• Assisted a PwC team’s effort to develop recommendations to modernize a large US based custody bank’s core banking and payments platforms (i.e., wire transfer, ACH). During this engagement I assessed payment technology options and helped determine the costs and benefits of various investment scenarios. The client is currently leveraging our deliverables and recommendations to perform an in depth review of a subset of modernization options
• Led 2015 resolution planning for the payment and security operations work streams of a US based custody bank. My team worked directly with the bank’s operations executives and legal team to prepare a highly detailed living will submission to the bank’s regulators. This project delivered an extensive plan which was submitted to the regulators on time
• Acted as a SWIFT subject matter expert for regulatory consulting team that helped a US custody bank determine its OFAC screening requirements for its SWIFT messages. Our team catalogued all of the SWIFT messages used by the bank (e.g., Cash, Securities, FX), reviewed OFAC regulations as they related to the custody bank’s transactions and made OFAC screening recommendations designed to remediate the bank’s regulatory risks. Ultimately our recommendations for improving the bank’s SWIFT message OFAC screens were accepted and implemented by the client
• Led a team that helped a global Wall Street bank modernize its OFAC screening capabilities for incoming SWIFT wire transfer messages initiated
Most new entrants are technology firms of all sizes that are looking revolutionize the banking industry as they revolutionized almost all major industries in the past 15 years. These firms apply concepts such as artificial intelligence and 24/7 connectivity to create innovative ways of performing tailored banking operations at lower cost and with greater convenience for the consumer. Retail banks however have an opportunity to maintain relevancy over the upcoming decade, but in order to do so they must harness technology either through in house innovation or partnerships to accentuate they’re current competitive advantages such as personalized
The Company’s team understands the intrinsic problem and needs in the areas of personal risk management and estate planning, because they have been doing it themselves for more than 15 years. This unique understanding, combined with the team’s technical expertise, have led to the creation of a strong product and a solid company.
Major Considerations Security Internet-enabled business, including online financial transactions, has evolved significantly over the past decade, from blue-sky vision to practical tool and enabler. Despite the recognized progress, security remains a legitimate concern in considering online payments – as much in terms of the transaction and the flow of payment, as in terms of the overall risk profile of a transaction. While PAD is generally focused on retail sales, the company is looking at larger shipments to certain markets, and may face exposures as high as $150,000 in a single deal. Open account Banks across the globe are recognizing that importers and exporters are shifting significant business volumes – in fact, the majority of trade – to open account terms. Some of the financial institutions have interesting offerings in this space, and Palate-Able Delights could benefit from doing business on open
The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OFSI) regulates the Canadian banks; the regulation is in accordance with the Bank Act of 1992 and is regularly updated to find ways to protect the banking system from falling (Lynch, 2010). The top six Canadian banks are tightly linked, and equipped to consolidate if one bank should fall (Lynch,
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) to improve recommendations to support the oversight and instruction of the shadow banking system by mid-2011 in collaboration with other international standard setting bodies. The FSB formed a task force to develop initial recommendations for discussion that would set out potential approaches for monitoring the shadow banking system; and explore possible regulatory measures to address the systemic risk and regulatory arbitrage concerns posed by the shadow banking system.
Currently, venture capital (VC) “funding trends for FinTech and the developments in large categories such as wealth management, blockchain, remittance tech, and insurance tech,” certainly do seem to be in the process of changing the face of payments and the contemporary relationship that the payments industry has with banks.
