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Charles Platt President, EMEA at SAP Fioneer
Making major financial decisions is often emotive. Empowering users to make the right choices is possible if the best information is provided to them through a clear and effective user interface. Bringing together elements of data to underpin the decision, and user experience to manage the process, is the heart of experience management (XM). Banks...
24 July 2019 Innovation in Financial Services
There is a dichotomy at the heart of talent shows like Pop Idol. Catapulting inexperienced people into the mainstream music business, controlled by distributors rather than producers, typically leads to short-lived success - at best. In the banking world, the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) will come into effect in January, 2018, allowing ...
11 October 2017 /regulation Business Knowledge for IT
The Star Wars universe is filled with annoying robots; they are terrible workers, nervous, inattentive and sloppy. There is a good reason behind that. For George Lucas, it seems these flawed robots were created as a plot device to justify armies of human clones. Ironically, he had to give his robots “human” qualities to justify increasing headcoun...
18 July 2017 Capital Markets Technology
Economics can teach us a few lessons in our approach to technology set-up. From an economic perspective there is a lot of risk in being a producer. It requires commitment to fixed infrastructure — buying it, setting it up and maintaining it — in order to develop the assets to sell. Product diversity requires further expenditure on fixed infrastruct...
26 June 2017 /regulation Banking Architecture
It’s crunch time for the Big Data crunchers. Having lavished millions of dollars on data scientists to search for patterns in a deluge of digital information, banks and financial institutions need to start doing something to make that newfound intel pay. The question is, what? Big Data - the bits and bytes of everyday life harvested from our increa...
25 April 2017 Capital Markets Technology
Choppy regulatory waters and unprecedented political volatility will result in a more pragmatic approach from capital markets firms in 2017, even as they innovate into robo capabilities, automation and blockchain. Here are my predictions for capital markets in 2017: Embrace Volatility With elections in France, Germany and the Netherlands, Europe wi...
22 December 2016 /retail
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