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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.

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

AI and Intelligent Automation is Key for Banks to Help Navigate Inflationary Stormy Weather

Six months ago preparing for SIBOS, the biggest elephant in the room for what’s keeping bankers up at night was probably sanctions. How Western governments have ratcheted up sanctions against Russians and Russian businesses will still be a big topic of SIBOS but another issue is waded into the debate, namely inflation. At last year’s SIBOS, inflat...

/sibos /devops

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

Why banks considering coding their own applications should think again

Any bank that wants to create applications, for everything from sending customers a newsletter to onboarding a new client, may think hard coding is the best thing to do or the only option they have. Let me give you three reasons they should think again. Coding is expensive and time-consuming Hard coding applications can take months of programmers’...

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Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

The value of frictionless banking

It goes without saying that today’s consumers expect activities like making a payment or checking their bank balance to be as easy and fast as possible. But the ongoing cost of living crisis also means they have a clear need for their banks to make services as straightforward as possible to access. That means banks need to invest in the customer e...

/payments /devops

Bo Harald

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

Banks have it all - reposted

Blog nbr 400. The benefits of moving faster to a Data-driven Economy are clear. The mission in short: better service, mega-shift in productivity, sustainability through less waste and CO2, fact-based decisions, true single European market, global transparency and the end of grey economy. Without banks taking more responsibility and politicians r...

/payments /regulation

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Digital Member Experience in Superannuation

Background In recent years, the Financial Services Industry has gone through a rapid and significant digital transformation journey. The need for digital technology experiences is gaining momentum in the superannuation industry and innovation is going to play a significant role in accelerating the creation of new digital superannuation products fo...

/wealth /predictions

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

Innovation in Banking: Harnessing People and Technology

Go to the websites of the big High Street Banks and you come across pages devoted to innovation and technology. That’s no surprise when banks have sped up their digitisation programmes following COVID and the changing behaviour of customers. There’s a lot to celebrate and lots of evidence of banks breaking down barriers on the technologies they’ll...

/payments /devops

Mykyta Grechyna

Mykyta Grechyna 

Perspectives of Global Cryptocurrency Regulation

Recently, the European Parliament and the European Commission have provisionally agreed on the regulation project aimed at the cryptocurrency market called Markets in Crypto-Asset Regulation (MiCA). We can already notice certain principles by which respective authorities worldwide will highly likely regulate the crypto asset projects. MiCA is the ...

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Akshaya Chandra

Akshaya Chandra Head of Innovation, Technopreneur at Tata Consultancy Services

Underwriting 4.0

They say permanence in life is flux itself. It is more true now in 2022, in a world coming out of the throes of a Global pandemic, into a War situation and possibly at the face of a Economic recession. There is a rather fast and furious change in how we consume financial services – thanks to some of these headwinds. For decades, Insurance customer...

/regulation /predictions

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

The Impact of Digital-Only Banks on the Traditional Banking Industry

Digital banking has boomed over the last few years, yet cross-selling and switching has not substantially shifted. According to PWC, less than “10% of UK customers with mortgages, personal loans or insurance held them with their main banking provider”, and according to comparison site Finder, over a quarter (27%) of British adults have opened an ...

/retail /inclusion

Prakash Pattni

Prakash Pattni MD, Financial Services Digital Transformation at IBM Cloud

London Fintech Week: Removing Security and Compliance Friction is Key for Growth

As London Fintech Week kicks off today, we are reminded of the important role the city plays in the global fintech industry. In fact, the UK fintech sector – much of it centred in London - has been going through something of a golden age in recent years, and the figures back this up. The UK registered a record year in annual fintech investment in ...

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