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Kunal Patel

Kunal Patel Product Director at Worldpay

FinTech vs. TechFin

As someone who has worked within the FinTech scene for the past 3 years now, I've seen a lot of ups and downs. The industry continues to grow, even amid the challenging regulatory environments. I attended a conference in Malaysia in July 2017, I heard one of the presenters talk about TechFin. The term was coined by Jack Ma a year or so back and I s...

Fintech

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Open Banking: Open for Business or Closed to Progress?

The future of banking is indisputably Open Banking. Open in all senses of the word: transparency, ease of access to information and a place at the table for new market players. Open for everyone, without exception. A straightforward concept in theory, with several underlying practical complexities: The first: the overall playing field. With the te...

Online Banking

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Why SFTR compliance is an opportunity for greater data insight

The introduction of the Securities Finance Transaction Reporting (SFTR) directive, will give financial institutions an ideal opportunity to consolidate and improve their approach to data management. However, will firms take advantage of this opportunity? With a multitude of other priorities and an uncertain deadline, it is clear that the focus of ...

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Paul Miserez

Paul Miserez Standards Department at SWIFT

New technologies and business standards

At the occasion of the 2017 Standards Forum to be held at Sibos in Toronto, Canada from 16 to 19 October, I interviewed a number of SWIFT standards experts about the content of this year's programme. During the coming weeks, my posts will offer readers a sneak-preview of what people can expect to hear about in Toronto. During recent Standards For...

Standards Forum

Anthony Walton

Anthony Walton CEO at Iliad Solutions

World Economics Forum, analysis of the outlook for Fintech

The World Economic Forum has just completed one of the most thoroughgoing studies into the effect of fintech on the financial services industry. Although ‘Beyond Fintech: A Pragmatic Assessment of Disruptive Potential in Financial Services’ isn’t the most imaginative title, the study contains over 150 interviews and accounts of ten international w...

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Why you’ll never be ready for MiFID II

I attended an excellent conference last week that brought together senior executives from the buy-side, the sell-side, venues and technology firms to debate and make sense of our industry. Naturally much of the conversation revolved around the new conditional dark pool venues, periodic auctions and Systematic Internalisers that are emerging. A num...

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Henri Wajsblat

Henri Wajsblat Financial Services Expert at Anaplan

How Banks Can Thrive in an Uncertain World

The one certainty in the financial services sector today is that banks will be operating in an uncertain environment for the foreseeable future. Markets are volatile. Regulations are fast-evolving. The political environment is unstable. And customer demands are shifting. But there’s also good news — technology can help banks weather the uncertaint...

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Key Considerations for Payment Providers in a Cross-Border World

While there’s no template that works for all businesses when it comes to cross-border eCommerce strategy, there are certain key themes that seem to crop up again and again when discussing with colleagues, partners and clients. I want to share these – given the continuing interest in cross-border expansion – and the implications from a payments per...

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Financial Crime Compliance Benefits of Blockchain and DLT

Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technology? Digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are what most people think of when they hear “blockchain”, but alternative uses for blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) have taken mainstage as of late. At this point, you might already be asking: What exactly is blockchain? What is Distri

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Anjani Kumar

Anjani Kumar Principal Consultant - FS Risk & Compliance at Infosys Limited

To truly transform KYC and AML operations adopt AI and ML...

In an earlier article entitled “The unquenched longing for a transformed KYC-AML solution” I had talked about the key challenges that financial institutions (FIs) have been facing with regards to their current Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) operations. In order to overcome these considerable and lingering challenges, it h...

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