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Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions

Banks Or Fintechs: Who Is Ahead?

In Why Banks Will Never Catch Up With Fintechs, I shared my thoughts on why I believe that Banks will never be able to catch up with Fintechs in terms of the User Experience of their websites and apps. (Above post explains the exact difference between bank and fintech.) That post was about the UX of a Financial Services Product. This post is abou...

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Tomasz Blicharz

Tomasz Blicharz BooX Product Marketer at Asseco Poland S.A.

The Business Model tests for cloud banking platform

Taking into consideration the initial set up of the financial institution what business measures (out of the traditional calculated ratios like ROI, IRR, etc.) should be taken into account in the decision: go-not-go to cloud? Is that traditional calculation valid or should we take into consideration new e.g. human behavior patterns and related mea...

/retail /wholesale Cloud Banking out of the Box

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The Economic Imperative of Post Trade Resilience in Capital Markets - Why & How

As the world reflects upon the impact of the last 6 months and starts to revise strategy based upon the ‘new normal’ that it now finds itself in, we look at what C-level leaders should be doing to catalyse change across their middle and back office domains. As the reality of the global pandemic sparked volatility in global markets, many organisatio...

/wholesale /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Kirston Winters

Kirston Winters MD, MarkitSERV at IHS Markit

IBOR transition update: EuroSTR has an August holiday?

After the recent uptick in EuroSTR (a.k.a. €STR) volumes in late July driven by the major CCPs switching from using EONIA to EuroSTR for discounting all Euro OTC interest rate products we looked at August data to see if this was just a blip or whether EuroSTR in fact held its increased share of the market throughout August. In June, prior to the C...

/regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation

Claus Christensen

Claus Christensen CEO at Know Your Customer

3 Principles to Successfully Digitise Corporate Onboarding in Banking

Paper processes used to take days. Digital journeys usually take minutes. Mobile app processes should take seconds. Since mobile technology has entered everyday life, our standards for what constitutes a seamless business interaction has shifted sensibly. In financial services, the introduction of internet and mobile banking has revolutionised o...

/regulation /wholesale Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

John Cant

John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd

Will MiFID research arrangements change again?

I have been doing some informal polling on impact of the EU's latest proposed changes to the existing MiFID II Research regime across various forums in the last few days. As you probably know, these changes would create a narrowly defined exception authorising the joint payment for execution services and research on small-cap (defined as up to a m...

/regulation /wholesale MiFID

Simon Hawtin

Simon Hawtin Marketing Director at ezbob

Lending Post Covid-19: New Data Sources and Technologies

The Covid-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the finances of both UK consumers and companies, with millions struggling to pay their bills on time due to the associated economic lockdown. This has dramatically altered the lending landscape, with a spike in borrowing as businesses turn to lenders to help them mitigate the effects of Covid-19. Accord...

/wholesale /covid-19 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Riccardo Conte

Riccardo Conte Founder at Virtus Flow

Going beyond digitization with back-office process automation

Banking Automation is the future of the financial industry. In 2017 McKinsey [1] reported that newer technologies were causing disruption in financial institutions and that companies adopting digital alternatives would increase their profits and productivity as a result. Accenture [2], reported that digitally focused and digitally active banks ha...

/retail /wholesale Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Olivier Gazon

Olivier Gazon CEO at Sustainable Base Finance

Innovative commercial finance underwriting can profitably ignite economic recovery

The current economic slump creates a trade finance paradox: Banks do not grant new credit limits, tight be regulatory constraints. Credit insurers face deep losses on traditional credit insurance schemes. Credit reinsurers have substantial reinsurance capacity available but cannot place it. The result: major losses for all parties. Heading towar...

/wholesale /covid-19 Financial Supply Chain

Ron Cogburn

Ron Cogburn CEO at Exela Technologies

Data Has Endless Value, If You Know How to Use It

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.” Sherlock Holmes This is a repost from my recent article for the Forbes Technology Council; Data is one of the most valuable resources that can be acquired today. You’ve probably heard the phrase “Data is the new oil.” In fact, data has the potential to be much more valuable, and more vers...

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