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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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Mom-and-pop stores to facilitate Digital Financial Services in Indonesia

While the promise of Digital Money in Indonesia has been much anticipated, the services have taken time to launch and even longer to gain adoption. This had resulted in a highly fragmented market with over 17 e-money licenses - yet none enjoying the adoption or offering the range of services required. Now this is set to change with a new regulator...

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Stanley Epstein

Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group

Why I am worried about the future of mobile payments

Developments in the mobile payments world have really got me worried. I come across an ever increasing account of different banks and technology companies coming to market each with their own variations of what they call “mobile payments”. To start with the term “mobile payments” is confusing to most, even some seasoned bankers. What the man-in-the...

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Abhishek Chatterjee

Abhishek Chatterjee Managing Partner at Gartner Inc.

Banks - Own Mobile Wallet to lead Digital Commerce Transformation

Banking industry is on the cusp of Digital disruption. Threats are no longer coming from their traditional peers, but from disrupters across telecom (Bharati Airtel applying for Banking license), cash rich retail (Amazon, Alibaba providing lending services) & Smart phone manufacturing (Google, Apple etc) industry. To complicate things further,...

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Alex Noble

Alex Noble Account Director at McAfee

Bank Branches, do we bet on Botin or BBVA or the stats from the FDIC?

It’s been a fascinating contrast between the statements of Ana Botin and Francisco Gonzalez. In her first interview, Ana Botin (the new Global Chairwoman of Santander, formerly CEO of Santander UK) told the Financial Times that, “Bank branches will save banks from digital challengers”. Meanwhile, with uncanny timing, it was reported that Francis...

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Chris Principe

Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.

Finance as a Service - FaaS

Disruption, is a fascinating interest of mine, the magnitude occurring in energy, cars, Internet of Things and financial fronts is just amazing in its breadth and speed. On the energy front, U.S. growth has resumed due largely to the technical innovations of fracking and horizontal drilling. On the car front, Tesla, according to Forbes, has irreve...

Abhishek Chatterjee

Abhishek Chatterjee Managing Partner at Gartner Inc.

Standardize, Innovate, Disrupt and Expand Digital Banking with Open APIs

FS industry is going through a big disruption cycle, where they are trying to redefine the business model, create and sell differentiated product and services, engage customer and community at large to provide value added services, innovate and optimize business to stay ahead of the competition. Biggest threats for FS Industry are coming from inno...

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What's up, doc?!

It's been a while since I blogged here at Finextra. Several of my regular followers were curious as to why I am staying below the radar. Firstly, we are nearing the launch of MultiPass pilot with a major transport operator in London, and 24 hours in a day is simply not enough. (Cannot say more here due to Finextra rules.) We are also in the proce...

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fee and revenue by lending other's money

With P2P lending hitting high in industry, banks should jump faster to tae advantage this- innovative ideas flexi loans and flexi deposits - letting lender-customers and borrower-customers decide the interest rates and terms - banks can make more money thorugh documents, fees, faciliating mobie and card payments and enable lending as an aggregator...

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

What Jack Ma can teach Santander about the role of branches and growth

I know there's been considerable debate about the Santander press coverage today where they 'intend to use old-school branches, plus a more aggressive IT budget to beat off competition' from tech start-ups, platforms and pure-plays. Here's the thing - the attackers are attacking the distribution model, so a plan that articulates doubling down on a...

Bo Harald

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

I am sure. Very sure.

Taking the previous blog forward - asking myself questions - and moving the horizontal slider to the right when considering an issue important (in this case for banks) - and the vertical slider up when being surer. 1. Is the stable and cheap funding created by transaction accounts (private & corporate) important (full score for most banks)? H...

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