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Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Latest thinking in respect to Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation. Harnessing our collective wisdom to make banking better. Ambrish Parmar

Ray Connolly

Ray Connolly Vice President of Sales at SQL Power Group

Revolutionizing Financial Supervision: Why Regulators Need a One-Stop SupTech Solution

In today's rapidly evolving financial landscape, central banks and financial regulators face mounting challenges. The need for real-time data analysis, proactive risk management, and seamless regulatory compliance has never been greater. A comprehensive, out-of-the-box supervisory technology (SupTech) platform offers a transformative opportunity f...

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Igor Kostyuchenok

Igor Kostyuchenok SVP of Engineering at Mbanq

An Open Letter to Incumbent Banks

Dear European Incumbents, this an open letter to you from a founder of a FinTech startup. You've been watching the Neobanks like Revolut and N26 acquiring customers in your jurisdiction at a relatively high rate but you weren't worried since most of your customers stayed with you. You have the reputation, you're too big to fail and even you will ...

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Igor Kostyuchenok

Igor Kostyuchenok SVP of Engineering at Mbanq

Build an Ecosystem or Disappear

The world of banking is at the verge of big changes that most incumbents are desperately trying to ignore. They see the change coming, they realize that their inactivity will cost them their existense but they are choosing to play dead. It's easier to cut the jobs and walk out with the bonuses then to start acting to still be relevant in 5-10 year...

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Sergiy Fitsak

Sergiy Fitsak Managing Director, Fintech Expert at Softjourn

Can AI Really Code? What Fintech Leaders Should Know

AI-assisted coding tools have added incredible momentum to software development. As the Managing Director of a software development company, many of my teams use AI coding tools daily. They help my teams build faster, remove tedious manual work, and prototype new ideas quickly. In the fintech industry, where innovation cycles are tightening, AI’s ...

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Indra Chourasia

Indra Chourasia Industry Advisor at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Regulatory Compliance: Looking through AI lenses in times of regulatory divergences

Uncertainty adding new regulatory drift Amid the increased unpredictability of economic policies affecting the business landscape, the recent optimism about regulatory reforms and deregulation, expected to bring relief from the burden of onerous compliance, seems to be gradually fading out. While the costs and complexities in managing the carryove...

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Satya Samal

Satya Samal Partner, Financial Services at IBM

From Outages to Resilience: Rethinking Banks’ IT Operations

In March, the Treasury Committee delivered worrying news. Since January 2023, the top nine banks faced 33 days of unplanned outages. This excludes the payday system crash in February, which makes matters worse. These IT failures dominated headlines just as the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) came into force earlier this year. What’s cau...

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Prashant Bansal

Prashant Bansal Sr. Principal Consultant at Oracle

Resilience at Scale: Understanding and Implementing the Circuit Breaker Pattern in Microservices

Resilience at Scale: Understanding and Implementing the Circuit Breaker Pattern in Microservices In the evolving landscape of financial services, where milliseconds matter and system reliability is non-negotiable, modern software architecture must accommodate resilience by design. Distributed systems—particularly those employing microservices—are i...

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Joris Lochy

Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever

Conway’s Law in Financial Services: The Silent Force Behind IT Complexity

In many financial institutions, architecture teams serve as central advisory units, overseeing multiple projects and defining architectural standards. These teams often include various specialists—enterprise, solution, integration, and security architects—each responsible for reviewing, amending, and validating proposed solutions. However, this l

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Joris Lochy

Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever

Account Portability in Banking: Complex, But Not Impossible

In the telecom world, number portability has long been a reality. You can switch mobile providers without losing your phone number — a change that radically transformed the industry. It made switching carriers seamless, eliminating the hassle of informing contacts about a new number. This one innovation significantly boosted customer mobility and

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Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

How Gen AI and Automation Can Help Banks Absorb Chargeback Surge

Chargeback requests have been a feature of retail banking for years but in the last 12 months there has been a tidal surge of customer requests. Research firm, Datos Insights, discovered customers disputed $11 billion worth of charges in the U.S. in 2023 alone, with this forecast to rise 40% by 2026. Other countries are seeing similar sharp increa...

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