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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.

Péter Ekler

Péter Ekler Head of Future Technology at Zenitech

AR and VR could revolutionise customer experience in the fintech sector

One of the things I love about my research is talking to organisations about how technology will change the way they do things in the future, and then working with my team to create technology to prove concepts. We think about the direction technology is going in, and what that means for organisations right now. In financial services, one of the ...

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Shaju Nair

Shaju Nair Payments SME, Product Manager at Temenos

Fault lines in the Modern Financial System

It brings me grief when I hear people refer to CBDC as being just another form of digital money or just another mobile application for making payments when in reality there is a world of difference with CBDC being sovereign money (as is notes and coins) controlled and guaranteed by central bank and backed by assets, once upon a time gold itself, ...

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Kevin Davis

Kevin Davis Global CTO of AWS Business at Atos

Debunking 3 Myths of the Cloud

Cloud adoption has been embraced by companies with 94% using some form of cloud computing in their operations in 2022. One of the best business decisions organisations can currently make is to no longer contribute to leases on large and expensive data centres and instead, kick-start cloud migration. However, despite the perks, many are still hesi...

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Bo Harald

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

My e-Journey - over 40 years. Part 8. It is the economy, stupid..

As I wrote in the first post, my interest for digitalisation started off from trying to automate more work in the backoffices. Then it moved to convenience for e-banking customers > not having to send or receive invoice snailmail and keeing in lenghty details when paying. It then jumped back to productivity when the Finnish public sector calcula...

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Bo Harald

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

Ladders galore

An often repeated experience on my journey has been that one thing leads to another, which leads to another and so it goes. You may have a hunch about what these may add up to - but seldom a very clear picture or a plan. So get going - and start with what many need often (preferably same logic, user experience and tool) at home and at work - and ke...

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Bo Harald

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

My e-Journey - over 40 years. Part 6. Towards a new e-world

I have a few more parts in mind. Candidates - time permitting - include: Ladders galore, Productivity impact high level evaluation, Life events as starting point for service design, Single Market leap, Sustainability impact and Leadership observations. Lesson learned: Writing may help you to use what has been done right and what failed when looking...

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Bo Harald

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

My e-Journey - over 40 years. Part 5. Mobile rungs in the ladder and Mobey Forum

The first rung in the mobile services ladder was the word syntheziser for pushbutton telephone payments created in -82. Once mobile phones - the next rung - started to appear you could use them to make wireless payments. An advertisement has a man sitting on the ice - fishing with a bulky Nokia drag-around mobile phone next to him. The next rung ...

/payments /retail

Bo Harald

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

My e-Journey - over 40 years. Part 4. Going Nordic

Banking in Finland was hit very hard by an economic recession of unseen proportions in the early 90s. One unfortunate aspect was that local banks before that had hastily been deregulated and massed into commercial lending without the needed experience. This might still have been manageable - but the unrealistic attempts to keep the Finnish Markka ...

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Dmitry Dolgorukov

Dmitry Dolgorukov CEO at GiniMachine

5 Trends To Transform Your Lending Business In 2023

The past couple of years have been marked by uncertainty both in the financial industry and beyond, with a shift toward remote working, digital-first strategies and a growing e-commerce industry—increasing from $3.46 trillion in 2019 to $5.7 trillion in 2022. For lending organizations, this means that the way business is conducted has changed sign...

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Chris Hopwood

Chris Hopwood Founder & MD at FS Partnership

Why now is the time to strengthen marketing activity

A wise man once said: “If I was down to my last dollar, I’d spend it on public relations.” It’s a quote often attributed to Microsoft founder Bill Gates, though there’s some debate over whether he actually said it. Whatever the truth, it’s fair to say the comment has become a marketing world urban myth with origins dating back more than a decade. ...

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