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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.

Bo Harald

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

e-ID as a service

e-banking customers in Finland used their e-banking passwords 56,2 million times to log in to public sector and other non-banking services last year. Up from 47,1m. Finland is a small country - so it may be useful to multiply into a corresponding EU-potential = 4 billion times. Does this save tax payers' money? Does it save citizens nerves? Oh ye...

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The APIs Advantage Is In Automation and Machine Learning

We are in the midst of interplay of disparate technology solutions in an enterprise. It is always comfortable to sit back and strategise to clean up existing ones and have a compact set of solutions that make life a lot easier. This is purely academic utopia. The reality is the old and the new will have to coexist and one must find the indifferenc...

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Digital Currencies - The Last Frontier For Peer to Peer Global Trade

One important benefit from Digital Currencies (DCs) is in its immunity to exchange rate fluctuations and control excercised that one sees in fiat currencies. A simple scenario will illustrate my view point. A seller, of good valued at 100 units of DC, given a 30 day payment term will receive 100 units on the date the payment is due. The assumption...

Stanley Epstein

Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group

Reflections on the fintech revolution

Have you ever noticed how we move through phases? Looking back over my long career in the world of banking and banking technology, there were always those ‘new’ technologies that kept popping up. They would be the toast of the banking technology world for a while (in those far gone days we did not have names or concepts like ‘fintech’) and then as...

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Cards are the hottest new content category on mobile

2015 has been the breakthrough year for consumer mobile payments at physical stores. Beyond the current hype, there is still plenty of debate about whether mobile proximity payment will be successful moving forward. This new consumer value has roots in both the payments and mobile ecosystems and yet is something wholly new – an idea that both ecos...

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UK Mobile Proximity Payments 2015

A quick review of who has launched widely commercially available open-loop proximity payment (NFC) solutions for the UK market. Firstly there is Everything Everywhere (EE) – they launched Cash on Tap in 2013 which is a slightly evolved version of the initial Orange QuickTap implementation. To get this to work you need: an Android EE Monthly Contra...

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Outlook for Global Bank Strategies in the face of historic disruption

Goldman Sachs recently forecasts that $4.7 trillion traditional financial services revenue could be at risk from disruption. As new entrants, supported by a $12 billion investment in Fintech, disrupt existing business models, using new technology fuelled strategies, I thought we could reflect on what counter strategies banks might adopt that could...

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How Samsung can beat Apple - it's all about the smartwatch now

As usual, Samsung is too late to the (mobile payments) party. Not because of Apple, but because of Google - read this fantastic piece by Tom Noyes whom I greatly respect (although Will, CEO of LoopPay that was bought out by Samsung, has some valid points too...) Samsung is not a pushover, and will continue muscling in, because they still don't und...

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DIGITAL BANKING Tips - Tip 27: Big Data

“BIG DATA” is one of the most famous Digitalization concepts in recent years, not only in financial landscape but also almost in all industries. Everyone talks about it and mentions how important it is, but except for a few, many do not know what to do with it. As the 90% of world’s data generated over the last two years and has been getting bigg...

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Charmaine Oak

Charmaine Oak Co-Founder/Director at Shift Thought Ltd

Four major trends transform card payments market in India

I had an opportunity to catch up with Nitish Asthana of First Data who provided a fascinating account of how the fast moving payments scene in India is changing the very fabric of daily life. As 900 million mobile phones become potential new payment instruments for the 1.2 billion population, this has a potential to transform not just consumer paym...

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