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Towards the end of 2018, the British Standards Institution (BSI) published a set of guidelines, advising Fintechs how best to engage with financial institutions with the goal of delivering a successful outcome for all: banks, Fintechs and end customers. The report includes recommendations and common pitfalls to avoid. It’s a useful reference guid...
17 January 2019 /startups
Sadra Boutorabi Product Marketing Director at GPayments
The internet and mobile economy have been going through a boom in the last few years. As a result, the online identity authentication industry is growing and evolving quickly. Effective identity verification continues to be one of the greatest challenges facing business owners, payment providers, and card issuers. There are simply more risks online...
15 January 2019 /security /payments
Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank
Singapore is one of the most vibrant and evolving ecosystems of IT & mobile platforms that are pushing mobile & online payments towards new horizons. I have written about the role played by the banks in adding some vigor to this evolving theatre a few months back, but what we’re witnessing is the organic growth of these mobile ecosystems t...
14 January 2019
Over the past 12 months challenger banks have started to move their digital banking into the physical world. For example, ‘mobile-only’ bank Starling is partnering with the Post Office. The partnership will allow customers to deposit and withdraw cash through the Post Office’s 11,500 branches nationwide, to tackle bank branch deserts. This is a ke...
04 January 2019 /inclusion
The sharing of customer transactional data in the UK will undergo a significant change in September 2019, with legislation coming into effect due to end the decade old practice of screen scraping. In the past, screen scraping allowed third party companies to access financial transaction data by logging into digital portals on behalf of a financial
04 January 2019 /retail
Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech
from Alizila Nordics are awesome in so many ways. And one of those is my favorite fintech. We are already used to Alipay daily appearing in the news when they make yet another partnership in yet another country popular among Chinese tourists. So when the news about Bergen appeared, I was not impressed. Not until I talked with Norwegian payment a
20 December 2018
Sam Goffman Business analyst at Forex
BitPay CEO Stephen Peir believes that the cost of digital money will increase significantly after it is actively used, the world's youngest cryptomillionaire ErikFinman wrote the “obituary” of Bitcoin and other news of the last two days. Last weekend, most digital money fell; many cryptocurrencies updated their yearly lows. At the same time, sever...
19 December 2018 /inclusion
Project management as a discipline has undergone a tectonic shift of implementation styles. It is one of the primary disciplines that acknowledges and put in place robust structures in place to assess and manage Risks. Risks that can hamper successful delivery or completion of the projects. With millennials joining the workforces and now entering ...
19 December 2018 /devops
Many regulations impact the way banks and financial services firms make commitments or conduct transactions with partners and customers. This means that they must find relevant contracts, review the affected language, and then make business decisions to revise or novate the contract, renegotiate commercial terms, or terminate to avoid non-compli
17 December 2018 /ai /regulation
Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.
Crypto-Crypt or Gold Mine? As you probably remember, Bitcoin was the big news headlines and the dinner table talk of a year ago. As crypto-currencies soared in value, it was rightly the dominant topic of conversation. Crypto-currencies had advanced in value quite dramatically through the second half of 2017. Bitcoin increased from $1,000 each, to ...
13 December 2018 /payments
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