Of Special Interest

• "It's All About the Customer" the theme for the latest IBM/Shillito white paper
• Survey indicates state of ERM development amongst insurers globally
• Capgemini World Insurance Report focuses on the customer experience and emerging distribution channels
• EIOPA launches technical assessment of Solvency II long-term guarantee package
• EIU/BNY Mellon report highlights global issues for insurers
• Report looks at two issues facing insurer CEOs globally
• EIOPA publishes Opinion on Solvency II interim measures
• The Global Insurance Week
• Report reviews priorities for US p&c insurers in 2013
• EIOPA publishes latest financial stability report
• Swiss Re study reviews global market prospects for 2013
• EIOPA exploring possibility of interim stage for Solvency II
• Research indicates rising cost of regulatory cost for UK general insurers
• Accenture global survey indicates insurance equity analysts' expectations and issues
• KPMG suggests a way forward for Solvency II
• Survey indicates insurer progress on Solvency II
• FSA publishes Journey to the FCA paper
• Global Federation of Insurance Associations formed
• EIOPA pushes Barnier on Solvency II timetable clarification
• OFT refers UK motor insurance market for review by Competition Commission
• Solvency II delay now seems inevitable
• Prudential survey indicates changing UK customer choice of advice approach
• Keeping up with regulatory change in UK financial services an increasing overhead
• Men prefer telematics more than women says survey
• HSBC - Gulliver's position untenable?
• Libor, the BBA and Thomson Reuters
• IAIS releases paper on Reinsurance and Financial Stability
• Upcoming financial regulatory structure in UK gets cool reception
• ACORD sponsored survey looks at the growing importance of analytics
• Monitise completes on Clairmail acquisition
• Leading insurer ceos give views on market challenges
• EIOPA publishes final draft guidelines for ORSA
• Bank of China chairman speaks on international expansion
• EIOPA publishes final report on Solvency II reporting but....
• US insurer priorities reviewed in survey
• IAIS releases latest draft for supervision of international insurers
• Crédit Agricole uses ACI for payments system overhaul
• Wake up call for UK commercial insurance sector?
• IBM, Analytics, social media and financial services
• 51% of insurers changing measurement of capital adequacy under Solvency II says survey
• 80% Of Goldman growth will arise from BRIC nations
• EIOPA says majority of European insurers well capitalised but...
• BlackRock forecasts Greek loan writeoff at €30bn
• New UK regulator suggests ending 'free' banking
• Société Générale Bank & Trust live with FRSGlobal
• New UK business finance website
• Europe to lead on telematics says report
• Spanish bank plan
• Significance of the JPM trading losses
• Geneva Association reports on global ageing issues and the role of insurance
• Report highlights action being taken by UK insurers in readiness for Solvency II
• UK personal lines insurers provide poor online user experience says survey
• OCBC ranked strongest bank in world - again
• European insurers must move from risk measurement to real risk management to achieve a return on Solvency II investment says report
• Solvency II survey indicates UK insurers have still much to do-majority say start date will be delayed
• WiproTechnologies-on the global insurance stage
• JPM prepaid card bank account a trend-setter
• Estimate of additional Spanish bank capital needed
• First US approval for Chinese bank purchase
• Accenture and Duck Creek solutions together add value
• UBS clients use iPad to design trading algorithms
• Engagement Banking
• US ExPats giving up nationality to save tax
• PayTag turns any mobile into contactless pay device
• CHARGE Anywhere NFC card acceptance via BlackBerry
• SAS-helping insurers to understand their business
• SWIFT launches Sanctions Screening
• Study predicts telematics take off in UK
• SWIFT guide on moving to Sepa
• Monitise buys Clairmail
• QlikTech-placing agile analytics in the hands of the business user
• BRIC countries boost bank business lending - G8 lowers it
• The Met Office says Atlantic hurricane fluctuations connected to industrial air pollution
• PayPal phone to card acceptance device converter
• Pingit P2P now open to customers of all UK banks
• Telematics statistics indicate further good news
• SAS launches Visual Analytics
• IBM / Citigroup deal to use IBM Watson
• Telematics growing in interest in UK amongst consumers says survey
• BTG Pactual listing will be one of largest
• Most of UK life insurers sheltered from eurozone sovereign debt crisis says Fitch
• Global insurer IT spend to increase after decline says report
• Geneva Association reviews catastrophic year and looks forward
• Solvency II goes too far says survey
• Predictive analytics at heart of SAS updated AML tool
• Policy administration modernisation is next priority says survey
• HDFC mobile banking with Monitise and Visa
• Insurers falling behind other sectors in customer service says survey
• Western Union payment deals with 26 mobile wallet providers
• Global ceo survey indicates key reasons for growth being held back
• HSBC to exit Japan retail
• Vodafone - Visa announce global mobile wallet
• More on Telefónica and MasterCard LatAm JV
• BBVA-Google first combined forecasts
• SEPA payments date set as 1st February 2014
• Gibraltar plan to attract more funds
• EIOPA issues 2012 Action Plan for Colleges of Supervisors
• Glory ATM manufacturer buys Talaris
• Insurers could look towards alternative asset classes because of Solvency II says survey
• European regulator warns politicians on Solvency II potential delay
• UK insurers need to place more emphasis on product features says report
• US Bank bail out in disguise?
