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Funds Transfer Pricing and the Quest for Term Funding: Working Towards New Solutions

Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) is emerging as not just a nice to have, helpful tool in managing a financial services business, but in some cases has become a regulatory necessity. FTP, also called Collateral Transfer Pricing in some firms, is the exercise of allocating the cost of liquidity between business units at the same firm. [...]

Payment Processors Looking To Fill Vantiv Void Warned Over DFS Volatility

Payment processors aiming to take Vantiv’s place serving the billion dollar daily fantasy sports (DFS) market have been warned they face a “high risk, volatile and uncertain” legal environment. Vantiv will stop processing payments for DraftKings and FanDuel, the two most popular operators in the sector, on February 29. A series of state and federal [...]

FATF chief talks de-risking dangers and correspondent banking

First part of my interview with the head of the world’s anti-money laundering task force on de-risking, and the fraught relationship between disruptive fintech companies and the banks which handle their accounts. Wholesale de-risking or de-banking, which involves denying accounts to customers deemed high risk, is rapidly becoming a major sector issue and even a [...]

5th Annual Collateral Management Forum – Details

5th Annual Collateral Management Forum 02-03 June 2016 Crowne Plaza Amsterdam City Centre Amsterdam - The Netherlands  “I really appreciate a good diversification of topics and choice of speakers. Also thank you for a  schedule of the event - panels were not too long to lose concentration and breaks were enough to refresh and communicate [...]

4th Annual Retail Banking Forum – Details

4th Annual Retail Banking Forum 2-3 June 2016 Sofitel Budapest Chain Bridge Hotel Budapest - Hungary   “It was an absolute pleasure to attend the Retail Banking Forum. It was all professionally organised and managed and the speakers were varied and interesting.” VP | Barclays – United Kingdom “The event was very nice and [...]

2nd Annual Credit Risk Management Forum – Details

2nd Annual Credit Risk Management Forum 19-20 May 2016 Crowne Plaza Amsterdam City Centre Amsterdam - The Netherlands   “The program was great and the attendance impressive.” - Technical Committee Chair European Payment Institutions Federation Upcoming Events Discover the hot topics From Capital Calculations to Expected Credit Loss [...]

New speaker for 5th Annual HR Minds Forum

We happily announce to have a new speaker joining the 5th HR Minds Forum, who happens to be one of our top speakers from previous HR Minds events: Petra Berecová Senior Vice President Executive Management Deutsche Telekom Germany   Ms. Berecová has been recently promoted and had moved from Slovak Telekom to the headquarters: Deutsche Telekom, which makes [...]

Let’s draw! The importance of the flowchart

Have you ever tried to draw a flowchart? If so, how many times have you done it so accurately reflects the company’s operation? I bet you have done it several times because it isn't easy. Doesn’t matter which software you are using (there a plenty in the market) because by itself won’t tell you how [...]

Feedback from the past Chair

Chair of the 4th HR Minds Forum, Ms. Daiga Ergle, Senior Vice President Human Resources – AirBaltic, Latvia: “Once again, conference was extremely good this time, I hope you pick this message also from the feedback forms. Much better than previous. If you keep developing the same way, the next one will be awesome :-). You've [...]

New speaker for 5th Collateral Management Forum

We have a new speaker, welcome on board: Arturo Labanda Puerta Head of Market Risk Banco Santander – Spain   His topic is the following: Collateral: impact in pricing and risk management  Curve construction under collateral agreements Initial Margin in CCPs: same product but different price Initial Margin with bilateral counter-parties   >>> Go to [...]