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Large traditional investment banks, like Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Wells Fargo are under great pressure due to competition from financial Robo-advisors. In such a situation it becomes difficult to justify their fees, far exceeding the costs of services from cheaper investment platforms. This opinion was expressed by Kendra Thompson, mana...
09 February 2016 /payments
Reading the coverage of CES this year, it was possible to draw two conclusions about wearable technology. Firstly, wearable technology is now an established market – a fast-growing segment with lots of innovation that is now much more than just fitness bands and smartwatches. The second is that the variety of “innovations” suggests that wearable t...
09 February 2016 /security /payments
Jeremy Light Co-founder at Fourdotzero
A year ago I published my predictions for the payments landscape in 2015 on my linkedin profile https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jeremylight1. I will publish a summary on how they fared when more statistics are available for 2015, but in the meantime, here are listed my predictions for 2016. They are based on extrapolating observable trends and on pieci...
08 February 2016 /payments
As many have said before, distributed financial technologies in the retail payment space feels like the Internet in the mid-90s with lots of potential and expectation but not a lot of action. And just as the experimenting led to powerful use cases then, we expect to see the same pattern repeat itself with distributed ledgers. To explore this oppor...
05 February 2016 /payments
Alexander Mifsud Co-Founder and CEO at Weavr.io
Everyone knows that just a few years ago banks owned the financial sector. The only way to pay, transfer and save money was via a traditional bank. The reign of the banks was maintained principally due to the fact the industry was highly regulated and therefore an exclusive club of licence holders. As such, it was seemingly immune to the huge ch...
02 February 2016 /payments
Steve Cook Digital Identity & Biometrics Consultant
Many of you feel very strongly about passwords, but the fact is … they have to go because of the large volume of hacks or frauds taking place putting you and also your money at risk! It is true, strong passwords cannot be defeated but the facts are that very rarely do we use them. Companies or your employer insist on them, but in most cases we gene...
29 January 2016 /payments
Vinod Sharma CTO - FinTech Domain at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe
Mobile Money or M-Money refers to financial transactions or services that can be carried out using a mobile device what ever this is but for Payments Revolution; Speed is The King. Very popular phenomena on internet "If you are looking for the next big thing, and you are looking where everyone else is, you are looking in the wrong place"...
28 January 2016 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
What I find interesting of Ripple that I don't read much about is that it basically proposes a "uberization" of the banking system: What corporate users need are funds to make their payments, and those funds do not necessarily come from one bank. I just finished reading a quote from the CEO of DBS Bank that "in the future people wil...
27 January 2016 /payments Transaction Banking
Abstract -: Idea for this post to find out from all of you through comment on the subject what are the views on FinTech park. What sort of story they make or write, what benefits and new services the baby from IoT & FinTech will bring on table for consumers, businesses and entities like banks, MNO and financial services institutions. If you ar...
26 January 2016 /payments Financial Inclusion
Abstract – This article is triggered by real life incidents combined with a high-level overview of mobile financial services and mobile payments. The mobile technologies covered herein are neither new nor a revolutionary innovation; but have been there on this planet for decades though not all of us have been aware or maybe the way I have experien...
25 January 2016 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
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