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A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.
Supply chain blockchain Proof of Concept (PoC) initiatives are showing that further progress is needed on the DLT technology before it will be ready to support production-grade applications in large-s...
Money without Innovation Fiat money takes three forms - electronic deposits at commercial banks, banknotes (and coins) and central bank (CB) reserves. None of these are great starting points for innov...
Conversation-as-a-Service meets the trading floor The way we interact with computers has continually evolved from punch cards, command line interfaces and keyboards, the introduction of the mouse and ...
We have all experienced the moment when we understand that the time for change has come. Often these changes are associated with personal challenges. Most of the time we want to implement them as soon...
The analysis of use cases proposed by Community NdT participants continues. Certify the Existence of Goods in Inventory (proposed by Omlog- logistics services and Guerra- SME food processor). This sol...
Digital adoption is usually looked at from a technological standpoint. What kind of tech can we build to make it more convenient to bank? What can we make easier, quicker, more cost effective? But the...
I was recently asked out to fill out a questionnaire on blockchain trends and one of the question was to rank the top 3 reasons / challenges we are seeing to blockchain adoption in mainstream and the ...
In the highly competitive world of investment banking, exceeding customer requirements is the only sure-fire way to guarantee market share. As such, investment banks need to be able to deliver reliabl...
It the next decade, it is expected that some form of artificial intelligence technology will perform work across financial functions, allowing people resources to focus on higher-value tasks and proje...
The analysis of use cases proposed by Community NdT participants continues. Proof of Quality (proposed by Guerra, an Italian SME food processor). There are small-medium sized companies (SMEs) that ope...
2018 will certainly feature in the annals of the history of immediate payments: 3 major schemes – Real Time 1 (EBA RT1) for the processing of SEPA Credit Transfer Instant in Europe, The Clearing Hou
In recent years there has been growing a discussion on the ability of traditional businesses to adapt their services to the expectations of customers born after 1980. What should traditional businesse...