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Public cloud adoption in financial services: Part II, Regulation and Compliance

In the first of this series I outlined the key challenges and opportunities presented to financial services (FS) organisations adopting public cloud technology. In this second article, I continue by d...

19 Sep 2017
A Finextra Member

Why Banks Should Reinvent Banking in the Era of Platform Economy - Part 1

“Why it's simply impassible! Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through th...

18 Sep 2017
Futuristic Banking
James Barret

The Equifax Debacle: An Alarm Bell for Banks?

Watching the Equifax debacle unfold has been a bit like watching a badly written coming of age story - just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does. The plot has certainly thickened as it has ...

18 Sep 2017
Information Security
A Finextra Member

AI, Blockchain and Cloud Banking’s va va voom

Artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and cloud technologies are increasingly appearing on the horizon. This could be exactly what the doctor, or banker ordered given the legal mandates for open ba...

18 Sep 2017
Digital Banking Trends
Carlo R.W. De Meijer

Regulation of ICOs: the end or beginning of a healthy market?

One of the hottest – and also one of the most controversial – things in the crypto currency environment are so-called Initial Coin Offerings or ICOs. ICOs, which employ the use of crypto currencies,...

17 Sep 2017
Chris Brown

Who else will eat the banks' lunch?

An industry has built up due to the inability of banks to work together directly. PayPal ($70.7B) first came into existence to add a layer of ease and security to the card schemes because the card sc...

15 Sep 2017
Fintech
Freddie McMahon

CHATBOTS AND THE DIGITAL AGILE AGING MARKET

At a recent Microsoft UK, Local Government Partner event, there was some excellent insight on the Digital Agile Aging Market. The key note speaker Ian Spero, Founder of the Agile Aging Alliance, rec...

15 Sep 2017
Futuristic Banking
A Finextra Member

Who didn’t hear about Equifax? Actually, quite a lot of people

It was nearly impossible to avoid the media coverage, and subsequent public outrage surrounding the data breach at credit reporting agency Equifax, which left 143 million people potentially exposed to...

15 Sep 2017
Data Protection Act Issues
Bo Harald

Banks are the enablers for mass market e-invocing

Finland as an example (2016 figs): - all SMEs use e-/mobile banking and e-invoicing is a standard feature as out of some 250k enterprises 217k have signed up for sending and 234 for receiving structur...

14 Sep 2017
Electronic invoicing
Luke Trigg

The future of financial contract documentation

The legal industry is ripe for an injection of modern technology and that has not gone unnoticed by myriad start-ups all vying to bring the revolution. Creating better ways of doing things is often th...

14 Sep 2017
Fintech innovation and startups
Rami Alame

Navigating the financial storms with a legal lifeboat

A high level of regulatory change continues to buffet a financial services industry already trying as hard as it can to stay afloat in choppy economic waters. To describe the industry as overstretched...

13 Sep 2017
Fintech innovation and startups
A Finextra Member

Digital Bill of Lading The Future of Trade in Block Chain Ocean

In today’s Global Digital Village our Passport is accepted across the Countries and data is stored digital in immigration check. VISA and Master Cards are truly digital for payments. Then why not the ...

13 Sep 2017
Futuristic Banking

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