1068 Results from 2020
Retired Member
The relationship between the financial markets and the investor is quietly, but fundamentally, changing. A series of regulatory changes has or will require clients to be treated fairly (TCF), ensure they are better informed (MiFID II), and fully encouraged to participate in the long-term sustainability of the assets they own (SRD II). Each of the
14 January 2020 /wealth /markets Fintech
SMEs play a key role in the global economy. In 2015, enterprises employing fewer than 250 persons represented 99% of all enterprises in the EU. A great number of these organisations, particularly in the agri-food, healthcare and logistics sector, have a daily in- and outflow of goods. While SMEs remain wary of the hype, digitalisation boasts varie...
14 January 2020 /startups Blockchain Observations
Robert McKechnie Head of Products at Equifax
Open Banking, which was brought into inception two years ago, was predicted by many to spark a revolution in consumer finance. However, its full potential remains largely untapped. Open Banking platforms have the capacity to address unmet needs of SMEs, provide better outcomes for those in problem debt, and be at the forefront of the fight against...
13 January 2020
Chris Holmes Senior Vice President at KAE Consulting
In the not-so-distant future, payments are expected to become more or less invisible as our financial processes become more sophisticated and frictionless. Invisible payments take physical payment methods such as cash, debit and credit cards, and wearables completely out of the equation – creating a convenient and speedy experience. We have alread...
13 January 2020 /payments The Payments Business
Paul Marcantonio Head of UK/Western Europe at Ecommpay
Selling things online can be complicated. There are web shops to design, product descriptions to create, and payment methods to set up. The latter is probably the single most important part of the process - for a very simple reason. If your customers can't pay, they won't buy. So how do you accept payments online? Let’s look at it step by step. 1. ...
13 January 2020 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Jeremy Light Co-founder at Fourdotzero
The Original Premiere – The Dot.com Boom Remember the dot.com boom? You need to be over 40 to have direct experience of it from the start, so here’s a recap. It began in the mid-90s with the realisation that the internet was here to stay and a game changer in the way we live and work; leading to a frenzy of start-up companies with new business mode...
13 January 2020 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Steve Wilcockson Product Marketing at Quantexa
I have for some time been aware of companies increasingly submitting code to open source repositories, some quite openly like the hedge funds Man AHL and Two Sigma Investments. Others have jumped on the "cool open source" bandwagon. The subject is frequently discussed on the conference circuit and blogosphere, particularly in data scienc...
11 January 2020 /ai /devops Innovation in Financial Services
Mete Feridun Chair at EMU Centre for Financial Regulation and Risk
On 7 January 2019 the Bank of England (BoE) published a discussion paper (DP) on the way it collects data from financial institutions in response to the June 2019 Future of Finance report undertaken by Huw Van Steenis and commissioned by Mark Carney. Proposing a number of options to improve the timeliness, flexibility, quality and interpretation o...
10 January 2020 /ai /regulation Banking Regulations
There are some big changes in store in 2020, some obvious, some less so. In the payments landscape, it’s all about user convenience and customer experience, whether that’s through increased security for card users, or new ways to pay. Fragmented payments systems and services, from online to in-store, will move towards a unified centralised payment...
10 January 2020 /payments The future of Payments in Europe
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
China has been on a long self-improvement journey and has been tackling all of the areas that could contribute to its global leader status. The financial sector is obviously one of them. Despite the rocky cryptocurrency journey, its efforts to regulate it by issuing government-regulated cryptos and bashing the industry while promoting blockchain, ...
09 January 2020 /inclusion /markets Financial Inclusion
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