Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
The Baby Boomer generation (i.e. the generation born between 1946 and 1964 - so between 55-75 years old) is retiring in record numbers. In the US alone, about 10.000 baby boomers will retire every day. Such an enormous retirement wave will have enormous impacts on the economy: An enormous amount of jobs will need to be replaced, resulting in a va...
09 June 2020 /wealth /retail Capital Markets Technology
With the word "tech" in Fintech, there is automatically a strong focus on technology in this sector. As a result, we tend to think that the biggest cost of a Fintech company is in building and maintaining the underlying software (tech) solution. In some bottom-up organized firms, which are usually built on top of an open-source core produ...
03 June 2020 /sustainable /startups Fintech innovation and startups
Hypes and marketing buzz words are strongly present in the IT landscape. Often these are existing concepts, which have evolved technologically and are then renamed to a new term, as if it were a brand new technology or concept. If you want to understand and assess these new trends, it is important to reduce the concepts to their essence and compare...
18 May 2020 /devops Banking Architecture
For companies a financial balance sheet (i.e. the statement of the financial position at a certain date) is common practice and for the majority of companies even mandatory to create one as part of their annual reporting. In such a balance the assets are put against the liabilities, with the sum of the assets always equal to the sum of the liabilit...
05 May 2020 /wealth /retail Trends in Financial Services
In most industries there is an evolution from pre-paid to post-paid, i.e. instead of having to acquire products or pay costly subscriptions or licenses upfront (with a lot of unnecessary features), there is a tendency to pay more based on usage. This trend of "Everything as a Service" is converting massively CapEx into OpEx, which financ...
20 April 2020 /payments /retail Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
In today’s design of (software) solutions, providing a frictionless user experience is (and should be) a top priority within every organization. While payments have already gone through a major evolutioneliminating much of the frictions (from cash payments to card payments up to contactless card payments and mobile payments), the entire checkout pr...
06 April 2020 /payments /retail Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Almost every recent article written about banking starts with the statement that the banking industry is being disrupted by new competitors, new innovations and new technologies. Although this statement is definitely true, the extend of the disruption can still be debated. Even the most innovative neo-banks still work with bank (current, saving, te...
23 March 2020 /retail Electronic Bank Account Management
In August 2019, I wrote a blog post on PFM tools called "PFM, BFM, Financial Butler, Financial Cockpit… - Will the cumbersome administrative tasks on your financials finally be taken over?". Since then, driven by the go-live of PSD2 and Open Banking APIs, numerous Fintechs are developing new solutions acting as your personal financial b...
08 March 2020 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
In the current digital world, we are continuously digitally transacting with companies all over the world. Each transaction leaves a digital trace, allowing the company (in case of litigation) to prove you, as the user, have explicitly accepted the transaction. However, as you have probably noticed while surfing on the internet, confirming a trans...
24 February 2020 /security Digital Identity Management
In recent years, the usage of the term "Financial Inclusion" has risen exponentially. As with any buzzword, it is used and misused by many companies to boost their corporate image and get support from different governments (e.g. subsidies). As with so many buzzwords, the term has become so much overloaded, that it now encompasses a wide ...
10 February 2020 /sustainable /inclusion Financial Inclusion
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