1137 Results from 2015
Retired Member
Anyone wise and who wished me well always said “Get the Basics Right”.... Looking back, no one really ever told me why? I mostly figured this out on my own - and many times the hard way. So why are the basics so important? Because the basics never change – Whether it is the basics of math (arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, int...
14 September 2015 /startups
Said Tabet Senior Technology Strategist, CTO Office at Dell EMC
The past few years have seen a wide shift across all kinds of organisations towards harnessing digital technologies. Gartner calls this ‘The Digital Industrial Economy’, where every business wants to become a digital leader and every company a technology company. Whilst this is happening across many industries, the Financial Services (FS) sector i...
14 September 2015 /security /regulation
Jason Ward Senior Director Enterprise, UK & Ireland at EMC
At the start of the year, Deloitte’s Banking Outlook report predicted that in 2015, banks may finally be at the point of boosting profitability, and stepping out of the turbulence of the past six years. With new flight plans set and underway, the banking sector has continued to focus on working faster and smarter to deliver much needed efficienci...
14 September 2015
KYC processes aren’t a competitive differentiator but they are critical processes. However firms are rapidly coming to the conclusion that KYC processes aren’t best done bilaterally. This shift is liberating for organisations seeking a better way. There are a multitude of challenges to streamlining KYC. Firstly, firms have traditionally allocated m...
14 September 2015 /regulation /sibos
Jeremy Light Co-founder at Fourdotzero
Last week I blogged on Bitcoin transactions, commenting on how they are steadily growing. I did not explore what these transactions were for, but one commentator expressed doubt they were for commerce. I searched around and found this interesting infographic which does show a variety of uses in regular commerce, with bed linen appearing to be the ...
14 September 2015 /payments
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
In Beware Of Credit Card Reward Redemption Theft, I'd written about the many occasions in the past when I didn't receive my credit card redemption until I chased the bank in question. In all those cases, the courier company in question seemed to be waiting to decamp with the gifts if I hadn't followed up on their non-receipt. A recent experience m...
13 September 2015 /retail
Abhishek Chatterjee Managing Partner at Gartner Inc.
Recently concluded Apple special September product lunch event was full of announcements. It covered all product segments - iWatch, iPhone, iPadPro, AppleTV. Some of the upgrades are incremental, some are transformational and most importantly some are collaborative in nature to provide the best value to end customer. Here is my view on each of the...
12 September 2015 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
What’s my account balance? How can I make a payment this afternoon? And how are my investments doing right now? These are frequently the daily, and sometimes hourly, needs of today’s financial consumers, and being able to respond to these requests with quick service has become a must for banks. Our dependence on mobile, however, is raising the bar...
11 September 2015 /retail Disruption in Retail Banking
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Darkode anyone? Not anymore. This underground bad hackers’ forum was recently demolished by the FBI, says a report on www.justice.gov. The dozen hackers associated with Darkode are facing criminal charges. Though there are about 800 of such forums, Darkode was among the worst (or shall I say “best”?), presenting a serious threat to worldwide comput...
11 September 2015 /security
Graham Smith Director at Certeco
With yet another banking glitch affecting UK customers last week, the answer to that question must be an emphatic “no”! And with banking failures happening on a seemingly weekly basis, we perhaps should be examining the language they speak more closely. Most of our banks are built on systems and programmed with languages that pre-date the birth of ...
10 September 2015 /retail
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