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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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DIGITAL BANKING Tips - Tip 9: Digital Banking Security

One of the main challenges Digital Banking professionals face is to find the equilibrium point between security and functionality. At the end of the day we all want to provide the best digital banking experience in the most secure way. So is this possible? I think it is, I like “functional security” expression which means security enabling the bus...

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DIGITAL BANKING Tips - Tip 8: Mobile Security - How Mobile Phones hacked and Afterwards

As we talked about " What happens if mobile banking user's phone hacked" in the previous Digital Banking Tip, now it is time to go a little deeper in the subject. Mobile security is a concern or should be a concern for everyone, not only digital bankers. Mobile devices became our IDs, probably you heard the famous expression "you ar...

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Will banks merge with the FinTech sector?

In previous posts, I introduced the concept of retail banks’ unbundling to particular services. Also, I outlined the reasons FinTech companies are successful. I stressed that banks could defend themselves by increasing their focus while simplifying the product range, looking at products from customer use case perspective, and ultimately driving do...

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Fintech start-up rolls out mobile payments across Europe

As Fintech firms continue to make breakthroughs and disrupt banking and payments services around the world, I was curious to hear the first hand experience of a start-up at the forefront of innovation in Europe. Cashcloud has received a number of awards for its innovative payments service, most recently winning the Fintech Innovation Awards 2015 h...

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DIGITAL BANKING Tips - Tip 7: Mobile Security - What happens if mobile banking user's phone hacked?

Criminals always go where people go - this is the first thing we have learned in the 1st day Criminology class (sure together with many other interesting stuff, please note that there was no Discovery Channel's Crime documentaries available back in 1996!). Criminal mindset is quite simple and follows where money goes. When it was asked "why d...

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Alex Noble

Alex Noble Account Director at McAfee

Customer insight, election polling and why don’t branches have more success in customer surveys?

Current customer experience research shows that (whenever asked) consumers state that they like bank branches and prefer banks with branches. Yet the evidence of their behaviour and mobile adoption rates suggests otherwise. Obviously, there’s a parallel here with this month’s UK general election, where the result predicted by the polls did not mat...

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Charmaine Oak

Charmaine Oak Co-Founder/Director at Shift Thought Ltd

An inflection point for mobile financial services in Nepal

As authorities and developers work hard to help families somehow struggle through the devastating results of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake of April 25 and the second major earthquake yesterday, my thoughts turn to the longer term potential of promoting the development of financial services, to help recovery over the next 5 years. Mobile money clear...

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DIGITAL BANKING Tips - Tip 6: Accessibility and Engagement - the key for using Digital Banking

Accessibility is very critical part of providing Digital Banking service, even if you have the best online/mobile banking application - without accessibility it has no use. In theory, accessibility is always there - at the end of the day clients can go to branch to have a password, or fill many fields of online forms etc. However in practice, clie...

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DIGITAL BANKING Tips - Tip 5: Reducing Churn and Inactivation by unblocking blocked passwords instan

Total number of online banking users is one of the main KPIs for tracking performance of Digital Banking. Ideally you have strong growth annual, beat the competitors' (or overall market) growth and have more online banking penetration than your country's Internet penetration. As we do not live in the ideal world, this is not the case for most of us...

Bo Harald

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

The second pyramid - huge value

One picture says it all.

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