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Peter Ku P & Chief Industry Strategist - Financial Services at Informatica
The 25th May marked the third anniversary of GDPR – and in many ways, it’s hard to believe it’s been three years. Precisely 661 fines since the regulation’s arrival have been issued, and many data protection ‘unknown unknowns’ remain for UK financial services organisations. It is common for data protection officers and cyber security specialists i...
14 June 2021 /regulation /cloud
Jonathan Westley Chief Data Officer, Experian UK & EMEA at Experian
Covid-19 has caused so much disruption and completely changed the way we live, work and play. While in many ways it has pressed pause on our lives, in other ways the pandemic has initiated G-force inducing acceleration. Nowhere is this more evident than in our appreciation of the value of data. Data has shaped our response to this crisis at a globa...
15 January 2021 /covid-19
Current data trends are not only changing how organisations operate on a day-to-day basis, but they’re also affecting the kind of people who are most in demand. A new collection of skills and business roles are needed to manage and unlock data, as well as minimise any risk. Today’s organisations must look beyond the latest technologies when it com...
15 September 2020
Tejasvi Addagada Enterprise Data Head at Fortune 500 financial service provider
Here are ten steps to defining a data strategy based on a data capability maturity assessment, for a Financial Institution Identify and Simplify Maturity models, and customize the yardstick as well as benchmarks based on local study and future organization strategy Conduct workshop with leaders and grassroots to sensitize the assessment and questi...
19 April 2020 /regulation /retail
Paul Malyon Head of Data Literacy at Experian
It’s clear the vast majority of businesses see data as among their most valuable assets, vital to success. Being a genuinely data-informed business is of huge importance to winning a competitive advantage. However, recent Experian research suggests that although companies have an abundance of data, they are struggling to achieve their data-informe...
26 February 2020
As the amount of data continues to grow year on year, a business’s ability to compete will increasingly be driven by how well it can extract insight, apply analytics and implement new technologies. That’s key to stay competitive in today’s ever-changing economy, leveraging rich datasets to get a deeper understanding of their customers, operations ...
31 January 2020
Data underpins the modern economy. Every single day, Experian processes more than 100,000 applications for credit cards, mortgages, loans and current accounts and more than 500,000 soft searches, helping individuals take control of their finances and protecting their credit report at the same time. But data itself is constantly changing and evolvi...
03 December 2019
Willem Lambrechts Managing Director at Drebbel
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. (source Wikipedia) A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. (source Wikipedia) Is river a synonym for lake? I don't thin...
11 October 2019 /regulation
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
1. Introduction Just as "Cloud", "IoT" (Internet of Things), "Open Banking" and "Machine Learning", "Big Data" is one of the most written buzzwords in the financial services industry today, but just like the other mentioned terms a clear definition is not so easy to provide. Especially as "Big...
09 September 2019
It must have happened to you. It certainly happens to me every once in a while. I need to find something urgently and even have no clue where to start searching. Typically a spare part of one or another device. A few days ago it was the coffee maker . I remembered buying a couple of seals a long time ago and storing them in secure place where the...
13 August 2019 /ai /regulation
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