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What is the ELK Stack? The ELK stack is an acronym used to describe a stack that comprises of three popular projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Often referred to as Elasticsearch, the ELK stack gives you the ability to aggregate logs from all your systems and applications, analyze these logs, and create visualizations for application an...
26 December 2022 /cloud Fintech World
Back in July, I predicted that finance leaders would start to see PayTo make a change in the way you take payments in six to 12 months. Almost exactly six months later, GoCardless has become the first international payments company to connect to the New Payments Platform and accept transactions via PayTo. PayTo is the new way for merchants and b...
23 December 2022 /payments /predictions Frictionless Payments
The National Retail Federation (NRF) forecasts that 2022 holiday retail sales will grow between 6% and 8% over last year, and could reach $960 billion. According to Adobe, U.S. shoppers spent $35.27 billion online overall during Cyber Week, the period from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday. That's a 4% gain over last year at a time when U.S. infla...
20 December 2022 /payments /predictions Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Innovation is enabling new types of payments and creating a truly dynamic ecosystem. Yet in order to create a market where new schemes like account-to-account payments can compete, regulation must play a central role. Payments modernisation is a hot topic right now—and for good reason. New and innovative digital payment technologies and instruments...
16 December 2022 /payments /regulation Fintech
We have been applying analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to fraud prevention solutions for over 20 years. Over this time, the financial services sector has completely transformed, with firms seeking to move away from siloed and disjointed datasets, rapidly digitising and turning to the cloud. But how has this impac...
14 December 2022 /security /crime Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Transaction banking needs bringing into the 21st century. By starting with core banking platforms, banks can rethink how they operate for good, building closer ties with their clients. This blog outlines five key trends: 1. Batch is a burden Consumers expect to check their bank account balances in real time; corporate treasurers want the same fo...
14 December 2022 /cloud /predictions Treasury Management
The new Consumer Duty regulation from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has instigated a period of great change within the financial sector, requiring financial services institutions (FSIs) – from insurers and financial advisors to payment services and technology providers – to comply with a much higher and exacting standard of customer c...
13 December 2022 /regulation /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
APIs provide rapid and scalable applications for banking, payments, and other businesses that require identity verification for AML and KYC compliance. In most countries, some firms are obliged by law to comply with AML and KYC. When such firms authenticate their consumers, APIs may provide a faster, simpler, and less expensive way to comply while ...
13 December 2022 /identity /crime Biometrics
Employee Onboarding effectiveness defines whether your employee will be engaged or disengaged at work, depending on the impression created on them. Poorly managed onboarding can lead to abandonment, especially for youngsters. According to an SHRM article: 69% of employees stay longer with good onboarding A structured onboarding program will make 5...
13 December 2022 /security Biometrics
Information is one of the most important weapons in the armoury of any bank. This is well understood by most institutions, as evidenced by the huge investment they have made in trying to leverage the oceans of data they have at their disposal for commercial benefit. In this endeavour they have not always achieved the success they hoped for. Where ...
12 December 2022 /devops Big Data
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