• US issues millionth EMV Visa card
• Citigroup to end mortgage brokerage intros
• US Bancorp $440m renewable investment
• Difficult decisions ahead for European insurers says Ernst & Young report
• The MGAA-providing timely support for UK underwriting agencies
• 2012 US Auto Claims Satisfaction study published
• Local support for Thailand Catastrophe Fund plan
• US Prosecutors charge Wegelin with assisting tax evasion
• Digital cash for the digital wallet
• Eric Daniels to join StormHarbour
• SunTrust acquires FirstAgain for loan platform
• S&P maintains stable outlook on reinsurance market
• FIS announces POS mobile wallet
• Credit Agricole opens app store
• Half of Visa Europe transactions on mobile by 2020
• BBVA and Google try to improve forecasting for clients
• Deloitte publishes 2012 Global Insurance Outlook report
• BBVA goes to the Google Cloud
• Geneva Association reviews three key issues for the global insurance industry
• Treasury Committee motor insurance report creates comment
• World Economic Forum Global Risks 2012 report published
• IBM Joins Bank Information Architecture Network
• No delay on Basel III liquidity - peer review introduced
• Further delay over Solvency II
• Itaú Unibanco Latin America expansion
• Reawakening ATM standard cassette initiative
• EIOPA issues financial stability report
• Ernst & Young outlines five success strategies for US p&c insurers
• IBM 10 year infrastructure deal with La Caixa
• Only 20% of actuaries and insurance finance managers completely confident in data control processes and spreadsheets says research
• Fitch predicts future trend for US broker market
• Swiss Re reviews emerging markets
• SocGen CIB exec team changes
• RBS investment banking downsizing
• Nigeria limits cash usage to boost Mpayments
• eBay acquires German BillSAFE
• Nigerian mobile money licences
• IBM help for Kenyan banking
• BNP Paribas and IBM extend infrastructure JV
• Monitise and FIS strategic partnership
• PayPal Swedish contactless POS trial
• PayPal to join discount coupon bandwagon
• Morgan Stanley $1.8bn writedown
• State Street exits UK & German bonds
• Swiss Re sigma study reviews catastrophe costs
• Aon Benfield publishes report on China p&c and reinsurance market
• US life industry faces challenges says report
• NBNK may bid for Yorkshire & Clydesdale
• Swiss Re predicts bluer skies from 2013
• Long term investment move away from Equities
• MoneyGram / ICBC remittance deal
• Algorithmics reporting for wealth management
• Western Union starts UK prepaid services
• Launch of Western Union Small Business Payments
• LIMRA reviews US consumer life insurance buying trends
• A.M.Best stress tests insurers exposure to eurozone debt
• 4 bids possible for RBS Aviation
• Takefuji restructure plan in doubt
• Raiffeisen told to consider dual-listing
• Hedge fund chief backs Financial Transaction Tax
• PayPal 6 fold increase in mobile payments over Thanksgiving
• Women are greater online fraud risk claim
• Sovereign bonds revised capital risk charges unlikely to be incorporated in Solvency II in near term says Fitch
• Survey indicates major issues for London Market players
• Deutsche Bank Asset Management part sale?
• Social media central to SunGards mobile platform
• Google Wallet boost from Checkout
• Defaqto survey indicates vital role of financial advisers
• Global survey reveals insurers could improve services to customers
• S & P highlights regulatory change for UK life insurers presents challenges but there are long term opportunities
• Deutsche Borse / NYSE derivatives proposal
• Swiss / US comprehensive tax treaty
• Buffet sees value in financial services stock prices
• New UBS CEO halves investment banking - sets financial targets
• Visa Digital wallet branded V.Me
• Social Media to inpact insurance market says report
• Credit Agricole / Visa microSD NFC contactless payment
• IBM offers mobile device security
• MasterCard and Intel online & NFC security alliance
• Barclays insurance deals with Aviva and Legal & General
• PayPal Android App includes NFC P2P
• Volcker rule too complicated
• Only 48% of UK and US consumers trust their insurance provider says survey
• Guy Carpenter reviews Asia Pacific catastrophe scenario
• Dodd Frank cheat sheet
• simplytap - mobile purchase by entering just 2 codes
• BoA to sell more of China Construction stake?
