1026 Results from 2017
Alex Kreger Founder and CEO at UXDA Financial UX Design
Every day, millions of people, both offline and online, do not make their desired purchases. Unfortunately, financial services is no exception. Let's try to figure out how businesses lose prospective customers who are willing and ready to pay for goods and services and how you can prevent this to grow your sales. Many years ago, I drastically ch...
12 June 2017 /retail /devops Innovation in Financial Services
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
Nowadays many people buy – sometimes or more frequent – articles online. Waiting for a package to be delivered however could be frustrating. These are delivered via postal services and/or courier companies at home. But these deliveries mostly happen during work hours, or when you do your shopping, or when you are somewhere else. So not being able...
11 June 2017
Retired Member
Blockchain proposes a great technological concept; data is synchronized across organizations and geographies in a seamless manner while keeping the data immutable. So much has been discussed around this technology and its “brushfire” rush to adopt it, but not a lot is being said about the macro concept that the technology stands for- seamless inte...
08 June 2017
So, if you're planning to attend any kind seminar on what you need to do for MiFID II over the next few months, forget it and go to the movies instead. You're simply too late and whatever plans you have (or have not) put in place will just have to do as there are only 6 months left to go. The more important questions concern how regulators will in...
08 June 2017 /regulation
We live in an organic economy where businesses expand and contract at an ever-increasing rate. Companies like Deliveroo are growing rapidly in the matter two or three years, while other businesses like the 97-year-old BHS go into liquidation. The average lifespan of a company listed in the S&P 500 has decreased by more than 50 years in the last...
08 June 2017 /retail
Compliance, information security and HR departments are embracing smart surveillance technologies to help meet their obligations. But many struggle to adopt a holistic surveillance service that works across multiple departments and multiple people. So what’s the answer? ‘Regulated compliance’ and ‘cyber security’ have been used to justify many inv...
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
I noticed a huge crowd during a recent visit to my bank branch. I happened to spot the bank’s Head of Relationship Banking - let me call her Sonia - in the branch. I asked her how come their branch was so full when finsurgents have been predicting the death of branches for so long. Sonia told me that, let alone die, their branches are growing. Desp...
08 June 2017 /retail /startups
Howard Berg Senior V President,North and Central Europe, BPS at Gemalto DIS
Big names in banking are permanently closing the doors on thousands of branches across the UK, leading to some commentators expressing doubts over the place of the bank branch in the digital world. Consumers are increasingly used to managing their finances via the internet or smartphone applications. But the reality is there is still a place for ...
07 June 2017
Ray Connolly Vice President of Sales at SQL Power Group
“… the earlier riser gets first choice, but this will not be a true reflection on performance” Humans are wired to select the path of least resistance, why expend energy if it’s unnecessary or inconvenient. If we’re given free choice, it’s only natural that we opt for the easiest route and the one that is most convenient for us, regardless of team ...
06 June 2017 Digital Banking Trends
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
I have posted a long document on Linkedin (Applying Blockchain in the Supply Chain) describing which blockchain features best apply to the Supply Chain process elements below. I wish I could post it here on Finextra but I cannot include charts that are integral part of the document. Hope you will enjoy the reading. Supply Chain Processes Affected...
06 June 2017 Financial Supply Chain
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