1068 Results from 2020
Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS
When I need to take a break from being immersed in the business of banking, I like to watch movies. And since the pandemic lockdown, I’ve watched quite a few. Along the way I’ve come to realize that life does indeed imitate art, sometimes in surprising ways. In this blog I’ll take a light-hearted look at drawing parallels between famous movie quot...
03 September 2020 /retail /cloud Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems
The trend in digital banking is one that continues to build momentum. A widely held belief was that there are a number who resist - generally of the older generation – preferring to stick with more traditional banking. Yet recently, McKinsey research has revealed that consumer preference for handling everyday transactions digitally is as high as a...
02 September 2020 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Hannes Van Rensburg Chief Commercial Officer at Clickatell
On the face of it, WeChat is just like any other chat platform. You download the WeChat app onto your mobile phone, register to use the service, and chat with any other subscriber of the service, just like Messenger, WhatsApp, or Telegram. Like other chat apps you can also share files and photos. However, that is where the similarity ends. By regi...
02 September 2020 /payments Asia Financial Services
Retired Member
As summer of 2020 is coming to an end, the DeFi movement is peaking. With ETH up over 70% in July, the total value locked in leading decentralized finance protocols surpassed $7 billion, making it impossible for both crypto and traditional finance industry not to pay attention. As access to the new internet for developers is simplified through too...
01 September 2020 /regulation /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
The Pound has been on a tear lately, surging to a new yearly high against the U.S. dollar. As fears over the global pandemic continue to decline, Sterling entered an uptrend that was seen throughout the entire week. More importantly, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's speech seems to have fueled the buying pressure behind GBP as the U.S...
01 September 2020
John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
I have been doing some informal polling on impact of the EU's latest proposed changes to the existing MiFID II Research regime across various forums in the last few days. As you probably know, these changes would create a narrowly defined exception authorising the joint payment for execution services and research on small-cap (defined as up to a m...
01 September 2020 /regulation /wholesale MiFID
Chandra Shekaran Senior Payments Practitioner, Cards and Payments at Tata Consultancy Services
The payments industry has been in a state of flux for more than a decade. The confluence of changes mandated by the various industry initiatives, growing list of client demands, and the competitive landscape has not only set the foundation for disruptive and inclusive innovation but also increased the complexity of the platforms that support the m...
31 August 2020 /payments Banking Architecture
Saurabha Sahu Senior Solution Consultant at Wipro Limited
Banking industry is going through a massive transition and transformation to get the next generation of tech-savvy individuals on their platforms through various means. Emerging technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR) /Virtual Reality (VR) have been a boon, and a significant contributor to the future of banking by letting banks to create immers...
29 August 2020 /payments /inclusion Innovation in Financial Services
Piers Marais Chief Product Officer at Currencycloud
A much more intelligent person than me once saidthat cryptocurrency is “everything you don’t understand about money combined with everything you don’t understand about computers.” This makes me feel dangerously under-qualified writing this post, but it’s worth having a go, right?! A colleague that I have a lot of time for recently asked me what my...
28 August 2020 /inclusion /crypto Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Artificial Intelligence is the most sought-after innovation in the financial industry after blockchain according to most experts. Based on the current situation in the fintech sphere these two “features” are the only ones that could somehow help a company stand out from the competition. However, they are quickly becoming a stable addition to the r...
28 August 2020 Fintech
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