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Customer Risk Assessment

Last week the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) published a report on findings into it’s Anti-Money Laundering examination of Trust Company Business in Jersey.  Under its regulations the JFSC requires Trust Companies to prepare business risk and assessment strategies for all... more »

What Know Your Customer (KYC) is really about

One of the main items I’ve been working on this year is a regulatory compliance project based around the ability to Know Your Customer (KYC).  In order to try to reduce fraud and risk, banks and other financial institutions have a requirement to keep up to date records of documents which... more »

TSQL tip – Avoid Increasing Row Counts in Aggregate Joins

A typical function required of many data warehouses is the ability to do currency conversions. This is especially true in the Finance industry where you will probably have accounts in multiple currencies, but for reporting purposes you will probably want to be able to view them in a single... more »

Achieve Business Intelligence Project Success with Executive Sponsorship

At any given time, dozens of project teams will be fighting for recognition, the enterprise's budget dollars, and wide-spread user adoption. Having an executive on the Business Intelligence (BI) implementation team will ensure that the project is not stalled, under-funded, or ignored by the... more »

Changed priorities for the 2010 CFO – Business Intelligence moves to top of the agenda

IBM have just released their 2010 study of over 1,900 Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and senior finance executives from across the globe and the verdict is that “Cost reduction matters to today's CFO, but not as much as getting stuck in to wider corporate business decisions. Playing their... more »

To Dashboard or Scorecard, that Is the Question

Both dashboards and scorecards are mechanisms for visually representing complex enterprise data which provides insight into business performance. The data types include summaries of key performance indicators (e.g. sales data) and other measures of business performance (e.g. number of customer... more »