

Hedge Funds - How do they operate?
Weeks ago, I talked to a friend regarding hedge funds. He mentioned that the risk of hedge funds is low as they hedge investors’ money....


Manage Distributed Transactions in Microservices
Due to the lack of ACID transaction property in Microservices, managing data integrity for transactions across a number of Microservices...


Microservices - Architectural Considerations
Digitization drives banks to offer their service in various open platforms through the banking API which is designed in Microservices.


Apache Kafka Use Cases in Banking
In the era of digitalization, real-time streaming data is utmost important to all digital platforms. This article shares several use...


Collateral Risk Framework for Lombard Loan
When it comes to Lombard Loan, Collateral risk always plays a critical role. Banks can either take it from third party's agencies like...


3 Stages of Money Laundering
Although the money laundering process is complex, it could essentially be classified into 3 stages, which are placement, layering and...


Build a Money Laundering Risk Assessment API from Excel (Part 2)
In part 1, we discussed the Money Laundering Risk Assessment Model in Excel and definitions required to convert the Excel into API. In...


Build a Money Laundering Risk Assessment API from Excel (Part 1)
In this article, we are going to show you how to build a Money Laundering Risk Assessment API from Excel. The API can show users the...


KYC - From Framework to API (Part 2)
In Part 2, we will examine the customer identification and due diligence, as well as the approach of turning the KYC from a framework into


KYC - From Framework to API (Part 1)
Part 1 sets out to discuss when we need to conduct KYC and what essential information is required.