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Mark Kanji

Mark Kanji Loyalive CEO and founder at Loyalive

Why the loyalty market is ripe for disruption...

Many believe that the loyal customer is a dying breed. And in an age where countless savings can be found online and budget retailers offer tempting discounts, who can really blame them? Recent figures show that 24 per cent of UK families switched their main supermarket in the last year alone, with customers constantly on the lookout for a better ...

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Apple Pay: lessons for Cupertino

One could be more forgiving and attribute bad UX to "teething problems", but not when it comes to the world's largest company and expansion launch (rather than greenfield ops). Apple should have sorted all the issues I am raising here before launching in the US, let alone Europe - they have adequate resources and skills. Them not doing it...

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Why I'm Concerned For The FIX Service Profile

Over the past few months I've been talking with people on both sides of the Atlantic - exchanges, brokers and ISVs - about the emerging concept of electronic specifications in financial services, and the FIX Trading Community's proposed "FIX Service Profile" in particular. It's important to begin with words of support for the initiative;...

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

How to Recognize a Phishing Scam

So someone comes up to you in a restaurant—a complete stranger—and asks to look at your driver’s license. What do you do? Show it to that person? You’d have to be one loony tune to do that. However, this same blindness to security occurs all the time when a person is tricked by a “phishing” e-mail into typing in the password and username for their ...

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Disrupting the innovation status quo

‘Fintech’ and ‘innovation’ are both hot topics and buzzwords that are seemingly being dropped in to every conversation related to financial services at the moment. However the latter has always been essential to any business as the only source of sustainable growth, but somehow never with quite the overt focus it has right now. Having established ...

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Bringing private wires into the 21st century

A recent blog post from Colt highlighted the way trading floors have changed over the last few decades – what was once a profession characterised by floors of people shouting orders across a seething mass of traders has transformed into electronic trading, algorithms and mathematics PhDs. As with any industry, things change, move on and develop. ...

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Why EU start ups get a bad deal

The digital start up culture of the US has long been lauded as the benchmark for the EU to aspire towards creating. However the cultural and financial differences between the EU and US are vast, contributing to the perceptible dominance of the US start-up scene. For instance the EU has not yet been able to create a single Internet company, which i...

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Getting Closer to the Customer in Financial Services

Last month, SAP hosted its annual Financial Services Forum in London to discuss the challenges brought forth by digital transformation and to provide a platform for discussion around innovation and its complexity across the financial services industry. The landscape is becoming increasingly competitive for those operating in the banking, finance, ...

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Can Local Banks In Emerging Markets Compete With Global Banks?

The Philippines is preparing for ASEAN integration. Integration will mean (eventually) ASEAN member banks can set up shop here and vice versa. It makes me wonder what best practices they will bring? Will they be a threat to local banks? Large foreign banks have been setting up shop in emerging markets for a number of years – in the Philippines the ...

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Apple Pay: the good, the bad and the... roadmap

So, Apple Pay is finally here. Let me cut to the chase. The good Well done, Apple! Kudos for showing the way. Amazing antenna performance, thanks to AMS booster (that has now been dropped in favour of NXP). You can present the phone to the reader in a number of ways, and it still works. BTW, very few people know where exactly NFC antenna is on iPho...

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