1026 Results from 2017
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Swift is best known for being expressive and concise, and with the latest available update, i.e., Swift 4, with attributes like backward source code compatibility, an efficient bug tracker, mailing lists, and regular development builds, pursuing iOS development becomes easier and faster. It also makes programming more fun. However, in the wake of ...
19 July 2017 Business Knowledge for IT
The financial services industry is going through an almost unprecedented period of change. Whether political, regulatory, societal and technological, a range of forces have been at work to shift the landscape for good. Politically, it’s fair to say that the world has been dealt its fair share of turbulence in recent months, with Brexit, as well as ...
19 July 2017 /regulation /retail Innovation in Financial Services
In a world where everything has gone digital, and according to a statement made back in 2011, by the highly successful entrepreneur and investor, Marc Andreessen - "Software is eating the world" Why do people want to fill out a form with a pen? Over the past 6-12 months I have onboarded/opened accounts with the following products/services...
19 July 2017 /regulation Digital Banking Trends
A few years after Bautista closed his business I casually met him in a cafe nearby the Town Hall. After saying hello to him and asking how were things going (not very well, I must say) we started talking about his business and why he had closed it down. He said that he did not understand why the Town Hall passed a law to promote competition in fin
18 July 2017 /payments /regulation Online Banking
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
I recently read the following tweet: "After Banks figure this out and do something with eKYC, they will realize that people are not ready to pay MDR, want privacy" (https://twitter.com/logic/status/833642760456376320) I replied back pointing out that: "But Merchants pay MDR, not Consumers!" (https://twitter.com/s_ketharaman/stat...
18 July 2017 /payments
Charles Platt President, EMEA at SAP Fioneer
The Star Wars universe is filled with annoying robots; they are terrible workers, nervous, inattentive and sloppy. There is a good reason behind that. For George Lucas, it seems these flawed robots were created as a plot device to justify armies of human clones. Ironically, he had to give his robots “human” qualities to justify increasing headcoun...
18 July 2017 Capital Markets Technology
The Payments Services Directive 2 (PSD2) is shaking up the industry, and for good reason. There is sometimes a tendency for the payments ecosystem to expect doom and gloom when it comes to new regulation; seeing it as restrictive, unnecessary interference, or costly. The reality is that PSD2, along with other regulatory changes across Europe and t...
17 July 2017 /payments /regulation Transaction Banking
As the volume and market share of online payments explodes, are AML efforts keeping pace? The volume of online payments is skyrocketing. Worldwide, retail ecommerce sales reached $1.915 trillion in 2016 – nearly a 24% growth rate over 2015. This number is expected to continue to grow in 2017. eMarketer estimates that online retail now accounts for...
17 July 2017 /payments /regulation
Digital transformation has become an overused term across all industries, but a lot of organisations are still missing out on opportunities to use digital to differentiate themselves from competitors. Many still struggle to adopt new digital technologies and techniques quickly enough, and to respond to rapidly changing customer demands. The best w...
17 July 2017
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
Trade finance is increasingly becoming the number one use case for blockchain with the greatest potential to benefit from this technology. In previously blocks I already showed the accelerated activity in this area (see: Blockchain and Supply Chain Finance: the missing link May 7, 2017 and Blockchain: accelerated activity in trade Finance, January...
16 July 2017
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