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Bo Harald

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

ChatGTP quite good at shortening my earlier post

Governments and enterprises will adopt a global trust infrastructure, resulting in citizens and organizations receiving general-purpose identity wallets that can obtain, deliver, and pass on verified data for a wide range of life events based on MyData.org principles. The architecture is outlined in trustoverip.org, and the trust layer in the ar

/retail /identity Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

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

Proud of the Nordics - worried about the Single Market

I have been acting as an independent advisor for the Findyconsortium in Finland (now the public-private Findynet co-operative) since it started in 2018. It aims at implementing a trust infrastructure based on Self-Sovereign Identity and the Trust over IP architecture. Here all citizens, all organisations and many things will get general purpose fa...

/retail /identity Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

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

Opportunities and Responsibilities for the Finance Sector in the Trust Infrastructure

1. Trust infrastructure As the benefits for building a global trust infrastructure are so massive (3-6% of GDP according to McKinsey), it is clear that governments will be strongly committed to drive the migration and that enterprises will start to see the enormous benefits they can achieve (as outlined in 5 major categories in Self-Sovereig...

/payments /retail Digital Banking Trends

Bo Harald

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

My e-Journey - looking forward. Part 9. European interoperable trust infrastructure platform

I had thought that my stories would advance in chronological order - but notice that so many rungs and rail composites from the early e-ladders are important in the next ones - that I keep moving back and forth. I hope it still makes sense. At this point I cannot stay away from looking to the next concrete platform - the interoperable European Trus...

/retail /identity Data sharing

Bo Harald

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

My e-Journey - over 40 years. Part 8. It is the economy, stupid..

As I wrote in the first post, my interest for digitalisation started off from trying to automate more work in the backoffices. Then it moved to convenience for e-banking customers > not having to send or receive invoice snailmail and keeing in lenghty details when paying. It then jumped back to productivity when the Finnish public sector calcula...

/retail /predictions Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

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

Ladders galore

An often repeated experience on my journey has been that one thing leads to another, which leads to another and so it goes. You may have a hunch about what these may add up to - but seldom a very clear picture or a plan. So get going - and start with what many need often (preferably same logic, user experience and tool) at home and at work - and ke...

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Bo Harald

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

My e-Journey - over 40 years. Part 6. Towards a new e-world

I have a few more parts in mind. Candidates - time permitting - include: Ladders galore, Productivity impact high level evaluation, Life events as starting point for service design, Single Market leap, Sustainability impact and Leadership observations. Lesson learned: Writing may help you to use what has been done right and what failed when looking...

/identity /predictions Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

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

My e-Journey - over 40 years. Part 5. Mobile rungs in the ladder and Mobey Forum

The first rung in the mobile services ladder was the word syntheziser for pushbutton telephone payments created in -82. Once mobile phones - the next rung - started to appear you could use them to make wireless payments. An advertisement has a man sitting on the ice - fishing with a bulky Nokia drag-around mobile phone next to him. The next rung ...

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Bo Harald

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

My e-Journey - over 40 years. Part 4. Going Nordic

Banking in Finland was hit very hard by an economic recession of unseen proportions in the early 90s. One unfortunate aspect was that local banks before that had hastily been deregulated and massed into commercial lending without the needed experience. This might still have been manageable - but the unrealistic attempts to keep the Finnish Markka ...

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Bo Harald

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

My e-Journey - over 40 years. Part 3. Interconnecting customers

Especially in the Nordea Bank stage we started to think that the then 4 million strong e-Banking user habit and trust should be reused for other interaction purposes than traditional payments and other banking services. With 10 million private and 1 million corporate customers there must be an enormous customer and societal value in interacting al...

/retail /identity Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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