1148 Results from 2018
Steve Cook Head of Business Development at ID R&D
2018 will be all about Digital Identity. I am sure everyone is aware that the revised EU Payment Services Directive (known as PSD2) comes into force later on this week. Within the new PSD2 regulations, there is Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) and Common and Secure Communication (CSC), regarding all electronic payments, under Article 98 of th...
09 January 2018 /payments Digital Banking Trends
Henry Hilska Managing Principal at Convexity Solutions
Over the past several years blockchain has been expected to greatly impact the way assets are exchanged and to reduce the operational costs to banks and other entities in various industries. As is often the case, the hype surrounding a potentially transformative technology has out-paced the ability to quickly deliver on these expectations. This i...
09 January 2018 Innovation in Financial Services
Jeremy Light Co-founder at Fourdotzero
A key measure of the size of the Bitcoin network is the hash rate*, the combined computing power of the miners operating the network. If the value of a network is dependent on its size, we should expect a correlation between Bitcoin's market capitalisation (the total number of bitcoins in existence x the price) and its hash rate, and for this to h...
08 January 2018 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
As the new year gets into its stride, I can see the insurance industry heading in some exciting directions. The starting point is how the last twelve or more months have witnessed Insurtech and Data Analytics make big inroads. However, the year ahead will be about how those ideas and blueprints are turned into more concrete outcomes for insure
08 January 2018 /ai Fintech
Retired Member
So 2017 is over, and it has been an action packed year for blockchain. I started publishing a monthly round-up of Blockchain in Action from June 2017, and I can say that the number of stories of blockchain in action has only increased with very interesting use cases and applications. In this post, I am sharing a curated list of the stories from De...
08 January 2018 Fintech
Nick Ogden Chairman at Ogden Research
One interesting option is through the SETsquared Entrepreneur Programme for Tech Start-ups which has its next 2-day programme in Guildford - 1st and 2nd February 2018. SETsquared is the world's largest university based business incubator and has supported over 1,000 hi-tech start-ups to develop and raise more than £1.25bn of investment This progr
08 January 2018 /startups Fintech innovation and startups
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
While the blockchain theme in Italy is spreading across a growing number of events and publications, there are vast pockets of business entities- from small to large- that still totally ignore it. For these companies a continuous activity of information and diffusion remains necessary. There are- on the other side- fewer companies that have unders...
07 January 2018 Innovation in Financial Services
Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd
Just as a reminder, Complex Knowledge is any combination of regulatory, statutory, legal, tax, tariff, policy and procedure matter, which is primarily found within documents. USE CASE: HOUSEHOLDER PLANNING PERMISSION (continued) Preparing the Complex Knowledge from Monologue to Dialogue In context to the earlier defined scope, the knowledge wa...
05 January 2018 /ai /regulation Finance 2.0
Vishwanath Thanalapatti Analytics at Temenos
Open Banking is the exciting new kid in the block; the epitome of financial information that will be a benefit to the financial institutions and consumers alike. This is the API universe. Literally with the flood gates for information open, the fintechs have a playground with sky as the limit. What next in Blockchain? This is a great opportunity ...
04 January 2018 Open Banking
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
You might be shocked to know that when Social Security numbers were first given in the 1930s, the intention was never to use them as a form of identification. However, most of us use our Social Security numbers all of the time, from doing transactions at the bank to visiting our doctor’s office. You need your SSN to apply for jobs, to open credit ...
04 January 2018 /security
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