Trends in Financial Services

A community to discuss the future of financial services and any other interesting trends, strategies, ideas, views.

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Impact Of Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning on Trading And Investing

Investing and trading are activities that can benefit quite a lot from automation. In fact, using artificial intelligence and machine learning can be very handy here, to the point where you can easily replace many human tasks with automated, repeated tasks that can be performed by machines. Can artificial intelligence and machine learning impact ...

22 February 2018 /ai

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Basic Bookkeeping and Working With an Accountant

If you are looking to keep your business organized and profitable, bookkeeping plays a huge role. To flourish in business, you must have a substantial knowledge of financial management, no matter how skilled you are at creating products, providing a service or marketing wears. Otherwise, you would lose money faster than you made them if you do not...

16 February 2018 /inclusion

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PSD2: An innovation springboard for banks

Whilst we’re only a few days into the PSD2 era, which aims to accelerate digital disruption and reshape the financial services industry across Europe, incumbent European banks already have a clear choice to make. They can either settle for what’s to come and risk being outmanoeuvred by direct and new competitors, or actively look for opportunities...

26 January 2018 /regulation

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The year ahead for insurtech: transformation gathers speed

As 2018 gets underway, it is time to reflect on the developments that have shaped the insurance sector over the past year and shed some light on predictions for the next twelve months. The technological innovation that has transformed insurance processes will gather speed in the coming year, leading increasing resources to be directed into the exp...

25 January 2018 /ai

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Technology outlook for financial markets in 2018

2018 is around the corner, offering an opportunity to reflect on the previous year and look at the trends that are likely to shape the financial services sector in the coming year. Just like last year, in this article I offer five technology predictions for financial markets in 2018. 1) Cloud adoption. Cloud has been a prominent talking poi...

21 December 2017 /regulation

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How banks can build better engagement with business customers

With a new year just around the corner, December is typically a month in which people take the time to reflect and remember upon the year gone by. Dealt its fair share of political and economic twists and turns, it’s not surprising uncertainty has hung over the nation, denting both consumer and business confidence in 2017. In fact, in October the ...

13 December 2017 /regulation /retail

Anthony Walton CEO at Iliad Solutions

Profitability and the future for US Banks

McKinsey has produced a paper about the next generation of banking in the United States, describing the challenges faced in customer service, innovation, and maintaining profitability in a changing world. It also predicts what banking will look like in the future, considers countries already adopting new ways of operating, and warns that American ...

11 December 2017 /retail

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

Unicredit's FINO project and its recapitalisation as a whole

We have published a research paper - you can find it in the section "Research Papers and Training Agendas" on our website - about Unicredit's "recapitalisation". It focuses on: the rights issue for €13.0 billion launched in Q1 2017 to fund the bank's Strategic Plan the charges and provisions taken by the bank in Q4 2016, which ...

10 December 2017 /wholesale

Alexandre Neves Manager at Capgemini Financial Services

BREXIT - EU, a multi-level integrated area.

For a better formatted text, visit my LinkedIn page: European Union, a multi-level integrated area. Thank you very much for reading this article. Happy to receive your comments / feedback and suggestions. Kind regards, Alexandre Neves On 23 June 2016, UK has expressed the democratic will of leaving European Union. The key issue that lead to this ...

15 November 2017 /retail

Alex Noble Account Director at McAfee

Securing the Blockchain

[Please note these are my personal views and should not be assumed to be the offical position of my employer] This is an exciting time for Blockchain and there is no shortage of hype. Over the past few months there has been a barrage of blockchain news and the BitCoin price has made it into the coverage of the traditional media. There’s also been...

10 November 2017 /security