Retired Member
The relationship between the financial markets and the investor is quietly, but fundamentally, changing. A series of regulatory changes has or will require clients to be treated fairly (TCF), ensure they are better informed (MiFID II), and fully encouraged to participate in the long-term sustainability of the assets they own (SRD II). Each of the
14 January 2020 /wealth /markets Fintech
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
China has been on a long self-improvement journey and has been tackling all of the areas that could contribute to its global leader status. The financial sector is obviously one of them. Despite the rocky cryptocurrency journey, its efforts to regulate it by issuing government-regulated cryptos and bashing the industry while promoting blockchain, ...
09 January 2020 /inclusion /markets Financial Inclusion
Rowland Park CEO at Limeglass Limited
We are living in an age of information overload where businesses are swamped with information from all angles. What happens when companies don’t use information in the best way possible? Rowland Park and Simon Gregory, co-founders of next-generation financial research technology company, Limeglass, argue that the true cost of not optimising financ...
08 January 2020 /markets Fintech
CSD Regulation (CSDR), was first published into the official journal by ESMA in August 2014 aimed at improving securities trade settlement in the European Union on EU central securities depositories. Although some predict further delay in implementation, it is scheduled to come into force in September 2020, more than six years since it was first t...
07 January 2020 /regulation /markets Trends in Financial Services
Geofencing marketing is a location based marketing approach in which companies uses GPS, Wif-Fi or cellular data to set-up a programmed system in which when a mobile device enters / exits a virtual boundary, a geofence is created around that location. Companies can use geofence to send display ads/offers and other push notifications to their cust...
03 January 2020 /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
An information advantage has become one of the most important competitive edges in the financial markets today. Receiving the right data, faster than competitors, is a significant driver of performance. However, while firms invested over $50 billion in 2019 into market data[1], investment in technology to make the consumption of financial research...
16 December 2019 /markets Fintech
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
In September 2019, the world’s oldest insurance marketplace made yet another announcement about how it would transform itself for the future. The announcement of the Lloyd’s Blueprint One had been well signalled when Lloyd’s announced the Future of Lloyd’s Prospectus back in May. This was followed by a consultation exercise that wrapped up in July...
13 December 2019 /markets Fintech
Alex Kreger Founder & CEO at UXDA
This year, Apple celebrates ten years since the iPhone launch. We can all agree that it changed the world in which we live. But, ten years ago, just a few months after the presentation of the iPhone, Forbes appeared with the title on the cover: "Nokia. One billion customers - can anyone catch the cell phone king?" Nobody was expecting wh...
05 October 2017 /retail /markets Innovation in Financial Services
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