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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,

Are you sure? How sure?

I have the privilige to act as chairman for a young company http://www.zef.fi/en/home/ The company's WHY - mission - is very clear: helping people to make decisions - better decisions - all over the place. There is an exponentially growing need for this as the information overflow continues to grow exponentially. So does the number of devices, apps...

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The Passwordless Experience is set to transform the way we pay

As security breaches continue to grab headlines, I was intrigued by new claims that not only could online security be improved for consumers, but it could actually become a more delightful user experience. The launch of Apple Pay has proven to us that this is possible. With over 150 FIDO members, the Board of Directors alone reads like a Who’s Wh...

/security /payments

Abhishek Chatterjee

Abhishek Chatterjee Managing Partner at Gartner Inc.

Consumer Electronic Show 2015 - Consumarization of FinTech

Keeping with the hype of internet of things, drones, wearable, 3D printing, virtual reality and other; this year's CES was full of new technologies and trends. Consumers are on the verge of getting the best possible experience they can have. With consumarization of IT, some of these technologies will be adopted by enterprises in a hurry. Specially...

Alex Noble

Alex Noble Account Director at McAfee

Are we getting Big Data fatigue?

There seems to be some shock that bank execs might be dissatisfied with Big Data. Big Data (the ability to analyse and understand massive data sets) has been heralded as revolutionary for financial services and is seen as a major IT trend. The promise is huge. The compute power and analytic software now exist to interrogate unimaginably huge amo...

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Why markets tumbled on Global Economic Outlook

According to the Global Economic Prospects annual report from World Bank just released, growth in 2014 was lower than expected. Global growth is expected to rise moderately to 3% in 2015, while high-income countries will see a smaller growth of 2.2%. Developing countries fare better with a 4.8% increase. Having just studied the report I thought I ...

/regulation /retail

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Solving the corporate bond liquidity conundrum

Financial market structure changes, largely driven by G20 reforms, are arguably the catalyst to the inefficiency and ever increasing liquidity drought in the secondary european corporate bond markets which investors look to address. Access to liquidity remains the biggest challenge for investors as banks are unable to provide liquidity because of ...

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Stanley Epstein

Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group

Understanding Digital Banking

The term ‘Digital Banking’ is, to my mind, one of the most miss-understood concepts in the financial world today. Ask any group of 21st century bankers and you will get more definitions than there are member of the group. And this confusion of definition is one of the reasons why there a lack of fire and enthusiasm for the whole idea. Many simply ...

Bo Harald

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

The key to progress is change

Change in human behavior - to be precise. Only when the next person is changing his/her behavior does innovation actually materialize. This is probably too self evident. Also that change is both enabled and driven by exponentially more capable IT. We need something to change into. Simplified - experienced - roadmap: 1. Create service or tool that ...

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The year 2014 was a tipping point for NFC payments

I recently caught up with Jonathan Vaux Director, New Digital Payments and Strategy at Visa Europe, to discuss the trends he observed over 2014 and the outlook for 2015. In short, 2014 has been a really powerful year for payments innovations. I summarise some of the main points from my interview and welcome your comments on how you saw NFC and con...

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Mobile Money in Zimbabwe reaches 5 million people

As mobile penetration reached 106% , and effectively 60% of people in Zimbabwe now have access to mobile services, mobile operators have gone a step further. They now offer people safe and convenient ways to transfer money, pay for electricity and basic services and last but not least, add much needed top-up to their own mobile phones, or those ...

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