1148 Results from 2018
Retired Member
You might be excused for thinking that given the remaining Brexit uncertainty, contingency planning is something for policy wonks and lawyers. But this oversimplifies the situation, in particular since the FCA published two consultations on Brexit last week offering an unsentimental and technical analysis. The regulator provides some detailed guid...
22 October 2018 /regulation
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
When you think about financial companies, a domain may be one of the least important features for you. You may want to know more about the “spreads” and the “leverage” if it is a broker. But, like it or not, the financial company is still a company and therefore requires really good branding in order to make marketing an enjoyable process for its ...
22 October 2018 /startups Marketing in Financial Services
Olivier Thirion De Briel
The multi-factor authentication market is experiencing new dynamics. For the last 15 years, strong authentication was not a top of mind concern for organizations and was mainly based on hardware tokens generating one-time passwords (OTPs), a temporary 6 or 8 digit password. The user was required to first generate an OTP on his token and then copy/...
22 October 2018 /ai /security Disruption in Retail Banking
Dean Wallace Director of Consumer Payments Modernisation at ACI
22 October 2018
Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech
So about competition with the star of our previous article — M-PESA. There should be some, right? Safaricom is by far the largest mobile operator in Kenya, with even calls by other operators to declare it dominant. The other telco players are Airtel and Telkom Kenya. See the interview about Kenya — M-PESA story: https://youtu.be/QlZuKwnsAS4 Acros...
22 October 2018 /payments Fintech
Those that know me personally know that I love technology, especially where it improves our lives. My most recent acquisition is a robotic roti maker, and having used it I’m sharing what I learnt and how those learnings can helps banks. Robot Revulsion “Why did you buy this, do you not like my Roti”, was the first reaction of my wife. And after a
22 October 2018 /retail
Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services
We learned on Thursday 18th October 2018, at the launch event of Pay.uk, that any renewal of the UK's retail payments infrastructure will have to wait until after the renewal of the Bank of England's payments infrastructure. This is by far the first instance of the Bank of England standing in the way of innovation, new competitors, new services an...
21 October 2018 /payments Transaction Banking
Revise Payment Service Directive (PSD2) is a new regulation provided by EU Directive, administered by the European Commission (Directorate General Internal Market) to regulate payment services and payment service providers throughout the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA). PSD2 provided enormous opportunities to Banks, Customer...
21 October 2018 /regulation Banking Regulations
Many startups fail not because they are working on their product wrong, but simply because they fail to identify the current needs of the market, and bring out a product that nobody has even asked for in the first place. Contrary to what some think, marketing isn’t just about promotion – it starts at the product design phase, and it’s important to...
20 October 2018 /startups Whatever...
I'm seeing a steady stream of requests for proposals from well-established retail financial services companies looking to replace their core banking platform; front to back - channel to core back end. I’ve been involved in a fair few such transformations over the years as a client, a vendor and an advisor. Across the industry we’ve all seen some s...
19 October 2018
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