Samarth Shekhar Regional Manager EMEA at SixThirty Ventures
The huge spend required for some of the compliance programs for European banks seems set to divide banks into two extremes: - small and medium banks who simply cannot afford it, and may decide to get out of certain businesses or buy outsourced services - big banks who can: and may even end up making money selling white-labelled services to the &quo...
08 May 2012
European banks are teeming with legacy platforms- inflexible, expensive, long time-to-market and ageing skilled workforce. Providers and package vendors who propose to change this are stuck given the budget situation. Is it time for a "return your old car and get a discount on a shiny new one" scheme? Here is the vicious circle: bank nee...
01 May 2012
What's keeping Head of Payments/Cash Management at European banks awake at night? I take a first shot - no hard feelings- and request readers to add on: 1.) Some bloke in the boardroom asks me how we are leveraging the information around payments transactions. 2.) Fast forward 3 years- searching for "Head of Payments" on job sites yields...
22 April 2012 /payments
European banks will need to start building a growth momentum to get them out of the sustained downturn. What are IT decision-makers and IT providers doing to help rev-up the GROWTH engine? What IT initiatives would you put YOUR euros on? Given that European leaders have not pulled a night-out in Brussels since December 2011, one may think the worst...
09 April 2012
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