• Lloyds Banking appoints acting CEO serving notice period
• SocGen creating UK online bank using Selftrade
• Total loss customer satisfaction lower says US auto insurance study
• FIS to process Discover network cards
• Barclays profits YTD UP on corporate and DVA
• Visa Europe and FIS take stake in Monitise
• Alfa Bank offers first contactless payments in Russia
• Banks and the Euro crisis deal
• IBM Security division formed
• CommBank Kaching multi-payment mobile app
• Norton Rose reviews financial institutions globally
• Fiserv unified wealth platform available
• British Arab Commercial deploys IBM risk analytics
• US Card issuers pile back into sub-prime
• CEA opposes US bills relating to taxing of foreign insurers
• RDT spreads its wings
• Google wallet open for all banks
• Equifax to Offer First Data Confidence Score Solution
• Misys launches market Risk Solution
• JPMorgan Q3 profit down a little
• TSYS renews outsourcing deal with Capital One
• Fitch reviews UK life sector
• Mobile banking software ranked
• UK websites compared for speed and how it affects purchase
• More Brits use online banking than use Facebook or Tweet
• Tesco confirm core banking system problems
• SMFG unit moves systems development to Ireland
• Global IPO value down 46% on year ago
• SMBC tender for Promise
• The mobile wallet reaches Papua New Guinea
• NBNK only bidder to meet deadline for Lloyds branches
• Fiserv launches bank risk analysis tool
• Fusion-io speeds up Deutsche credit risk calculation
• European epayment rules anti-competitive investigation
• Capital One social gaming spend
• MUFG electronic management of syndicated Loans
• Google Wallet live in US
• Laying down the rules for Volcker
• UBS rogue trading - story so far
• John Mack retires at year end from Morgan Stanley
• Mobile payments may exceed 15bn in 2013
• Future of UK retail banking final report
• Monitise virtual card anti-fraud offering
• Egypts first major M&A deal since revolution
• BoA in syndicate to fund solar power for military dwellings
• Bank of America executive changes
• NBNK confirms talks - shares suspended
• Insurers to spend more on IT says research
• NBNK to buy Lloyds branches, Clydesdale & Yorkshire banks?
• LSE to buy LCH.Clearnet?
• SunGard completes on FINACE
• BNY Mellon replaces CEO
• RBS strategic relationship with Monitise
• IBM to Acquire Algorithmics
• IBM 10 banking deals within CEE region
• Dexia may struggle without state aid
• ICBC profits continue to rise
• CFS negligible profit UK Co-op bank loss
• Monitise granted Nigerian Mobile Payment licence
• Accenture buys US Mortgage processor
• Banks must work harder to attract 'Facebook Generation'
• Banks borrowed $1.2tr of secret US federal funds
• HSBC T&B bidding for parts of WestLB
• Rethinking of US infrastructure bank
• India Post-bank soon?
• RBS bigger loss - underlying progress
• Swiss / German withholding tax - template for future?
• NCR Bill Pay Kiosks
• Visa to chip its cards in the US
• Useful stats on the UK smartphone market
• Elavon to accept China Unionpay cards
• IBM & Security First in Cloud Security venture
• HSBC - expense cuts not straight to the bottom line
• Moody's AAA for Footballer Ronaldo as collateral
• Hugh Osmond is 3rd bidder for Lloyds branches
• Berchtold & Meister to head Credit Suisse Private Banking
• TStone & Flowers joint bid for Woori?
• UK banks retail market share
• New CEOs and Chairman at Deutsche Bank
• Rothschild investing Chinese funds in other countries
• VITAband wristband - the future of contactless payment?
• Citi gains as loan losses fall
• The lesson from the European stress test.
• Citi may keep store card unit
• JPMorgan profits boosted loan loss reductions and Investment banking
• Friday night is European stress test result night
• Banking Industry Architecture Network grows
• Business & law enforcement form new anti-Cybercrime org.
• PayPal buys Zong
• IBM to provide Garanti Bankasi with new servers
• Deutsche Borse invests in FX technology derivatives co
• New IBM white paper on client centricity and reducing risk
• Stay Agile and Stand Out in Changing Insurance Markets
• UK Airlines surcharge for debit card banned - overall ban may follow
• Fed generous to card issuers on Durbin cap
• HSBC cost cutting promises underwhelming
• Major systems issues reported at ANZ
• The Global Week
• Oracle BI for iPad and iPhone
• IBM on systemic risk
• Google, Citi, MasterCard, First Data mobile wallet
• HSBC Q1 pre-tax down 14.1%
• US tornadoes could cost insurers up to $5bn
• HSBC should sell US retail business & Ping An stake
• UK banks agree to settle PPI claims
• PPI charge creates Lloyds Banking pre-tax £3.5bn LOSS
• Beyond Compliance: Differentiating through Solvency II technology investments
• European banks said to have 1.3tr Euro of non-core assets
• UK consultation on the covered bond market
• UK Banking reform report significant
• Towers Watson reports on Solvency II survey across insurers operating in UK
• Horta-Osorio determined to conclude Lloyds branches sale this year