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Loan ranger
Peer-to-peer lending website Zopa provides a platform to bring lenders and borrowers together, bypassing the banks. Five years after its emergence, CEO and co-founder Giles Andrews says the public’s distrust of the greedy banks has been a boon for his business.

Compliance rules
BM speaks with Markus Schulz, Chief Compliance Officer at Zurich, about the challenges of a tighter, post-crisis regulatory regime.

Rule the world
The spectacular failures of the past few years have added new momentum to calls for global banking reform. But is a universal regulatory framework feasible and, if so, what would it mean for the industry?

Simply accountable
Prudential CISO Tom Doughty has alternative view of security measures. He believes that by crediting employees with the ability to make informed decisions, the overall security of the company can be maintained.

Out of the ashes
We all knew that Iceland’s economy had gone up in smoke, but nobody expected one of its volcanoes to follow suit. Eyjafjallajokull’s eruption caused chaos and disruption to industries all over the world and raised serious questions about many organisations’ ability to cope with disaster. Rebecca Goozee takes a look at a major wake up call for business continuity and communications...