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Matthew Swendsen Solution Marketing at Oracle
MP3 Players. Smart Phones. Social Media. These technologies have become so ubiquitous to our daily routine that it’s hard to remember life before them. Yet, all were introduced within the last 20 years and have continued to transform rapidly. Think about your first MP3 player, and then think about how you consume music (and podcasts) today. There ...
13 January 2021 /cloud Digital Insurance Trends
Elliott Limb Chief Customer Officer at Mambu
A return to relationship banking The move away from customer-centric banking was so gradual that we barely noticed it. There was a time when having a personal relationship with your local branch manager who you met with regularly, understood your finances and gave you advice was commonplace. Digital technology changed this, focusing on convenienc...
08 January 2021 /cloud /predictions Innovation in Financial Services
Retired Member
The surge in electronic transaction volumes in 2020 was driven by the switch to contactless card payments and the increase in e-commerce, triggered by the behavioural changes of consumers faced with the COVID19 landscape. Sudden, unpredicted increases in transaction volumes frequently cause problems in the payments infrastructure. The perceived ...
07 January 2021 /payments /cloud The Payments Business
Paul Farrington
December is often a reflective month, when organisations take stock of what’s been achieved over the past year and outline their ambitions for the year ahead. It’s obvious that 2020 has been a year like no other, not just in the world of application security. So how are banks faring and what’s next in 2021? The pandemic caused banks to rethink the...
21 December 2020 /security /cloud Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Laurent Descout CEO at NEO Capital Markets
As we round off what has been a challenging and turbulent year, it is important to look back at the treasury industry changes that we experienced and the lessons and outcomes that we have learned. In this 2020 roundup, we take a look back at some of the most significant technology trends in the digitisation of the treasury industry and how they lo...
21 December 2020 /payments /cloud Treasury Management
Institutions from across the banking sector are turning to digital twinning to help them with a range of challenges. A digital twin is a virtual representation of a real-life entity or system, created in software. Digital twins can take many forms, but the essence is invariably about capturing and using data in a way that accurately mirrors the phy...
16 December 2020 /cloud
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
At the beginning of the pandemic, there were perhaps few institutions that looked less well equipped to function under social distancing than Lloyd’s of London. Synonymous with antiquated practices and the primacy of dealing face-to-face, business at Lloyd’s should have ground to a halt this year. Of course, the reality is that this has not been t...
15 December 2020 /cloud /markets Digital Insurance Trends
"In 2008 the hubris of the financial sector that we serve finally caught up with itself. Mountains of consumer debt that had been packaged, re-sold and deferred turned out to be unserviceable and the whole edifice came tumbling down." I wrote this in a blog sometime ago - it is still true! Now commentators are wondering whether the cyc...
14 December 2020 /payments /cloud Banking Architecture
Darragh Pelly COO at Reitigh Software
Change is the only constant in the financial services sector. This has long been the case; however, the coronavirus crisis has put it on a level like nothing else we have ever seen before. The implications of the pandemic have been far reaching. Falling credit ratings reduced the world of investment grade bonds, face-to-face selling became imposs...
11 December 2020 /regulation /cloud Financial Services Regulation
Amita Choudhary Marketing Manager at Princeton Growth Accelerator
Artificial intelligence is still a rapidly growing field, and we keep discovering many new uses for it in various different spheres. And while it’s not clear how long this growth and progress will continue for, one thing is certain right now – it’s reasonable to expect quite a lot in the coming months of 2020. In fact, we might be at a stage where...
07 December 2020 /cloud Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
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