution Consulting for APAC at ACI Worldwide, talked about real-time payments. He discussed the state of play, the lessons that have been learnt and how to make money from real-time payments. He warned that having a real-time payments scheme doesn’t automatically translate into instant success. Clear use cases are essential, with…