Innovation in Financial Services

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Group founded 12 Nov 2007
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A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.

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Liquidity on tap !

An advertisement by a mutual fund company stated "investments are for when you need them". Settlement cycles are reducing on stock exchanges across the globe. Money movements for trade sett

06 Jul 2010
Rik Coeckelbergs

When Will Payments Innovations Become too Hard to Follow?

This is a question I am thinking of for some period now. Innovation in payments is made for the customer... most at least! But it is all going so fast, that I wonder how long the Industry will be able...

03 Jul 2010
Bo Harald

Equal treatment will make e-invoicing easier

COUNCIL DIRECTIVE amending Directive 2006/112/EC on the common system of value added tax as regards the rules on invoicing Snippets – emphasis mine: “(8) Since the use of electronic invoicing can hel...

02 Jul 2010
Bo Harald

B2b e-invoicing transactions growing fast

This case (e-invoices received by SMEs) represents quite well the market trend in Finland. The trend on the e-invoices-sent-by-SMEs has been steeper and the volumes much higher as so many invoice rece...

02 Jul 2010
Bo Harald

Sweden, Denmark,USA,Finland..

Leaders in the Economist digital economy ranking. The survey appears to be very thorough - but I would put more weight on productivity improving innovations starting from the highest and massive volum...

01 Jul 2010
Brett King

Branch Networks: Where do we go from here - Part 2

In my recent blog on branches I got some reader feedback that leads me to believe that some have interpreted my positive slant on the effectiveness of direct channels as evidence that I am 'against' b...

30 Jun 2010
Retired Member

Strategy No. 4: Agility for the long running bank.

It’s simple. Winning a race means “getting there first”. The same rule applies to banking, with a small corollary, which is that the most agile (and not necessarily the fastest) usually wins. Is ther...

29 Jun 2010
Brett King

Branch Networks: Where do we go from here?

I’ve spent the better part of the last three months meeting and talking to some of the best and brightest bankers in Australia, Asia, UK and the USA and what I’ve learned is fairly predictable, and ju...

28 Jun 2010
Bo Harald

The future of VAT - automatic and real time

http://boharald.blogspot.com/2010/06/future-of-vat-automatically-real-time.html We all know that today’s VAT reporting and payment process is mildly speaking cumbersome and expensive for 24 million en...

24 Jun 2010
Bo Harald

How to fight online card fraud - so obvious

http://boharald.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-to-solve-online-card-fraud.html Excellent YouTube presentation by Douwe Lycklama of Innopay.

24 Jun 2010
John Cant

The Writing is Not on the Wall, digital signage in finance

I have a bit of a soft spot for technology. So I was interested to find out more recently about some of the smart technology that is behind the eye catching video advertising screens that are popping

21 Jun 2010
Retired Member

Interview of Nick Ogden -Voice Commerce, last part

Here's the last part ! Enjoy ! Bruno Joanides (BJ) : Do you plan to extend your activities to other countries? What is your strategy about this? Nick Ogden (NO) : Yes our network already covers 50 co...

21 Jun 2010

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