1077 Results from 2016
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Small countries have many disadvantages - small home markets, small languages, smaller skill pools and smaller resources - to mention a few. But they also have advantages - better opportunities for networking, smaller vested interest groups, better public-private co-operation, better agility - that they can benefit from - subject of course to havi...
11 January 2016 /payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Travers Clarke-Walker SVP at Thought Machine
In an increasingly competitive financial services arena, financial institutions are pressured more than ever to meet the evolving wants and needs of their customers. This stress is putting each institution's technology strategy under the microscope. "Are we delivering market-leading innovation and providing a better customer experience than o...
08 January 2016
Alex Bray AVP, Omni-Channel Acquisition & Servicing at Genpact
New technologies are allowing us to reimagine the entire customer payment experience. In the future, the only mandatory inputs for a transaction will be the merchant’s price and the customer’s acceptance. These will be configured to require minimum effort from a customer. For example, at the most extreme with a low value payment, a customer could p...
08 January 2016 Online Banking
Nanda Kumar CEO at SunTec Business Solutions
The term Internet of Things (IoT) has been used for some time now, referring to the connected nature of our society thanks to smart devices. It’s the communication between machines, sharing information to supposedly make lives easier. Analysts predict that IoT will add economic value of between $4tr and $11tr by the middle of the next decade. A ...
08 January 2016 /retail
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
A group of people who are actively collaborating to commit identity fraud is known as an identity fraud ring. These rings are generally made up of two or more career criminals, often including family members or close friends. These rings work by members either stealing a victim’s identity or sharing personal information such as a date-of-birth or ...
07 January 2016 /security
Retired Member
There is an extraordinary anomaly in the business world, which it seems very few are aware of, but which to anyone with a logical mind must surely seem rather strange. The fact is that whilst firms invest vast amounts in their sales and business development processes, they spend very little on their product management processes. To give that state...
06 January 2016 /regulation
Technology is changing the shape of Britain’s financial services (FS) industry extremely quickly, and 2016 will see the sector make serious steps toward a digital revolution. Here are our key predictions for what the UK’s FS industry and its customers can expect in 2016: Challenger banks will continue to disrupt high street rivals One of the bigge...
06 January 2016
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Welcome back to this first full week of work after the holiday season for most of you. I live in the outer boroughs of Greater London. The leafy idyll that is zone 6 (we have a Nandos and everything). Which means I rely on the train to get to work - Southeastern Rail. This morning my normal 45 minute commute took two hours! (What does this have to...
06 January 2016 /retail
Technology migration projects are sometimes viewed as a major undertaking fraught with risk and uncertainty. However, there comes a point where further investment in old technology isn’t sustainable and this applies in the transfer agency (TA) investment administration market as much as any other. So, what are the commercial drivers for technology...
I was listening to a debate on the radio yesterday morning about the Chinese authorities' inability to keep their financial markets in check. Amidst all the discussion on manufacturing indices, circuit breakers and the like, everyone on the show seemed to be missing the real point. Chinese financial markets are the perfect melting pot for capitali...
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