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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.

Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Digital Bank or FinTech? Sorry, you're not a Digital Bank

If you listen to the Breaking Banks AM Radio Show today (also available via stream and podcast) you'll hear a spirited rematch of the Great Digital Banking Debate that Michal Panowicz and I had on Twitter a few weeks ago. Anyone who is in a FinTech, of course, believes that FinTech represents the future of the banking experience, but Digital Banke...

Charmaine Oak

Charmaine Oak Co-Founder/Director at Shift Thought Ltd

As Health meets Wealth, can Wisdom afford to trail?

Today as fitbit prepares to float on the New York Stock exchange, after which it could reportedly be worth an estimated $4.1bn, I thought I'd reflect on the further convergence happening between the health and wealth markets and the need for greater wisdom that these trends entail. Health: Mobile Health, Wearables I first started monitoring the co...

Alex Noble

Alex Noble Account Director at McAfee

If mobile is the future, where are the telco’s?

There’s a sense of inevitability about today’s announcement from the BBA, that in Britain customers are predominantly using mobile banking. Customers like to be able to do their basic transactions quickly, easily and conveniently – and the smartphone in your pocket with an app from your bank offers all three. The rise of mobile banking has been a ...

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DIGITAL BANKING Tips - Tip 23: Digital Marketing

Digitalization transformed customer behaviors and their expectations from banking; this forces us to change the way we do marketing. As a result of this transformation, Customer decision journeys have been altered radically and financial services are under heavy pressure to adapt this. At present, “Cross channel”, “targeted” and “just in time” off...

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Is that what you want or what you need?

All companies try to align their strategies to what their clients demand. So it is usual to have a bunch of people thinking about clients' current and future requirements. Thinking about my limited world, there are many sources that show what banks want to do in the future: in-house innovation but collaborating with start-ups, disruption without b...

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DIGITAL BANKING Tips - Tip 22: Voice Biometrics

Providing digital financial services requires high level of security both on the client and bank side. At the same time, Digital Banking growth can only be achieved if the security and the functionality mixed in a right balance, otherwise security might become a business disabler. For this reason, Authentication of clients in a secure and easy way...

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DIGITAL BANKING Tips - Tip 21: 360 degree Mobile Payments

“Mobile Payments” term may trigger different images in everyone’s mind: from Apple Pay to paying parking fee via SMS. Although some players fight for the market dominance, it is hard to guess which one is going to win at the end – if there would be an end. Another interesting thing about Mobile Payments is its potential of being one of the biggest...

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DIGITAL BANKING Tips - Tip 20: Digital Analytics

Reducing cost to serve was the first motivation while banks started to invest in Digital Banking. The idea was simple: migrating the transactions from branches (high cost channel) to self-service channels (low cost channels: ATM, Contact Center, Internet and Mobile). Transaction Migration model has been successfully deployed by many banks so far, ...

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A Very Personal Confession ... I Love Regulation

Last week I was with yet another banking customer, discussing innovation in payments. Another presenter brought up the obligatory slide with an update on payments and banking regulation, and the cost thereof. And as it so often happens, everyone in the audience pulled out a subdued and slightly tired smile. Oh, yes, we know. Regulation is a bi...

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Mobile payments and the great wallet shuffle, which bank will come out on top?

Depending on which survey you read, anywhere from 28% to 48% of iPhone 6 users have already tried Apple Pay, and half of those who haven’t intend to do so in the next 90 days. These astoundingly high numbers will impact the payments industry just as iTunes impacted the music business, and players who adapt will prosper and those who don’t will suf...

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