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A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.
We have always had two different payment flows without realizing it: pull and push. "Pull" flow is your in-store payment - merchant makes a request for payment, "pulls" payment cr...
PRMIA put on an event at MSCI on Wednesday, called "Innovations in Liquidity Risk Management". Melissa Sexton of Morgan Stanley introduced the agenda, saying that the evening would focus on...
Just few weeks after BBVA acquired Simple Bank for EUR 100 Million; one of the biggest players in the Software Banking Industry, Misys went into the digital fight and took over, for an undisclosed amo...
Recent developments at the European Parliament have proven to be a key milestone for the European Commission's data protection reform. Parliamentary support is now ensured for vital legislation which...
FpML - A Step towards Increased Efficiency and Clarity of Communication Introduction Commercial lenders, in particular banks in the syndicated lending arena, have to deal with a large number of notice...
StartUp is risky business. It’s well known that half of new ventures fail and the best an investor can expect from nine of ten investments is return of capital for a portfolio of ten. Consequently, ...
Is wearable technology the new digital wallet? A few months ago I joined the wearable technology community by purchasing the Pebble smartwatch, a darling of Kickstarter crowd funding, the Pebble rais...
This was the famous question asked of Richard “Tricky Dicky” Nixon in the 1960 presidential campaign – implying he could not be trusted. Last week when I was buying a used car, how would I know I cou...
I have just received a letter from Barclaycard telling me that they are not just withdrawing their innovative OnePulse card but are also simplifying their range of credit cards. While the withdrawal o...
Since begin of the year, one can observe a sort of gold rush in the area of mobile banking: first was AXA Banque in France, which launched a new 'mobile-first' offering called Soon (addressing several...
Mobile payments. HCE. Mobile wallets. Wearables. This launch, that announcement. Blah, blah, blah... There is so much overlapping noise, confusion and lack of any clear direction in the market right n...
When we have been working with changing direction in large companies or large scale projects like x-EU e-invoice harmonization, automated VAT reporting and the real time economy generally speaking we ...