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The Tax Operations department of a global investment bank had traditionally relied on a manual system of hard copy filing and spreadsheets to record and store data on its clients’ tax affairs and...
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We worked with a large UK retail bank to interpret the regulatory rules of the SEPA Payment Services Directive (PSD) 2009, and translate these into work streams to deliver process and IT compliant...
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This project was conducted for the Global Transaction Banking (GTB) division of a global bank, who wanted better value for money from IT and a reduced risk of further expensive IT project failures....
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A large UK retail bank needed their Faster Payments solution enhanced to apply compliance checks, to ensure that Payments Originating from Overseas (POOs) were not originating from countries or...
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Over the last couple of weeks the media agenda has been dominated by Payment Services Directive Two (PSD2), and unfortunately not for the right reasons. PSD2 has always been a controversial regulation,...
View ArticleHungary marches towards Instant Payments
The end of 2016 witnessed an excellent step by the Hungarian Central Bank (MNB) – the release of the ‘Operational model of the instant payment service in Hungary’. It is remarkable for 2 simple reasons...
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