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Reflecting on recent capital markets events, meetings and discussions in London, New York, Frankfurt, Paris, Zurich - almost everybody immediately understood the value created by standardization for t...
In the financial services industry, where IT systems are high-volume and mission-critical, news of Big Iron’s ‘big crisis’ is greatly exaggerated, at least for now. It’s true that in today’s digital f...
In an earlier blog (“Blockchain is looking for Scale: a Balancing Act, Part I + II, 18 June 2018) I showed how the blockchain world was trying to solve the scalability issue. There I concluded tha...
When my employer posted me to Germany in the early 2000s to open its subsidiary for the so-called D-A-CH (German speaking) market of Europe, we had no reference customer in Germany. When prospects wou...
Time to read: 5 minutes to gain a different perspective // Open Banking: A Rebel Without a Cause? // There is a heretic in our midst… : : Is Open Banking trying to address a problem that does not exi...
As consumer expectations towards digital user experience are increasing, more and more banks are striving to provide great customer experience on their digital banking channels – online, mobile, and t...
The general consensus amongst API providers is that we should build reusable APIs, but consumers want more - they want an API that gives them everything they need. These tactics challenge one another
Facebook Security Breach Exposes Accounts of 50 Million Users https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/technology/facebook-hack-data-breach.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage Wil...
We’re all going overboard with the AI boom and the hype cycle. Problem with all hype cycles is that when we’re at peak the horizon looks beautiful and when the slide begins the avalanches tear apart e...
OK, so here's the opening admission. I don't 'get' Quantum, yet. It's one of those fundamentals in physics which is hard to grasp beyond the basic, two concurrent states in one space/time. I guess I a...
The nationalization of Banks in 1969 paved the way for growth of banking business in the country with improvement in economy. Banking was perceived as a lucrative white collar job with security and re...
Since every major step forward in process efficiencies, in any industry, entails a moral consideration, it's no surprise that there may be some hesitation around its adoption in the financial services...