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Konstantin Rabin

Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik

Goldman Sachs on its way to dominating the fintech market

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...

/inclusion Fintech

Yagneswara Sarma Bulusu

Yagneswara Sarma Bulusu Consulting Partner at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.,

The Great Custodian Bank Shake-up Part 1: Blockchain to Rewire Custodial Operations

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...

/markets Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services

Vivek Iyer

Vivek Iyer Consulting Partner at Tata Consultancy Services

Leveraging Data in Commercial Lending

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...

/wholesale Analytics in Banking

Rodrigo Zepeda

Rodrigo Zepeda CEO at Storm-7 Consulting Limited

Persons with Significant Control: PSCs

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...

/crime Law and Finance

Carlo R.W. De Meijer

Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA

Crypto regulation in the Western world: towards more global uniformity?

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...

/crypto Blockchain Observations

Bernd Richter

Bernd Richter SVP - FIS Impact Ventures at FIS

Payments as a service - a new normal future of payments?

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...

/payments /cloud Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

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Retired Member 

Is this an early 'April Fool' story?

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?"

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What a joke

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'.

Konstantin Rabin

Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik

Largest online lending technology investments of 2019

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...

/startups Fintech

Joris Lochy

Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever

PSD2 - 10 questions requiring an answer - Here is a shot on an answer.

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 ...

/payments SEPA and European Payments

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