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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Two rivers becoming one..

The rapidly swelling data river (MyData, Big Data, Open Data, structured and unstructured) and the service design river namely. In the Real Time Economy program (2006-) we have seen important progress towards getting financial and administrative data digitalised into structured and standardised form moving increasingly into real time. This is als...

/ai Digital Banking Trends

Steve Wilcockson

Steve Wilcockson Technical Product Marketing at Quantexa

Embracing alternative data: a three-stage approach for portfolio managers

In the quest for alpha, a growing number of portfolio managers have been exploring the esoteric world of alternative data. Some forms, such as sentiment data based on terabytes of news texts and social media, are well established and have matured to the point of securing devoted followings. Other forms, such as satellite imagery that sheds light on...

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It is about time

Last Friday, ESMA finally published its long anticipated call for evidence on periodic auctions. Periodic auctions became popular in 2017 and even more so through 2018 and so they are often linked to the introduction of MiFID II. While some opponents lambasted them as a cynical attempt to avoid the double volume cap, supporters have pointed out th...

/regulation MiFID

Lu Zurawski

Lu Zurawski founder, iKnowMe at Lu Zurawski

Open Banking and the magic illusion of 24x7 availability

“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” The wisdom in this old adage appears to ring true when applied to the early phases of the evolution of Open Banking (or open payments). Especially when you contrast it with the early days of ATM withdrawals; particularly those made in the dead of night so you could pay cash for your after-par

/payments Open Banking

Anthony Pickup

Anthony Pickup Consultant at Capgemini Invent

Bio-metrics lowering friction in payments

Reading an article of linking facial recognition systems to in-store payments made me think about where next for biometrics in payments in the real world[1]. Payments at the highest level is one entity the ‘payer’ presenting funds to another entity the ‘payee’. There are then four key processes for each payment for it to be successful: Payer and ...

/payments Biometrics

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Fintech and Travel - the Perfect Match

Fintech is expanding rapidly, and many companies around the world have wised up to the fact that they need to be more accepting of modern payment methods and technologies. We’re seeing some great developments in this regard, and it’s clear that this trend is going to continue with full force in the next years. Those who take full advantage of it a...

Fintech

Kunal Patel

Kunal Patel Product Manager at 1E

Digital Transformation - It's Not All About Technology

Digital transformation is nothing new, in fact it’s probably one of the most talked about subjects I have ever come across, there are differing opinions on what the priorities are. I have been involved in a number of digital transformation projects myself, and I can see where some of the challenges are, esp. in the targeted larger organisations t...

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Howard Berg

Howard Berg Senior V President,North and Central Europe, BPS at Gemalto DIS

Biometric Payment Cards: The Next Payment Revolution

Over the last 20 years, biometric technology has permeated our everyday lives whether we’ve realised it or not. We’ve been scanning our prints and faces at border control and using Apple’s Touch ID and facial recognition features on our smartphones, through to using our fingertips to get access to highly secure buildings. Despite this, biometric s...

/payments

Mohan Raj

Mohan Raj Senior Manager at Genpact Ltd

AI in Customer Experience Transformation

Customer experience transformation has been around for more than a decade. It was widely popular in retail industry which was quick to recognize Customer experience as a competitive differentiator. The concept gained traction across consumer facing domains notably consumer banking, E-commerce, Hi-Tech. Companies have spent millions of dollars in t...

/ai Disruption in Retail Banking

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Where will you end up in the fourth industrial revolution?

At Sibos this year I noticed a lot of references in keynote sessions to the Fourth Wave of the Industrial Revolution, the ensuing shake-up of the jobs market, and how this would apply to the financial services sector. The World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution is doing a lot of research in this area, and its Future of

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