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Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
As the new year gets into its stride, I can see the insurance industry heading in some exciting directions. The starting point is how the last twelve or more months have witnessed Insurtech and Data Analytics make big inroads. However, the year ahead will be about how those ideas and blueprints are turned into more concrete outcomes for insure
08 January 2018 /ai
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So 2017 is over, and it has been an action packed year for blockchain. I started publishing a monthly round-up of Blockchain in Action from June 2017, and I can say that the number of stories of blockchain in action has only increased with very interesting use cases and applications. In this post, I am sharing a curated list of the stories from De...
08 January 2018
Patrick Coomans @intersection of cybersecurity & entrepreneurship at Tsundoku Ventures
It’s simple: the probability of being under cyber attack is 100%. From a Cyber Defense perspective, you have to be right all the time, at the contrary your adversary has to be right only once. Due to the nature of API’s, and their application in a financial context, the impact of exploiting a vulnerability could be huge. Imagine a flaw would let a...
20 December 2017 /security
Patrick Chambeau Director of Marketing at IPC
The life of a trader has evolved significantly over the last few years. Previously managing data from one or two channels of communication, technological advancements and the rise of modern day communication platforms, such as social media, are now forcing traders to consider growing volumes of data from multiple sources all needing to be captured...
08 December 2017
I got a call from a trusted chum who has been a wonderful source of advice and inspiration to me in building our non-bank for the credit impaired. He is London-based, progressive, innovative and fearless. He also knows a thing or two about creating brands, with a globally successful one of his own. “Have you thought about doing a bitcoin debit c...
06 December 2017
One more month down in 2017, and the blockchain momentum is only accelerating with many more interesting applications and use cases across all industries, all geographies and all sizes of organizations. In this post I am sharing a round-up of some of the interesting stories of blockchain in action for Nov 2017. Former Credit Suisse and UBS execs...
05 December 2017
Carl Rogers Director at Finceler8
In the last few years I have been mentoring multiple early stage fintech companies through accelerator programs as well as directly. Although I should not be I am continually surprised to learn that few companies at this stage put as much effort into sales as they do on product and funding, especially in the B2B space. Whilst it is clear you need ...
30 November 2017 /startups
On 22nd November, the UK government reaffirmed its commitment to having a leading regulatory and technology environment in the UK. Within the Autumn Budget 2017 speech, the Rt Hon Philip Hammond announced a new £10bn Regulators’ Pioneer Fund, established to “help regulators to develop innovative approaches aimed at getting new products and service...
29 November 2017 /regulation /startups
Imagine taking a regular smartphone and turning it into a payment acceptance device with a simple app download. That’s the utopian dream many companies are chasing today and it could bring huge benefits to the payments ecosystem, merchants and consumers as card and mobile payments continue to grow. For small transactions, accepting a payment could...
29 November 2017 /payments
During the last decade the term “cloud” has become a mainstream keyword in most of IT topics. The cloud has changed the way institutions and companies are managing their needs. As a concept, when discussing regarding the cloud is actually talking about moving away from the product purchase orientation towards a service delivery one. Hence, custo
27 November 2017 /startups
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