Victor Smart

1 week ago | bankingriskandregulation.com | Victor Smart

By Victor Smart Michelle Bowman, the newly confirmed vice-chair for supervision at the Federal Reserve, has pledged a sweeping overhaul of US banking regulation. Her policy blueprint is being hailed by bank lobbyists as a long-overdue reset of oversight. BRR looks at what it means across a range of issues. In ... To continue reading Request Free Trial Unlimited access to all content. Email alerts highlighting key industry insight. Invitations to attend exclusive roundtables and events.

1 week ago | news.wine.co.za | Victor Smart

This was one of the central questions behind a press trip to the Rhine Valley organised by the German Wine Institute for an international party of journalists. Winemakers in the Rheingau, Rheinessen and Pfalz regions believe the answer may lie in a three-pronged approach: low-alcohol products, low-intervention wines and new environment-friendly varieties of grapes. Victor Smart joined the tour to see progress and highlight interesting wines. Good wine sells itself, declares an old German proverb.

1 week ago | bankingriskandregulation.com | Victor Smart

By Victor Smart Banks’ efforts to meet regulatory demands on fraud and cyber attacks are threatened by the payments systems’ “messy” data, say experts. A ranking of 31 leading processing firms by fintech Kani raises questions around data quality. According to an in-depth analysis by ... To continue reading Request Free Trial Unlimited access to all content. Email alerts highlighting key industry insight. Invitations to attend exclusive roundtables and events. Already a subscriber?

2 weeks ago | the-buyer.net | Victor Smart

Good wine sells itself, declares an old German proverb. And, when you have a native variety of the sheer quality of Riesling to work with, that should be enough. Riesling makes geographically expressive and long-lived wines, from sweet to bone dry. But in these days of a dramatic shift in consumer tastes, the Rhine Valley’s winemakers know they need to be canny too. The successful recent drive for quality across the board is one component, certainly. But there’s a need for more lateral thinking too.

3 weeks ago | the-buyer.net | Victor Smart

No one can say that the Penedès Denominació D’Origen lacks profile. It has long been revered as one of Spain’s most celebrated and prolific wine-producing regions after Rioja. It’s also Cava country, making a traditional method sparkling wine that enthusiasts would argue that, in the finest iterations, easily compares with champagne. But one senses that the Catalonian appellation, an hour south of Barcelona, now has different ambitions.