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London was home to many European fintech companies - currently almost 50% of all payment institutions of the European Economic Area (EEA) are clustered in the UK. However, Brexit means that they will face the risk of losing authorization to provide financial services within the European Union (EU), e.g., lose the opportunity to serve clients from ...
16 April 2019 /regulation
Bartlomiej Szymanski Business Consultant at Ailleron
Evaluating customer journeys and business models are more relevant than ever. The service model is changing accordingly to sales and service processes which are enabled in digital channels. Regardless many improvements in the area of customer journeys, instant human assistance plays a key role in encouraging customers to use online and mobile bank...
11 April 2019 /retail
The world will never be the same again - regardless of when and under what conditions Brexit will actually happen (and whether it will happen at all): certain things, including the financial world, will never go back to the way they were. First and foremost, financial companies with British licenses have realized the risk of losing authorization t...
05 April 2019 /regulation
Compressed margins and fear of disruption by tech giants is driving asset managers to search for new ways to raise revenue, reduce costs, and develop new funds and products. But these trends also imply a significant amount of unpredictability and operational turmoil that some managers’ IT teams are unprepared for. Pressures on asset managers are b...
04 April 2019
More and more financial institutions are driving value by collaborating with Fintechs, usually by leveraging open APIs. This strategy is in direct contrast to the way in which banks have traditionally managed their businesses, which is to directly own technology resources and keep everything firmly closed. Increasingly being referred to as the pla...
29 March 2019 /devops
Damien Cabadi Chief Financial Officer at Spirit Asset Management
After several years of fruitless siege, Greeks hid their best warriors in a giant wooden horse and left Troy. The Trojans brought the statue in the city to celebrate their victory. But after a night of celebration, the Greeks jumped out from the wooden horse and opened the city gates to the rest of the Greek army. Is history condemned to repeat it...
29 March 2019 /startups
Earlier this month our team attended the InvestOps USA 2019 conference just outside of Tampa, Florida. COOs, CTOs and other operations professionals converged to discuss current trends shaping the industry. Presentations covered an array of topics, including: Challenges being navigated among Investment Operations Teams Best practices being deploye...
28 March 2019
Introduction The enterprises in the 21st century have been drawn into the data endearing ecosystem that is currently present today. With the formula of more data, more success gaining popularity amongst several decision makers, it is highly evident that enterprises are focussed on quality customer intelligence, which they can integrate into their s...
27 March 2019 /ai
Tautvydas Medziukevicius Legal Counsel at Swiipe
The Payment Services Directive (PSD2), introduces new rules on how the payment services are going to be governed. Strong Consumer Authentication (SCA) implements new standards where (Article 97) the payer: (a) accesses its payment account online; (b) initiates an electronic payment transaction; (c) carries out any action through a remote channel w...
26 March 2019 /payments
Sometimes, signs of a broader conceptual technology challenge show up unexpectedly in a very neat, concise package. That was the case this past month when a pair of news items—seemingly contradictory in nature—popped up regarding the implementation of blockchain in the foreign exchange (FX) market, in particular, a massive project within the bank-...
26 March 2019
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