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Hamza Khan

Hamza Khan Founder and CEO at Suburbia

Elevating trust with lessons from the past

In 1852, Elisha Otis invented the safety elevator. If the hoisting rope broke, its safety mechanism automatically brought it to a halt – as he demonstrated to dramatic effect at the 1854 world fair. As detailed in Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator, the American inventor stood on a platform high above the audience, before making the order ...

/retail Fintech innovation and startups

Sray Agarwal

Sray Agarwal Specialist - AI and ML at Publicis Sapient

Fair AI: How to Detect and Remove Bias from Financial Services AI Models

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) promise a smarter, more automated future for everyone. But the algorithms that underpin these technologies are at risk of bias, a substantial threat that could undermine their entire purpose. What exactly is AI bias, why is it important for financial services (FS) firms to avoid it and how can ...

/ai /retail Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

e-id - central part of banking services - huge growth in Finland

The banking sector is doing in practical terms all the strong e-ID transactions needed in Finland. There are some 3 600 organizations and all of the public sector using this services (dating back to the early 90s..). Central bank statistics reveal continuing strong growth also in 2018: 2014: 56,2 million times 2015: 69,4 2016: 84,7 2017: 100,9 (a s...

/retail Digital Banking Trends

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Demise of cash speeding up in Finland

A population of 5,5m (and some tourists) produced the following ATM volumes: Million times/billion €s: 2014: 145,1 million times/14,4billion € 2015: 137,1m/13,9bn 2016: 124,3m/13,0bn 2017: 12,1bn€ 2018: 11,4bn€ (out of which 0,2 billion with foreign cards) 2019: still over 10bn? 2000€/citizen. For no good reason.. So the rate of decline of €s is 18...

/payments /retail Digital Banking Trends

Retired Member

Retired Member 

Open Banking Transaction Categorisation Mythbusting

This is the first part of a two-part series covering all things categorisation. Part one will cover the what, why and some of the how with part two going deeper on the technical nitty-gritty of how we approach categorisation at Credit Kudos. Let’s start by defining what we mean by categorisation. The term categorisation is used to describe the cl

/retail Open Banking

Joris Lochy

Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever

Will the cumbersome administrative tasks for your financials finally be a thing of the past?

PFM, BFM, Financial Butler, Financial Cockpit, Account Aggregator…​ - Will the cumbersome administrative tasks on your financials finally be taken over by your financial institution? 1. Introduction Personal Financial Management (PFM) refers to the software that helps users manage their money (budget, save and spend money). Therefore, it is oft

/retail Personal Finance

Dmitrii Barbasura

Dmitrii Barbasura Chief Operating Officer at Fintech Galaxy

TPP identification via non-dedicated PSD2 interfaces

According to the RTS on SCA and CSC (Article 34. Certificates), payment service providers shall rely on eIDAS certificates for third party providers’ (TPPs’) identification. There are 2 types of PSD2 eIDAS certificates and each of them plays an important role: QWAC (qualified certificate for website authentication) - is used for website authenti...

/regulation /retail Banking Regulations

Rik Coeckelbergs

Rik Coeckelbergs Independent Advisor, Opinion Maker and Consultant at The Banking Scene

When your real estate agent decides to become a bank

Originally posted on Medium on August 2nd, 2019. Some time ago I referred to Hello bank! as a bank that found out that they are very well positioned to become their customer’s real estate manager. They integrated immovlan.be, a real estate website, in their platform to help their clients to look for a house. This week, I witnessed an initiative ...

/retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Andrew Stevens

Andrew Stevens Global banking and financial services specialist at Quadient

The CMA’s latest customer satisfaction in banking survey

The Competition and Markets Authority has published its latest personal banking service quality report. The survey asked UK current account holders how likely they would be to recommend their provider to a friend, relative or other business. When the CMA launched this report six months ago, it seemed a natural fit when most customers rated a bank w...

/retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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Retired Member 

Bigger Banks are here to stay

Banking Is More Than Software Disruption is the current name of the game. The promise is it will upturn any economic sector that’s not sufficiently hip to the new ways of doing business. In some cases that has certainly been true. Uber has taken its toll on traditional taxicab companies. Airbnb has altered the hotel and bed-and-breakfast sectors. ...

/retail Digital Banking, Mortgages and Savings

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