The FY 2016 operating plan identifies priority objectives across each of the CBS operating units that CBS managers will use in developing individual operating unit plans and risk-focused bank supervisory strategies. While the objectives are similar for Large Bank Supervision and Midsize and Community Bank Supervision, CBS managers will differentiate the size, complexity, and risk
The United Bank is an organization that engages in banking and uses Information Technology to help serve customers from banking firms better. The firm’s headquarter is located in the United State with potential of venturing internationally. The purpose of this Information Technology Strategic Plan is to presents initiatives that the bank must undertake to achieve the continued success and improvement of the Information Technology at the banking sector. This strategic plan involves the uses of SWOT analysis as the centerpiece initiative to achieve the future of this firm using modern technology, such as, cloud computing. The plan will accelerate the future of this firm by automation and streamlining of many of the manual and fragmented processes that the firm is currently using. The results of this analysis are therefore proposed as Information System applications, like, Knowledge Management System Application, Automatic Files and Data Transfer as well as Cloud Computing to help serve customers efficiently and effectively thereby increasing revenue earned. The results of this analysis also generate various policies requirements to be adopted by the bank so as to realize revenue increase from the current $5 million to $20 million per year. The plan therefore, shows how customers in the banking sector can conduct basic banking transactions electronically at their
This report discusses moving from words to action and how Wells Fargo can generate buy in throughout the changes discussed. This report will discuss the option of bringing in a consultant and phase in of proposed changes. Change is ongoing and even after implementation there is a need for review and follow-up. Wells Fargo has begun to make changes which will be reviewed for effectiveness and efficiency throughout the sections of this paper.
USA World Bank is a global major bank with branches located nationwide. Usa World Bank enjoys success in several worldwide ventures as well as a large consumer and small business customer base. Most recently USA World Bank has not achieved much success through their new product roll-outs, which is important in that this success allows them to remain competitive in the marketplace. USA World Bank is feeling the pressure to develop a new product in hopes of keeping their current client base as well as gaining interest and attracting new clients. One of the main issues
The online payment marketplace is experiencing an explosion of innovative ideas, plans, and announcements, which one commentator has likened to a “goat rodeo”, a chaotic situation in which powerful players with different agendas compete with one another for public acceptance, and above all, huge potential revenues. Others liken the payment marketplace to a battle among the four platform titans Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Each of these titans have their own versions of a future payment system that challenges the other players. And let’s not forget PayPal, the reigning power in alternative online payment, or the credit card companies who process over 70% of online payments, or the
The offshore banking institution is regulated in three different ways, through agency, subsidiary, and foreign branches. These kinds of institutions are difficult to regulate because countries cannot impose reserve requirements on its’ own banks’ overseas branches (Grittersova, 15). According to Singer, “regulators enact tighter capital requirements without the explicit intervention of congress. As banks assumed more and more risk, regulators responded by imposing greater capital requirements without the explicit intervention of congress” (Singer, 49). This makes it difficult for the international banking to have restriction on the bank examinations, capital requirements, and assets. Internationally, the safety net main purpose is to establish an international standard that will minimize the power of the regulators and protect the consumers that are within the jurisdiction. Because of the existence of contagion there has been an important institution that has intervened as a disciplined which is the international lender of last resort (189). Overall The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision was composed of the G10 central banks and national bank regulators in where they negotiate international banking standards, according to Fratianni, the G10 is small, homogenous, and rich in intelligence on financial markets with international financial transaction in the world.
IT is additionally changing the way of associations by giving chances to roll out basic improvements in the way they work together. The innovation is evolving quickly, with figuring velocities and the quantity of transistor equivalents accessible in a given territory of a chip both multiplying more or less at regular intervals. Associations are gaining more innovation frameworks to aid in everything from assembling to the administration of data to the procurement and change of client administration. Outfitting and facilitating this registering force is the test. New instruments and creative points of view with which to look at, translate, and understand these quickly developing situations are constantly required and looked for (Beard, 1996).
According to the most recent Federal Reserve study; most of us haven’t set foot in a banking hall in ages. It is a lost battle to banks that opt to use traditional methods to conduct their banking transactions (Gup 2003). By December of last year, close to half of all smartphone users in the United States had transacted some or all of their banking on their phones and iPhones. In the United Kingdom alone, rates of mobile banking transactions doubled over the course of a single year (Scn Education 2001). A banking business that invests in this type of technology gets assured of increasing their customer base.
Each time more, cash payments have decreased and consequently, the rise of Pay Pal company which is offering a secure and fast way of paying online has produced a new situation for this market where Apple Pay has started. Appendix 2 outlines a visual timeline of m-payment technology evolution and the related technology innovations (Lui et al., 2015).