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Being an entrepreneur is a great thing in itself! It means that you are ready to ditch the 9-5 hectic schedule and ‘rule your own world’; you have a fantabulous idea and are all set to build your own ...
Market participants are naturally worried about the immediate costs of regulation, some of them still uncertain about the future benefits. But with all the twists and turns on the road to regulatory c...
Today, Google has been slapped with a record-breaking €2.4bn fine by European regulators for abusing its dominant position in the world of online shopping. The European Commission said that the search...
Every day companies around the world are finding new and innovative ways of exploiting public cloud technologies. The overall growth of cloud adoption continues to increase at double digit rates and p...
The evidence from a sample of 20 fintech startups in the UK is that there are substantial profitability challenges that still need to be overcome. As of June 2017, the total equity investment in the s...
The argument about if Fintechs and Banks are frenemies would never end. And it’s justifiably so. Retail banks have a model of providing checking, savings, investment account services. Of course, they...
Economics can teach us a few lessons in our approach to technology set-up. From an economic perspective there is a lot of risk in being a producer. It requires commitment to fixed infrastructure — buy...
Its nearly half a century since the famous American science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick wrote the novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", which went on to become the Ridley Scott m...
Financial Services compliance departments are constantly turning to technology to find efficiencies and satisfy increasingly tough regulatory examinations. It started with simple robotics, which can p...
When you ask the business tycoons their success secret- it’s for sure that the answer would be connections! Whether you talk about potential business alliances, marketing, sales, supply chain manageme...
“The current payment networks available to the financial institutions around the world are no longer fit for purpose.” I think that this is a statement that has been generally agreed by all those invo...
As soon as a bank places the corporate customer at the center of its delivery strategy, that bank has to follow the peculiar business dynamics that influence and shape the corporate client’s business ...