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Want to make sure that your new tech product ends up in the bin? Our first tip is: Focus on the wrong problem Try getting your team to focus on the easiest issue to solve, or maybe one related to a recent tech fad. DON'T let anyone talk to real life breathing users - otherwise they may discover the real gnarly problems holding the business back. For more tips on how to sabotage a tech project, read our full blog here: https://lnkd.in/euRfpPhd For the full Simpsons monorail song, go here: https://lnkd.in/eRKUbmGg #innovation #markets #technology

What will Risk management feel like in Capital Markets in the future? Swipe right to see our top 5 features Read the full blog here: https://lnkd.in/ea6akuEe #risk #innovation #markets

Can we actually do this large transaction? Will this one blow our country limit? Does this structured deal take us towards our target position or not? Our risk feature of the future #5: Traders will instantly see the impact of a potential trade on their book, helping them price it more effectively and helping them to take bolder decisions based on more precise data. Read our full blog on the future of Risk: https://lnkd.in/eTJggZm7 #riskmanagement #innovation #capitalmarkets

What's our risk to Greece? Do you want the full answer, or just the easy bit? Our risk feature of the future #4: Risk tools will provide answers that cut across all risk types, and all business areas. For example, if they want to search for their risk to Greece, they will be able to see Greek credit exposures and counterparty risks along side the market risk associated with Greece. Read our full blog on the future of Risk: https://lnkd.in/eTJggZm7 #riskmanagement #innovation #capitalmarkets

"Hedge this" "Axe that" Our risk feature of the future #3: Risk apps will go beyond identifying impending doom and start recommending how to avert them Read our full blog on the future of Risk: https://lnkd.in/eTJggZm7 #riskmanagement #innovation #capitalmarkets

Why do corporate banking experiences lag so far behind retail? We interviewed 100 people who have the pleasure of making corporate payments every day. Here are their top 5 frustrations (and ideas for how to address them) #innovation #payments #notapostaboutai

No more pasting data screenshots into chat channels and powerpoints. Our risk management feature of the future #2: All of the conversation between risk managers and traders will live in the same system as the risk data itself. People will be able to publish their risk concerns and predictions to colleagues through blog posts attached to data points in twitter-style updates, bringing everything together in one place Read our full blog on The Future of Risk Management here https://lnkd.in/eTJggZm7 #riskmanagement #innovation #capitalmarkets

Throwback to the lessons learnt on last year's Norman management sailing trip: 1. Don’t try to land a brand new drone on a moving sailing boat. 2. If you forget point 1 and need to rescue a drone from the seabed 10m underwater you’ll need: - 1 x rope - to fashion a net - 1 x heavy object (e.g. a hammer) to weigh down said net - 1 x 10m long pole - which may comprise lots of poles tied together - to create a pincer movement with the net - 5 x hours - 6 x people - alternating between net dragger, pole pincer and underwater cheerleaders Καλό καλοκαίρι σε όλους #markets #innovation #paros

The emerging risk disaster of the year is right there in front of you... it's just surrounded by 10,000 other data points in your sea of risk grids. Good luck spotting it. Our Future risk feature #1: Risk tools will highlight the hot risk topics instead of serving up vast appendixes of data As Jonathan Corbett writes in our latest blog on the future of risk management, "Smart risk tools will generate risk stories which pinpoint the key risks across the estate. Traders and risk managers will spend less time scouring the data universe for issues and more time thinking about how to resolve them." Read our full blog on The Future of Risk Management here https://lnkd.in/eTJggZm7 #riskmanagement #innovation #capitalmarkets

What will the future of risk management feel like in large banks? Here are our top 5 features of the future, based on 60 interviews with Risk Managers. #capitalmarkets #innovation #risk