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This year started out to be yet an exciting one for Financial Technology, I think it is safe to say 2017 is “the year of Fintech”. I support my statement by drawing attention to the growing interest in these solutions among traditional retail banks. The consumer wants their life to be as mobile as possible, so even the traditional banks have been ...
16 May 2017 /inclusion
Damian Kimmelman CEO at DueDil
The banking sector simply isn't lending. And when they are, lending to the wrong businesses. Access to finance continues to be a significant concern for small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) compared with large enterprises. More SMEs experience issues with bank loan financing compared with corporates. This is worrying considering for two reason...
11 May 2017 /retail /startups
Business banking sucks. From accounting to invoicing and the awful customer service, business banking is painful. Our team had loads of pains with business banking. But did other people feel the same way that we did? We sat down with 100 businesses face to face for 45 minutes each to find out. We wanted to figure out what bothers businesses with t...
09 May 2017 /retail /startups
Keith Bear Vice President, Financial Markets at IBM
Jessi Baker, the Founder and CEO of Provenance, recently said: “At its heart, a blockchain is a system that allows people who don’t trust each other, to trust each other.” There is no doubt that blockchain is all about bringing trust to transactions. For almost any supply chain – be it food, medical records, precious gems and minerals, real esta
06 May 2017
Why loyalty matters There is one simple reason why you should read this article. | “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” — Peter Drucker How do you keep a customer? With the help of loyalty. However, loyalty is one of those words that are frivolously thrown around left and right. What does loyalty truly mean, when it comes...
06 May 2017 /retail /startups
Last week I mentioned my efforts to produce an algorithm on CloudQuant.com. As a reminder, they are a strategy incubator that provides historical data going back to 2011. If you can produce a trading or investment strategy that produces decent results they will license the algo from you and pay you a portion of the profits from that strategy. You...
01 May 2017
Abhishek Chatterjee Managing Partner at Gartner Inc.
Post financial crisis, FS institutes are mainly focusing on improving cost income ratio (reduce cost base), leverage ratios (improve quality of assets and comply with regulations) and return on equity (improve profitability). While banks were busy running a tight ship, there is a parallel ecosystem of fintech and other startups came along and start...
29 April 2017 /startups
GLG Partners has hired a head of machine learning. Financial News reports that this is a new role entirely. The article points out that the volume of data that GLG is utilizing is growing. A similar article reports that BlackRock is putting a greater emphasis on computer models. Algos have been around for a while. So these moves make sense. But ho...
25 April 2017
On Monday 27 March 2017 the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs held a Scrutiny Session on the Final Report on Draft Regulatory Technical Standards on Strong Customer Authentication and common and secure communication under Article 98 of Directive 2015/2366 (PSD2). The scrutiny session is an opportunity for Members of ...
07 April 2017 /retail
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Previous posts have aimed at describing the big picture: •https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/13835/real-time-economy-for-eu---big-picture The very compelling Why - the Mission •https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/13836/real-time-economy-for-eu---why The What - the targets in the Vision •https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/13847/real-time-econo...
20 March 2017
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