1023 Results from 2017
Alexandre Neves Manager at Capgemini Financial Services
On 23 June 2016, UK has expressed the democratic will of leaving European Union. The outcome of Brexit referendum initiated the process that terminates the deep and special relationship between UK and EU. This relationship started in 1973, when UK joined the European Economic Community. Now, UK is expected to leave EU by March 2019, two years afte...
07 November 2017 /retail Trends in Financial Services
Retired Member
As European regulatory bodies encourage firms to embrace the cloud, it’s time to take a look at some of the benefits, concerns, and myths of archiving electronic communications in the cloud. Historically, a typical bank’s policy to running applications and storing data was they were all located on-premises. Public cloud services simply weren’t used...
07 November 2017 /security /regulation Business Knowledge for IT
It’s no surprise to anyone in the financial community that SIBOS is by far the most relevant global networking event of the year. Not only was Toronto a great city to host it this year but open banking was the topic many of us were keen to see if there was interest from the banking and fintech community. At this SIBOS I was invited by SWIFT to be ...
06 November 2017 /sibos Open Banking
Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services
Brexit negotiations resume this week with the UK government reportedly going to cave in to a bill of EUR60 billion in exchange for a trade deal, their not having worked out how detrimental the current trade deal is to the UK. Over and above the £30 billion per annum net cost to the UK exchequer of providing public services to the 3.6 million EU eco...
06 November 2017
Paul Irvine Director, Major Accounts UK&I at Fortinet
Mainframes and their use at modern enterprises are seen by many as outdated legacy IT systems that are becoming more and more obsolete as businesses are becoming increasingly reliant on the cloud. However, these notions are not entirely accurate. In reality, mainframe computing remains alive and well within many infrastructure-critical industrie...
06 November 2017 /security Information Security
We have learned a lot about how not to do consent from Hollywood and the Fashion industry. Consent has to be explicit, have a clear affirmative statement and action of intent that cannot be misinterpreted, given clearly, specific and informed. In May 2018, individuals “are given legal rights over their own data”. As Open banking is going across m...
06 November 2017 /regulation Open Banking
Have you heard of DBS bank? Not many have. It is no surprise really, as its mission is to make banking invisible. A feat it is well on the way to achieving. Damn Bloody Slow The bank was formed in 1968 as the Development Bank of Singapore and is now known as DBS. It offers retail, corporate and investment services to 7 million customers throughout...
05 November 2017 Open Banking
A number of major financial institutions are continuing to innovate with their cardless ATM capabilities, allowing customers to withdraw money from an ATM using a mobile app to initiate the transaction. Large banks are taking a number of approaches to cardless ATMs transactions, including enabling customers to log in to their banking app with their...
03 November 2017 /payments
Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd
Juniper Research believes the emergent evidence from using Chatbots has the potential to replace the tasks of targeted human workers through fluent conversations with human users. They believe that Chatbots will undertake the following key tasks: Handle conversational interactions with human users Seamlessly handoff to human agents Trigger autom...
03 November 2017 /ai /regulation Fintech
As we move towards the end of 2017 , the blockchain buzz is only heating up with unique and interesting applications and use cases across all industries, all geographies and all sizes of organizations. In this post I am sharing a round-up of some of the interesting stories of blockchain in action for Oct 2017. BP experiments with blockchain for ...
03 November 2017 Fintech
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