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Fintech innovation and startups

Disruption, destruction, harmony and creation; Fintech’s new frontier – a place to discuss the cutting edge of innovation.

Jason Bell

Jason Bell Regional Sales Director, FS&I at ServiceNow

The importance of harnessing FinTech thinking

FS&I: The new order The financial services ecosystem is transforming. While no organisation would deny the pressing need for digital transformation, I'm referring here to anther kind of change; the very structure of the financial services sector itself. A new order is emerging. Fresh vigour is in evidence across the sector. It's a time of consi...

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4 fintech startups changing the way people donate to charity

Over the decade since the global financial crash, charities have had a tough time securing donations. Cultural shifts mean that trust in institutions has plummeted and people are less willing to indulge doorstep or street fundraisers. Many charities have been hit further by a raft of new regulations including the General Data Protection Regulatio...

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Shailendra Malik

Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank

Evolving Multi-Cloud solutions and strategies

In today’s ever-evolving IT systems world the cloud & big data are no longer buzzwords, they drive strategy and an even heavy chunk of budgeting discussion. As big organizations gear up to invest big in their cloud strategies and the follower herd readies themselves, there are many trends that are coming to fore that are causing the CIOs bad h...

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Shailendra Malik

Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank

ICOs from innovation to abuse

In past 2 years market for ICOs have boomed like a wild flower and the flower is everywhere. Only later you’ll realize that it isn’t the flower it is the weed. The concept of ICO was noble and it was trying to avoid the bullying that was going on in the start-up funding markets by VCs and Angel investors. Before I start talking about VC bullying o...

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Shailendra Malik

Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank

Gig economy - A boon for Immigrants

With the current political polarisation of the world, we find herds of immigrants entering multiple countries in search of safety, security and with a dream to build a better and brighter future for themselves and their next generations. But the harsh reality hits soon, and they realise it takes time for them to find job that suits them. They end ...

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Learning from start-ups: the good and the not so good

Innovation has become the new buzzword in the world of financial services. Today, the quest for innovation has become increasingly important as adopting a culture of innovation is often identified with a trajectory of business growth, while failure to do so could lead to an organisation lagging behind. But how do long established companies ensure ...

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Freddie McMahon

Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd

Chatbots to set a new benchmark for ISO 9001 organisational knowledge across 1m organisations

ISO 9001 is the most widely used quality management standard worldwide. There are over 1m organisations across over 170 countries that are certified to this standard. The latest edition ISO 9001: 2015 introduced major new requirements. The most important is Clause 7.1.6 as it sets the standards for the practical knowledge to support servicing cus...

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James Piggot

James Piggot Product Analyst at Finastra

User experience enhanced by artificial intelligence

I had a couple of good user experiences over the past couple of days, they may seem like small beer to some people but to me they point to a bright future... One was I wrote an email in Gmail that mentioned "... I have attached a PDF with the latest summary...". I then hit send but forgot to attach the PDF. The response from Gmail was to...

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Freddie McMahon

Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd

Corporate training cannot cope with the ever-widening knowledge gap

As the pace of change continues to accelerate faster and faster, it has become overwhelmingly clear that training is no longer fit for purpose, to address the ever-widening knowledge gap. This is not to say that training is superfluous, but it should not be deployed when there are viable alternatives that are more efficient and effective and opera...

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Naresh Kurup

Naresh Kurup Director - Marketing at CustomerXPs

Digital Disruption: How Fintech is Pushing Banks to Change

Fintech has brought unprecedented disruption in the financial services ecosystem. While traditionally, fintech was used for back office functions by leveraging software to help banks manage customer databases, execute transactions and handle accounts, today it has DIY modes where customers rely less on a brick and mortar bank for their banking nee...

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