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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.

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Why the lip service to innovation?

I am seeking an answer to a question that’s been bothering me – why does banks’ interest in innovation not translate into intent that is as strong as the interest itself? The latest in a series of our studies on innovation shows near unanimous agreement on the importance of innovation among banks across the globe. Nearly 80% of 72 West European ba...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Look into this Treasure Chest

We have been working some time on opening the lid to a true European Treasure Chest. The lid is migration to structured business messages – and the key – e-invoicing - is held by every enterprise and consumer (or rather human user in employee and private role). As often happens in innovation processes the real value of what can be achieved opens...

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Are investment banks trailing behind the tablet bandwagon?

From commuters reading their morning papers on their iPads to the latest devices being displayed at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, tablet computers are certainly hard to miss at the moment. While businesses are keen to keep up with technological developments, the Enterprise Tablet Market is still finding its feet. However, it...

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16 actions towards massive EU 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. Under...

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Is e-invoicing currently in the trough of disillusionment?

Electronic invoicing and e-billing can easily be plotted on the ‘hype cycle of emerging technology’, when taking a look at posts, discussions and tweets over the past few years. Also the items that make part of e-invoicing and e-billing can be plotted on this cycle, once developed by Gartner. Currently it seems that electronic invoicing and e-bill...

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Does ambition exceeding funding in Finance IT?

Is Finance IT prepared for the impact of regulation? We’ve spoken to some investment banks in New York and London and it seems that banks are at risk of underfunding the implementation of regulatory changes in Finance IT and that staffing levels have fallen back, leaving the sector exposed. Our findings expect Finance IT sell-side spending to inc

Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Too much information - dealing with exponential content

There has been much discussion about the impact of the so-called "information age". Prior to 2003 it has been said that throughout history mankind had generated a sum total of 5 Exabyte’s of content up to that year. Today it is estimated we generate this amount of content measured in days. “Between the birth of the world and 2003, there ...

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Uri Rivner

Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence

ZeusiLeaks Archives File 002: Alarm Bells

The holidays are over and it’s time for the second file plucked from the ZeusiLeaks Archives! If you missed the first one, it’s here. Quick reminder: WikiLeaks, the largest leak of data the world has seen? Nonsense! Trojans like Zeus lurk on millions of personal, corporate and government PCs, stealing data 24 by 7. Everything you do online – eith...

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Different Strokes for Different Folks!

Necessity is the mother of innovation! This tired old cliché was proved right by an Infosys-Asian Banker joint research study of 59 banks from 14 countries in the Asia Pacific region, which revealed that banks innovate mainly to beat severe market and regulatory challenges. However, the similarity ends there. The study highlighted that banks in di...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

What did you watch?

Decent figure for this - mostly still up-to-date video: https://www.finextra.com/fullfeature.asp?id=1020 and 3,5 minute animation: http://boharald.blogspot.com/2011/01/e-invoicing-happening-video.html

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