1077 Results from 2016
Retired Member
At a reception with Asia/Pac exchanges hosted by BT yesterday, one of the topics of discussion among the attendees was, as so often, that of latency. While investment firms, exchanges and vendors have spent massive amounts of effort focusing on the technology involved - the "T" in "IT" - thinking is now moving forward around t...
27 January 2016
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
What I find interesting of Ripple that I don't read much about is that it basically proposes a "uberization" of the banking system: What corporate users need are funds to make their payments, and those funds do not necessarily come from one bank. I just finished reading a quote from the CEO of DBS Bank that "in the future people wil...
27 January 2016 /payments Transaction Banking
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Wow cool! A device that lets you know, via Internet, when your milk is beginning to sour! And a connected thermostat—turning the heat up remotely an hour before you get home to save money…and “smart” fitness monitors, baby monitors, watches… Slow down. Don’t buy a single smart device until you ask yourself these 10 questions. And frankly, there’s a...
26 January 2016 /security
The complete recipe for a financial services app that stands out from the crowd So, you want to design a financial services app. But how do you make it stand out from the thousands of others already in the market? From our experience, customer centricity is the key, where by ‘customer’ we mean ‘real people’. Technical components influence speed an...
26 January 2016 /retail
Vinod Sharma CTO - FinTech Domain at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe
Abstract -: Idea for this post to find out from all of you through comment on the subject what are the views on FinTech park. What sort of story they make or write, what benefits and new services the baby from IoT & FinTech will bring on table for consumers, businesses and entities like banks, MNO and financial services institutions. If you ar...
26 January 2016 /payments Financial Inclusion
Abstract – This article is triggered by real life incidents combined with a high-level overview of mobile financial services and mobile payments. The mobile technologies covered herein are neither new nor a revolutionary innovation; but have been there on this planet for decades though not all of us have been aware or maybe the way I have experien...
25 January 2016 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Dean Wallace Director of Consumer Payments Modernisation at ACI
It’s Monday morning, I’m in A&E. Not a usual scenario, but with young kids tearing around they do tend to bash into things now and then. So here I am, in the waiting room, my son with a fat lip, and we're both BORED. “I know, I’ll have a cup of coffee” I think to myself, “How cool, they have put contactless on the vending machine and are a
25 January 2016 /payments
Third party risk management is making headlines and for some very good reasons. Why? Structural factors are forcing a complete rethink of current practices. Financial institutions and third parties are each facing their own challenges as third party risk management receives greater focus than ever before. Factor #1: RELIANCE There is an increase...
25 January 2016 /security /regulation
The PSD2 (Payments Services Directive 2) and Open API (application programming interface) standards in banking will come into force in the UK (and the wider EU) within two years. The UK Government is backing these initiatives with the aim to provide consumers with more secure, less expensive and easy-to-use financial services. These developments w...
25 January 2016 /payments /regulation
By Hakim Mendjeli , 4by90 consulting So far, not much disruption... There is much talk about disruption and challenger banks. But there is currently little evidence of anything disruptive in the pipeline. Obviously, most haven’t even got their banking licenses yet and haven’t launched, hence it is hard to provide a final opinion on the matter. And...
25 January 2016 Disruption in Retail Banking
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