1068 Results from 2020
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
2019 saw a lot of big companies getting into fintech and trying to develop their own innovations or invest in the right startups across the world. We’ve seen some companies do it right and many do it very wrong. It is a shaky industry in terms of what works and what doesn’t. When companies like Goldman and Sachs decide to go into something that d...
21 January 2020 /inclusion Fintech
Yagneswara Sarma Bulusu Consulting Partner at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.,
Abstract Custodian banks are facing a slew of challenges such as cost pressures, operational inefficiencies, and aging legacy applications. Disruptive digital technologies such as blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and intelligent automation systems such as cognitive computing tools and decision...
21 January 2020 /markets Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Vivek Iyer Consulting Partner at Tata Consultancy Services
Digital Transformation in Commercial Lending is proceeding apace with banks rolling out initiatives in multiple areas like Re-imagining customer experience, Empowering Relationship Managers, and adopting Intelligent Automation techniques. Leveraging data analytics across the lending life cycle can be a key enabler in each of these areas. Leading B...
20 January 2020 /wholesale Analytics in Banking
Rodrigo Zepeda CEO at Storm-7 Consulting Limited
From 30th June 2016 the ‘People with Significant Control’ Companies House register went live. This means that certain United Kingdom (UK) companies, Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs), Societas Europaea (SE), and Eligible Scottish Partnerships (ESPs) are required to record certain details of their beneficial ownership. The idea is simple, by ma...
20 January 2020 /crime Law and Finance
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
In my last Blog I suggested that regulation of the crypto markets would be one of the main issues for 2020 and beyond. There seem to be urgent need for more clarity on many cryptocurrency issues. The EU Fifth ALM Directive came into effect early January, while ESMA announced its plans to develop a legal framework for cryptocurrencies in 2020. In t...
20 January 2020 /crypto Blockchain Observations
Bernd Richter SVP - FIS Impact Ventures at FIS
Banks are increasingly outsourcing their core payments platform technology and operations. What seemed in past years far fetched even to consider has become a viable option. Is Payments as a Service (PaaS) on the brink of becoming the new normal for banks as technology-focused payments service providers are winning more and larger in scope mandate...
19 January 2020 /payments /cloud Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Retired Member
A gaming company moving into banking? Is this really what the world of Financial Services needs? Odious creeps selling the social cancer of gambling into another aspect of our lives? What will their marketing campaign look like? "Time to pay back that loan Mr Wong, or would you like to double or quits?"
19 January 2020
Lloyd Dorman must be spinning in his super yacht! The entire management team of Travelex (a name that will forever sound like a treatment for travellers diarrhoea) should resign in shame. FX must be code for 'Fxxk up'.
A big part of why fintechs are taking up so much of the space in the financial industry is because of their lending practices. Online lending technology combines all the positive attributes that fintechs have and banks lack and allows for people with bad credit to access loans and possibly get out of the bad financial cycle. 2019 was a big year fo...
18 January 2020 /startups Fintech
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
A bit more than 3 months ago, I submitted the blog "PSD2 - 10 questions I would like to see a clear answer on" (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/psd2-10-questions-i-would-like-see-clear-answer-joris-lochy/), raising 10 questions around PSD2, on which I was searching an answer on. Via different channels, I got requests of many people, that ...
16 January 2020 /payments SEPA and European Payments
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