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Kunal Patel

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Open Banking - Consumer Impact

I have read quite a lot on Open Banking over the last couple of years, what it means to the industry, the players and more importantly the consumer. The revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) is required to be implemented in the UK by 13 January 2018. This will definitely change the banking experience, bringing with it more competition and innov...

05 December 2017 /retail Open Banking

What's It Really Like Working For FinTech Start-ups?

I get asked this question a lot by the corporate community with whom I am typically engaged with, usually this would comprise of senior figures from the BFSI community. The people I am usually in conversation with have never worked for a start-up, let alone have had any professional dealings with any. For those that know me well, I am not short of...

13 November 2017 /startups Fintech

Innovation Labs, Hackathons and Accelerators - Fad or Fab?

There has been a tremendous amount of debate as to whether innovation labs, hackathons or accelerators are indeed a success or just another way to garner public attention. The FinTech world has been awash with a lot of hype over the last 3-4 years but those working at a product/solution level see things very differently. As someone who is heavily ...

02 November 2017 /retail Innovation in Financial Services

Is The FinTech Bubble About to Burst?

It’s been well documented that the financial services industry needed some form of disruption and a move away from the traditional models. The industry as we know it has become too out-dated in the modern, digital world that we now live in. True product innovation, improved customer UX/UI were always going to be a problem for large financial insti...

05 October 2017 Fintech innovation and startups

Blockchain: It’s a solution; now what’s the problem?

I felt compelled to write something about the so-called Blockchain hype that we’re seeing today and to provide an alternative viewpoint. It’s a buzzword dominating the BFSI world and beyond and is seen as some form of saviour to a lot of different problems that exist today. The pros & cons have been well documented, either in white papers, arti...

29 September 2017 Fintech

Digitised Banking is Now... Digital Banking is the Future

The intention of this short article is not to talk about digital banking being the future, we all know it is and will be. I do feel there needs to be a clear distinction between what we're seeing now, what we'll see in the future and terminology. There has been a lot written about digital transformation and quite rightly so, if one industry is in d...

24 September 2017 /retail Digital Banking Trends

FinTech vs. TechFin

As someone who has worked within the FinTech scene for the past 3 years now, I've seen a lot of ups and downs. The industry continues to grow, even amid the challenging regulatory environments. I attended a conference in Malaysia in July 2017, I heard one of the presenters talk about TechFin. The term was coined by Jack Ma a year or so back and I s...

13 September 2017 Fintech

Mobile Wallets - Is The Future Rosy?

Mobile wallets have been talked about for years, I've lost count at the number of reports I've read citing that mobile wallets will dominate the world and that your traditional wallet will be replaced by an app on your smartphone. The UK and Europe My first foray into the mobile wallet world was way back in 2012, working for the European based Tele...

24 May 2017 /payments

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