Compliance

“From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government…

This article is the first installment in a three part series that covers one of the most critical issues facing the financial industry – Payment Card Fraud. Payment Cards include Credit, ATM & Debit…

According to the US treasury – “Money laundering is the process of making illegally-gained proceeds (i.e. “dirty money”) appear legal (i.e. “clean”). Typically, it involves three steps: placement, layering and…

Big data technologies led by Apache Hadoop can help financial services firms comply with a myriad of regulations, including US Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws and requirements. In 2015, it goes…

Everyday one hears more about how Big Data ecosystem technologies are helping create incremental innovation & disruption in any given industry vertical – be it in exciting new cross industry areas like Internet…

(Image Courtesy – www.theastuteadvisor.com) “Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence-especially in cases in which large short-term debts need to be rolled over continuously-is the key…

This article is the first installment in a four part series that talks about the ongoing digital disruption across financial services. This first post sets the stage for the entire market. Subsequent posts…

It is widely recognized that the series of market events that led to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 was as a result of poor risk management practices in the banking system.…

“The lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change.” – Andy Grove  “Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion…

From a business perspective as well as a technology impact perspective, one of the biggest technical trends facing executives in financial services is big data, with the business value derived…