Kazuhiko Adachi, chairman of Intelligent Wave, talks to Dan Barnes about global financial crime, regulatory pressures and how technology can tackle these challenges.

In the tough environment of capital markets, people skills are often forgotten. Bank of America’s capital markets CIO talks to Dan Barnes about the virtues of trust and how his management approach has seen him voted CIO of the Year 2006.

Banks’ change of focus from product orientation to customer orientation is bringing benefits, not least in being able to understand a customer’s value and market the right products. And that is where new technology can help, Dan Barnes reports.

Increasing corporate access to Swift was a key theme at Sibos 2006, where a new model for connectivity was announced, but it was clear that challenges remain. Dan Barnes reports.

Technology has been transformed in the three decades since Swift was launched. Can the network drag itself into the modern era, as its users demand, or is it destined to become a relic of a bygone age? Dan Barnes investigates.

IT is transforming trading and pushing up processing speeds and volumes. The winners will be those who keep up, says Dan Barnes.

Now speed is king on the trading floor, banks must optimise their systems’ engineering – or find themselves left behind. Dan Barnes reports.

Thorough planning and active IT management are behind the smooth running of ABN AMRO’s latest outsourcing deal, chief information officer Lars Gustavsson tells Dan Barnes.

MasterCard’s chief information officer tells Dan Barnes of his healthy state of paranoia, which compels him to keep up to date with developments in the market place.

With fraudsters mounting increasingly sophisticated and co-ordinated online attacks, banks must be constantly prepared for the latest threats. Dan Barnes explains.