Jonathan Shanks CEO and co-Founder at Appvia
The fintech industry as we know it wouldn’t exist without the cloud. No financial app, comparison website or any of the other numerous innovations we’ve seen emerge from the last decade would be possible without it. Given its intrinsic value to fintechs, it is perhaps surprising that very few are using the most cost effective solution. Millions in...
26 August 2020 /cloud /devops Innovation in Financial Services
Lyndon Hedderly Director, Customer Solutions at Confluent
Many tech stocks continue their meteoric rise, despite the worsening economic downturn. On Wednesday this week Apple became Wall Street's first $2tn company. In my last Finextra article I mentioned that Apple, along with the other big four, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook, now make up a quarter of the S&P 500. We are seeing new investm...
24 August 2020 /retail /cloud Banking Architecture
Roel Jansen SaaS Solutions Marketing at Temenos
About a decade ago banks started adopting cloud technology. At first, they were very careful, and it included lengthy discussions with conservative regulators and anxious security officers. Later banks took significant steps to leverage cloud technology. However, does the cloud deliver on its promise of lower infrastructure costs, better integrati...
19 August 2020 /retail /cloud Fintech
Shawn Hughes
For many, 2020 feels like a dream or at least like everything we once knew is being challenged. If FinTech leaders don’t reassess their understanding of the world’s relationship with financial services and adapt to this new reality, failure may be lurking around the corner. Conversely, if FinTech leaders pivot and continue forging innovative paths...
18 August 2020 /cloud /covid-19 Operational Risk Management
Amita Choudhary Marketing Manager at Princeton Growth Accelerator
Artificial intelligence has started to take over many industries by storm. Its impact is easy to see in many fields already, and it’s very likely that we’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg. The future potential for major changes is huge, and fields like insurance have started to take particular advantage of what AI has to offer. And while it wi...
17 August 2020 /cloud Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Retired Member
Mergers and acquisitions hold promise for owners and investors of combinatorial synergies to reduce costs, increase profit, extend market and product coverage, as well as accelerate innovation. 2020 has been a banner year for mergers and acquisitions, with 5500 deals so far. This record volume may be partially due to the Covid-19 outbreak forcing t...
06 August 2020 /cloud /startups Fintech
Junta Nakai Global Industry Leader - Financial Services at Databricks
ESG is a Data and AI problem The benefits of incorporating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) within business targets are well understood by companies and regulators, and especially investors. Research shows a quarter of all fund investors planned to increase holdings in the sustainable sector over the next half year. Organisations lookin...
04 August 2020 /sustainable /cloud Big Data
John Cragg Chief Executive Officer at MYHSM
Last year, Thales announced the latest version of its payShield product family, the 10K. Since MYHSM’s inception we’ve been using the Thales 9000 for some of our services and were aware that a new model was on its way, but we were confident in Thales’ track record of ensuring backwards compatibility of the API. Turns out we were right! However, we...
29 July 2020 /payments /cloud Fintech
Kanika Hope Chief Strategy Officer at Temenos
This year’s Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)’s report “Forging new frontiers: advanced technologies will revolutionize banking” based on a global survey of over 300 senior banking executives, highlights the role of new technologies in driving the digital transformation of banks in the coming years to help them gain competitive advantage, as they
20 July 2020 /cloud /covid-19 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd
Regulatory distribution is systemically broken The conventional way governments distribute rules for use by citizens, businesses, other private actors and for the institutions of government is through documents and other forms of content. As highlighted in an earlier paper “The Dangerous Risk of Interactions with Regulation”[i], the use of docume...
16 July 2020 /regulation /cloud Fintech innovation and startups
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