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A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.
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Robotic Process automation, otherwise known as RPA, is a significant, rapid change that’s encroaching upon many industries. Quickly evolving, implementing RPA into your industry could help to digitize labor using machine intelligence, capitalize on engagement, create big data, manage social media, and solve mobile technology issues, as well as c
21 May 2018 /ai
Data has gained a new prominence in modern society. The constant flow of news, incidents, investigations, public debate, regulation and law making has raised awareness of how business, government and individual's data can be used and abused. The meteoric rise in social media's global adoption and influence has acted both as a stimulus to new ways o...
16 May 2018 /ai
Challenges of the digital age require new ways of thinking, especially from traditional market players in the financial industry. A Design Thinking approach provides an effective method to deliver customer-centered financial services, and Fintech success proves that. Unfortunately, it's not so easy for traditional banking culture to overcome inner...
14 May 2018
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
I sit on a fair number of boards and project steering groups (start-ups, established, traditional, think-tanks and government bodies) and act as an independent advisor in the digitalization area. What strikes me: - Most of us have heard and read about the radical techno-driven future. How data is the key part of any business and public sector steer...
27 April 2018
Priya Lakshmi Digital Leader at Own
I have had a busy and interesting first quarter of the year with many of my days filled with evaluating a new start-up / technology vendor who has come up with a brand new blockchain or DLT platform and whether backing them makes sense. I have also been spending equal amount of time working with or following some of the larger consortia formed in ...
26 April 2018
Arita Krastina Lead UX Architect at UXDA
A lot of changes have been happening thanks to a continuously evolving FinTech industry, but many changes are yet to come. Understanding what customers want and need is very crucial for every business, and finance is no exception. There has to be a clear understanding of the things that either cause customers headaches or deliver pleasure when cre...
Alex Kreger Founder and CEO at UXDA Financial UX Design
Each year technology makes the world more complex for people to understand. So, easy-to-use services for consumers are in particularly great demand. Due to the nature of the human mind: it is vital to perceive the world in a simple way. Any financial service can get an advantage by delivering a perfect user experience based on a simple interface. ...
17 April 2018 /retail /devops
Willem Lambrechts Managing Director at Drebbel
Financial news in Flanders : clients of Argenta bank are unable to use their banking app or the online banking portal after a software upgrade. The problem did not last for a couple of minutes (which would have been quite bad) , no it has been going on for days. Can you imagine? The explications given by their CEO in today's Flemish financial news...
04 April 2018 /retail
Do you remember the sensation around the launch of Microsoft’s chatbot, Tay? It was an exciting breakthrough in AI and people across the globe were logging on to chat with Tay and test her knowledge. However, in a matter of hours, Tay took on racist overtones, fed by inputs from her very users. The incident of Tay demonstrates the inherent fears p...
26 March 2018 /ai
Jeremy Light Co-founder at Fourdotzero
Bitcoin’s price averaged $272 in 2015, $567 in 2016 and $4,001 in 2017. It peaked at just below $20,0000 in mid-December 2017. So far in 2018, as of mid-March, the average is just over $11,000. Bitcoin’s price has risen exponentially, as has interest in it from regulators, speculators, developers, innovators, economists, journalists, bloggers and ...
19 March 2018 /payments
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