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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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2018 Looms Large. What Does The Future Hold for Lenders?

A New Game Awaits Digital fluency and a thirst for convenience are making the UK’s borrowers more capricious and cost-sensitive than ever. Interest rate rises, and new regulations will add fuel to this fire next year, and lenders that can’t keep up will get burned. 1) Lowest price wins In the digitised age of credit price comparison sites,

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Priya Lakshmi

Priya Lakshmi Digital Leader at Own

Un-’block’ your business 1.0: Is KYC a Blockchain use case or do we need more?

Blockchain is very exciting for many and offers tremendous opportunities to make processes more efficient, create new markets and change existing market infrastructure. A lot of people are also joining the bandwagon because it is complex, difficult to understand (oh well, its building blocks are game theory (consensus based), cryptography and peer...

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Jose Pierre

Jose Pierre CEO at Marketware International, Inc.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AUTOMATION FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES

It is no longer a question that Emerging technology, such as robotic process automation (RPA) and, cognitive computing will have great impact on our businesses in years to come and, will undoubtedly transform the workforce of the future across the financial sector. Today, RPA is at the forefront of human-computer technology and promises to provid...

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Henri Wajsblat

Henri Wajsblat Financial Services Expert at Anaplan

How bank CFOs are using technology to drive transformation

The CFO role in financial institutions has always been pivotal. But as the industry evolves and technology and data become increasingly critical to operations, CFOs have taken the lead in driving industry transformation, and technology is the vehicle they’re using for change. For the modern bank CFO who is embracing new strategy and performance re...

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Jeremy Light

Jeremy Light Co-founder at Fourdotzero

Is Bitcoin a Store of Value or a Payment System

It is a while since I have written about Bitcoin, but I continue to be fascinated by it. In particular, by Bitcoin’s ability to endure and continue serenely on in the face of all manner of controversies and headwinds. Possible Outcomes I have a long-held view there are only two possible outcomes for Bitcoin – it will either disappear, or it will be...

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Jean-Stephane Gourevitch

Jean-Stephane Gourevitch CEO at Mobile Convergence Ecosystems Ltd.

Autopsy of a disaster: Thoughts on the Equifax debacle

The Equifax debacle demonstrate the danger lurking into a very outdated, non-customer friendly and absolutely not transparent approach to data. The market is sanctioning Equifax before the regulators hopefully do the same in Europe at least and the consumers launch legal actions possibly class actions as it is now possible in the EU. That such a ...

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The IoT and Rural Banking in India

Can IoT transform last mile delivery of financial services to rural India? While rural banking in India is heavily reliant on channel partners and distribution networks, an emphasis on digitizing and automating would give rise to greater cost efficiencies, as well as increased banking transparency and accountability. The Internet of Things (IoT) c...

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Kunal Patel

Kunal Patel Product Director at Worldpay

Innovation Labs, Hackathons and Accelerators - Fad or Fab?

There has been a tremendous amount of debate as to whether innovation labs, hackathons or accelerators are indeed a success or just another way to garner public attention. The FinTech world has been awash with a lot of hype over the last 3-4 years but those working at a product/solution level see things very differently. As someone who is heavily ...

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No collaboration, No action

Whilst the world is getting smaller the workplace is getting bigger. Teams are global and offices are virtual. True collaboration has never been more crucial. Specifically in trading, effective and efficient collaboration can be the difference between make or break, the stakes are insanely high, huge sums of money rest on traders being able to make...

Janne Jutila

Janne Jutila Head of Business Alliances at Signicat AS

Estcoin should happen

If you have interest in Estcoin and crypto currencies, please check my latest blog on https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/estcoin-should-happen-janne-jutila/?published=t #estcoin #eResidency Happy to engage in further activity to speed up the launch 21st century money. Janne Jutila

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