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Note - This is in context to banking channels in India. Is there a way to maximise earnings from Savings Account? This is my first post, so I will start with a basic idea – Savings account. It is usua...
Every day, several trillion dollars of securities are traded around the world, often executed in fast-moving volatile markets, as we have seen this week. Between 2000 and 2013, the size of the debt ma...
Today, banks are facing many challenges, not just high fees and lack of transparency, but competition from emerging fintech companies who are entering the market with modern applications and innovativ...
Have you’ve ever visited India? How did you cope with the traffic there? It’s clearly different to the regular, organized approach we are used to in Europe. After spending a couple of days in Bangalo
To deliver the level of quality expected from an organisation in today’s consumer-prioritized environment, banks are not only having to adapt to the evolving needs of the customer, but also to new reg...
Last week I was invited to Lisbon to attend Diebold Nixdorf’s (DN) International Management Seminar (IMS) 2018 - ‘Revitalising Retail Banking Agility’. This was the 31st IMS and comprised 120 guests, ...
Guess what would be the most popular way to make payments in mobile Africa, in highly developed East Africa, in the upcoming West Africa? Don’t kid yourself, it is still cash. But the thing is that t...
Let’s work backwards. Most banks know that the final deadline to comply with PSD2’s Regulatory Technical Standard (RTS) is 14th September 2019. Eleven months away. Following the amendments to the RTS,...
Can SWIFT GPI act as a saviour to correspondent banking which is facing extinction due to disruptive Blockchain payments- RippleNet? Both systems have its pros and cons. It is up to financial institut...
In today financial markets, compliance officers face a haystack of digital information to sift through, for the needles that indicate market abuse or misbehaviour. The question is, how to find those n...
This is a follow-up of my previous post entitled "Hot topics at the 2018 Sibos Standards Forum in Sydney, Australia". Sydney will once again be the home of Sibos from 22 till 25 October 2018...
At Sibos 2014 in Boston blockchain was the talk of the show and the movement towards adoption of new technologies was up and running. As Sibos 2018 opens in Sydney, APIs and open banking based on thei...