Cash management: Third-party provision finally takes off

White labelling and third-party provision have been a perennial red herring in cash management but the credit crunch might finally be the spur to them taking off. By depressing bank revenues and consequently putting pressure on technology budgets – often the first thing to be cut in tough times – banks will simply have to operate differently in order to stay in the market.

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Crunch time is looming not just because of declining revenues. More important is the relentless technological demands of the industry as a result of new regulations such as know-your-customer, anti-money-laundering, Sepa and the EU’s Payment Service Directive, Basle II and Target2 (an interbank payment system for the real-time processing of cross-border transfers).

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