64 Results from 2015, /startups
Abhishek Chatterjee Managing Partner at Gartner Inc.
Every business is getting disrupted by high speed Internet connectivity, smart mobile devices at low price points and availabilityof digital infrastructure & computing power on demand (CLOUD). This is amplified by the great demographic condition exist today (1st time in the world millennial are more than baby boomers). As we enter the age of c...
29 December 2015 /startups Innovation in Financial Services
Travers Clarke-Walker SVP at Thought Machine
The retail banking landscape in the U.K. has changed dramatically in recent years and it continues to evolve. We have seen the arrival of challenger banks – new, often digital entities focused on customer service and experience – as well as institutions with a more narrow focus, taking one element of finance (such as P2P lending) and doing it well...
21 December 2015 /retail /startups
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
Buy side firms have shown signs of impatience with U.S. equity market structure. While they are leery of radical reforms, institutions have seeded a number of trading venues lately. The topic of buy side firms investing in alternative trading system came up during a recent industry conference discussing 40 years of the National Market System. “Why ...
14 December 2015 /startups
Jason Ward Senior Director Enterprise, UK & Ireland at EMC
For the regular fans of Countryfile that caught the autumn episode on the mating habits of deers, you’ll know that it is peak season. While the links between deer and the financial sector may not initially seem obvious, there are many parallels between this season and the ongoing battle between the established alphas of banking and insurance, and ...
01 December 2015 /startups
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Tinder, 3nder, schminder. Welcome to the new world where non-committal promiscuity is the norm of the day (if not de rigueur), both in personal life and in business. Welcome to the "tinder" world with "tinder" business models. One could say it all started with the "liberation of women" - being less dependent on men (h...
21 November 2015 /startups Innovation in Financial Services
Time to ruffle some feathers. Innovation, payments, fintech - there has been a lot of buzz and commotion there for the past few years. The end result - mostly fizzle. Why? There has been no real problem to solve. That conclusion surprised Rory Cellan-Jones when he interviewed me at the Payment Council's "Payments Innovation" conference l...
14 November 2015 /startups Innovation in Financial Services
I have intentionally kept this short and straight to the point as I would like to hear readers' opinions. Please post a comment below with your thoughts With Crowdfunding (both debt and equity) accounting for approximately $16bn globally in 2015 (Crowdsourcing, 2015) and FinTech being strongly populated with start-ups operating in the Lending space...
13 November 2015 /startups
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
A famous quote from investor Warren Buffet goes along the lines of: "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” I’m going to turn that quote around. Banks, banking and the financial services industry will be transformed (for the better) in the next ten years because someone planted a seed in FinTech ...
09 November 2015 /startups
"If there are innovators who lose, there must be followers / imitators who win" [David Teece] Imagine the situation, a brand new startup or well established firm brings an innovation to an ‘attractive market’ and has the first-mover advantage over many other competitors following closely behind. Despite this, it receives limited success w...
06 November 2015 /startups Innovation in Financial Services
Determining the price for a product or a service is the penultimate question. The money-transfer industry is no different. At present, the remittance industry has more or less the following models for pricing: Regular Pricing – whatever it may be, is an average of the large players operating for that particular remittance corridor Free – send/rece...
04 November 2015 /payments /startups Trends in Financial Services
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