Mark Loosmore: Coping with regulatory compliance costs

Hiding in plain sight

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Mark Loosmore picks out six areas where having the right technology solutions in place will help businesses meet upcoming regulatory requirements such as MiFID II and GDPR - and do so cost-effectively

Before reading any further, let's conduct a quick experiment. Click on this Youtube video - don't worry, it's nothing to upset your firewalls - and then do as you're asked. Done it? No? How about now? Oh, go on - give it a go … All right - if you won't, you won't. So instead - imagine you're asked to watch a short video in which six people pass a basketball back and forth among themselves. While you watch, you're told to keep a count of the number of passes made by the people in white shirts. At some point, a man in a gorilla costume strolls into the middle of the actio...

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