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Innovation in Financial Services

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

Navin Rammohan

Navin Rammohan Principal Manager - Marketing at Infosys Technologies Ltd.

Schools and Banks: What's Common?

As a father of a 6 year old and someone who has a keen interest in alternate models of education, I’ve been fascinated by some of the talks by Sir Ken Robinson on creativity and education reforms. Some of his observations about the current schooling system have a strong parallel in the way the banking system was and is being governed. Structure &a...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Transmeri, Demos, Real Time Economy Program,MyData

What did you read?

I posted the list below on 30.12.2010 and checked growth in selected page views today (3.1.2011) On EU: Questions European Tax Payers should ask: now 6516 views + 36! https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2815 A digital Single Market – why and how?: now 2081 + 26, https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=4497 T...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Transmeri, Demos, Real Time Economy Program,MyData

What did I write?

Looking back – some of the most viewed posts: On EU: Questions European Tax Payers should ask: https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2815 A digital Single Market – why and how?: https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=4497 The future of Direct Debit – e-invoicing with standing order: https://www.finextra.com/blogs/full...

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

A Start-up Boom for the Finance Sector?

In 2010 we had a bunch of innovative ideas become mainstream and start to impact the banking arena (for a full coverage see my post in Huffington.) However, 2011 promises to be more disruptive because as the economy finally starts to warm up, we'll be seeing a lot of new private equity investment into start-ups in the finance arena. A new dot com ...

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Uri Rivner

Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence

ZeusiLeaks Archives File 001: The ex-Agent

OK folks, quick recap: if you think WikiLeaks is the largest leak of data the world has seen, think again. In fact, think two orders of magnitude bigger. Who needs a quarter of a million diplomatic cables, when we have the Zeus Trojan, most popular crimeware in the universe, sitting on millions of personal, corporate and government PCs stealing da...

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

The Top 14 innovations in the banking arena for 2010

2010 was a bumper year for innovations in the retail banking and payments space. Below are some of the top innovations this year. Let me know how you rank these in respect to their ability to be real game changers for the banking arena. Which innovations do you think will survive on, and which will flame out? My big bet for 2011 is NFC (Near-Field

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Retired Member 

The role of technology in banking innovation

Ask a dozen bankers about the relationship between technology and innovation, and the answer will either be ‘inseparable friendship’ or ‘uneasy truce’.... or something to that effect. I have observed, and research confirms, that this polarised viewpoint is linked to market maturity. Almost without exception, banks around the world agree that IT is...

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Retired Member 

Basel III: Trust the rules

Basel III is setting the precedence for re-establishing the rules, as a result of the fall out of the financial market post-2008. The key aspects – tighter rules for tier-one capital, higher ratios of tier-one capital in relation to risk-weighted assets, new borrowing ratio relative to tier-one capital, new liquidity provisions, and measures to ...

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Is Basel III bad for finance?

The Basel III accord’s stated purpose is: This consultative document presents the Basel Committee's proposals to strengthen global capital and liquidity regulations with the goal of promoting a more resilient banking sector. The objective of the Basel Committee's reform package is to improve the banking sector's ability to absorb shocks arising fr...

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EC's 16 actions towards massive e-invoicing adoption

In 2020 e-invoicing has to be the predominant method of invoicing in Europe, according to European Commission. In its Communication ‘Reaping the benefits of electronic invoicing for Europe’ and in its Decision ‘Setting up the European Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Electronic Invoicing’, the EC sets out several actions to reach its 2020 vision. Unde

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