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With new entrants joining the banking world, individuals have more choice, and there is increased competition for the sector. However, for new entrants, encouraging people to switch to them from the ...
I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but it seems to me that over recent years every few weeks we hear about this bank or another suffering an outage impacting customers or clients on some scale. ...
As Fintech firms continue to make breakthroughs and disrupt banking and payments services around the world, I was curious to hear the first hand experience of a start-up at the forefront of innovation...
This morning I read with interest a colleague’s blog post on the delay to the publication of the ESMA technical standards from July back to September. Whilst I appreciate that these things are compli...
The 2015 election has given us all a good shake. On the face of it, the status quo is maintained, with David Cameron and George Osborne (the man who brought us pensions flexibility) returning to offic...
Criminals always go where people go - this is the first thing we have learned in the 1st day Criminology class (sure together with many other interesting stuff, please note that there was no Discovery...
One of the commonest parts of a, four party model, transaction yet one of the most misunderstood concepts in our industry. Cited by EU politicians as the cause of inflated consumer pricing and pillori...
The European Commission (EC) and ESMA have agreed on an improved process to draft the Level 2 texts for MiFID II. On the back of those discussions, ESMA asked for a 3-month extension on their own dea...
Ever since FinTech found life outside of Silicon Valley, it was only a matter of time before London established itself as the most desirable location for FinTech growth. The UK capital received $539 m...
When it comes to successfully engaging with a new generation of customers (and employees), there’s very little doubt that insurers have their work cut out. There can be very little doubt that members ...
With all due respect, the label "digital banking" does not accurately describe the stronger impact technology is having on banking right now. Digital, as it relates to Information Technolog...
Hackers love LinkedIn because it links them in—straight through the portal of the targeted company. Geez, how much easier could this be, what with all the publically-exposed e-mail addresses of key pl...