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How the rise of artificial intelligence will affect the FS industry

Earlier this year, it was reported that an artificial intelligence (AI) robot called Libratus won $1.5m worth of chips from four of the world’s top poker players in a three-week challenge. Whilst this might be seen as a crushing defeat for mankind, it is a huge leap for AI. Machine learning isn’t a brand new concept and when we look specifically a...

21 July 2017

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Data and Reporting - a Financial Services Help or Hindrance?

The past few years have seen the financial services undergo a period of unprecedented change. While trying to keep up with the ever-changing demands of consumers, FS organisations are also facing a barrage of increasingly granular reporting requirements. Many are struggling to keep up – August saw G20 leaders issued a second warning that some jur...

20 September 2016 /regulation

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Cyber and finance: Why bank CTOs need to get going

The past few years have seen banks playing catch up to the technological disruption which has unfolded across all industries. While the fintech sector is booming, many larger banks are still lacking the agility to respond to the fast-paced adoption of IoT, mobile and cloud technologies. Some see this as the end of traditional banking. The Telegrap...

22 April 2016 /security

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The Challenge of Implementing New Technologies

The majority of financial sector organisations have started to recognise the need to implement new technologies. In recent months big retail banks around the globe have publically adopted the next big innovation, Apple Pay; while a new generation of FS Tech start-ups are surging forwards to either make banks more robust and efficient, or put the i...

01 February 2016 /regulation

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Tackling Regulation and Ensuring Financial Services Organisations are Compliant

2016 is set to be another milestone year in financial services. New challengers in and beyond the sector are launching disruptive innovations that are threating the traditional players in the market in areas like payments and loans. At the same time, a number of regulatory changes are also set to challenge organisations as they work to ensure the...

17 December 2015

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Black Friday: Should we be worried about our transactions?

The Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend marks one of the busiest shopping periods in the UK. The tradition, which originated in the US, where it follows Thanksgiving Thursday, arrived in the UK a few years ago. This year, it falls on the 27th November. While many shoppers are getting excited about bargain deals, not all UK retailers are happy ab...

26 November 2015 /retail

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Why a 'Clandestine cloud culture' is threatening FS data

The past few years have seen a wide shift across all kinds of organisations towards harnessing digital technologies. Gartner calls this ‘The Digital Industrial Economy’, where every business wants to become a digital leader and every company a technology company. Whilst this is happening across many industries, the Financial Services (FS) sector i...

14 September 2015 /security /regulation

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The three key considerations for tackling cyber-attacks in the financial sector

Cybersecurity has become one of the top agenda points for every boardroom in the financial services industry and we're starting to see the appointment of more chief risk officers, along with those appointed rising through the executive ranks. Alongside this shift, cyber attacks are taking place on a daily basis, and most financial services organis...

31 July 2015 /security /regulation

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Seven key guiding principles for delivering PaaS to drive innovation in Financial Services

At a recent meeting of technical leaders in the financial services community, we picked up on a previous discussion around Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and how, under continuous pressure to evolve and keep up with fierce competition, organisations within the financial services sector need to continuously adapt to meet – and even exceed - customer a...

13 July 2015

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Six things financial services technical leaders need to consider around open source software

At a recent meeting of technical leaders in the financial services community, we hosted a rich and vibrant discussion around the role of open source in their community. There was a wide ranging consensus and a number of key areas of focus emerged. The broader context is that businesses in general are increasingly moving to an open source first mod...

05 June 2015

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