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One of the difficulties in stepping into a red-hot technology space is you’re not sure what to expect. As you’re grappling with unexpected technical curve balls what if your own stakeholders beat you ...
I read a lot of debates happening on the web and at coffee breaks and even at the company senior stakeholder meetings about applied AI is around the corner and the revolution will sweep away the way w...
Equity rounds have been the main talk of the fintech industry in recent months, but that might be changing soon. A financial startup, Klarna, recently reported that they’ve been able to raise signific...
Three months have passed since the day GDPR came into effect, May 25th, 2018. The noise around new terms and conditions has died down, and astonishingly we are still non-European firms and web sites
As the clock counts down to when Financial Institutions (FIs) must be ready for external testing for PSD2 open banking it is interesting to see how ready, or not, all other parties are in the value ch...
The UK financial sector is the latest industry to be facing a Brexit challenge as EU negotiators feel that the recently proposed plans would prevent the bloc from being able to make autonomous decisio...
While researching on potential use cases of a Gig economy I stumbled upon an article that narrated the story of potential of a Gig Economy or Gig culture in an organisation. The author narrated a scen...
There seems to be no shortage of news around cybercrime and fraud at financial services institutions. The latest involves a security breach at one of the oldest cooperative banks in India. Within 24 ...
In today’s digital world, data is at the heart of every business. The increased use of technology means that companies now produce and process more data than ever before. Until recently, however, that...
As we enter a new era of open banking, we see customers empowered by PSD2 and GDPR, enjoying increased control over their personal account data. While the focus of attention has centred on the power s...
No, I don’t mean that DNA testing or biometrics necessarily have to be part of every security system, for every financial services firm out there. What I do want to explore, is how financial services ...
At banks, the customer onboarding process is the lowest hanging fruit. You need to make sure the entire organization understands how important it is to prioritize an onboarding program, and how the ex...