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Hitesh Thakkar

Hitesh Thakkar Technology Evangelist (Financial Technology) at SME - Fintech startups (APAC and Africa)

Stop Loving your bank

Banking services in India has come long way from being BAM (Brick And Mortar) in 80s of ledger based paper transactions to electronic arcades of Core banking, IVR, cards, ATM, Net banking, Cheque and Cash acceptance and processing, Call center, BI...mobile banking, Social media..P2P.. and more from 2000 to 2014 and going towards Digital Banks. All...

Innovation in Financial Services

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Banking on Your Future: BCBS 239

The last financial crisis has taught us many lessons, with one of the most significant being the importance of data risk management. And while the BCBS 239 paper’s 2016 deadline feels like a concern for tomorrow, the threat of another crippling financial disaster is very much a worry for today, and should be motivation enough to get the ball roll...

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Paul Love

Paul Love VP Business Development at Konsentus

Good Old Days of Chip and PIN Vs. The Wild West of FinTech

At the Connecting Payments conference on Wednesday we celebrated 10 years since the successful roll out of Chip & PIN in the UK. This was the largest coordinated shift in consumer payment behaviour since decimalisation, and the celebration was well deserved. The excellent presentations and panel discussions including those directly involved at ...

Innovation in Financial Services

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Eating our own dogfood...

...using the principles of operational excellence for IT The first two blogs of this series examined how we can design from the outset for operational excellence, when given the luxury of doing so, and then moved on to see how we can leverage existing data sources when we don’t have that luxury. In this final blog, I’d like to see what lessons we c...

Tom Hay

Tom Hay Principal Consultant at Payment Systems Europe

PSD2 - The Payments World Turned Upside-Down?

PSD2, the regulation that will replace the current Payment Services Directive, has passed another milestone in its slow march towards legislation, having now entered the “trialogue” process. Adoption into European law in 2015 and transposition into national law by 2016 is possible. Given the magnitude of the changes that it reflects, there has bee...

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Scary Times For Data Security

These are scary times we live in when it comes to data security. And the times are even scarier for today’s retailers, government agencies, financial institutions, and healthcare organisations. The internet has become a battlefield. Criminals are looking to steal trade secrets and personal data for financial gain. Terrorists seek to steal data for...

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Balazs Fejes

Balazs Fejes President Europe and APAC at EPAM Systems

Automation and Digitalization of the Wealth Management Space

There is no doubt that digital innovation has raised the bar in terms of customer experience and expectation across the banking industry. The increased popularity and adoption of social, digital and mobile channels has transformed the banking space, particularly in the corporate and retail sectors, and created an opportunity to provide a broader, ...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Russian Hackers getting rich from your Identity

Where’s the $$$ at? Selling credit card data. Have you heard of the Russian hacking ring that raked in two and a half billion dollars? Check it out: Phishing attacks are lucrative for these cybercriminals. ATM hacks continue to increase, in part due to targeted attacks and new software. Smartphone attacks are on the upswing. There are three way...

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CFOs and the Third Platform of Computing

The profound shift which we have experienced in the advancement of technology in the past five years is clear, and there has been a fundamental change in how consumers, employees and businesses interact with technology. Business technology is no longer just about accessing data from your desktop. It has instead become a way in which to drive effic...

Dirk Kinvig

Dirk Kinvig Web Services Manager at Finextra

Finextra Community Groups

Over at finextra towers, we've undertaken a few tweaks to website. Many of the updates are pretty subtle. However, we've also gotten round to giving the Community Groups a spruce up. If you head over to the Finextra Groups, you'll notice that they are now in line with the look/feel of the majority of the site. The most popular groups (i.e. the on...

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