1026 Results from 2017
Retired Member
Customer experience is of paramount importance to companies across all industries. No longer does a bank only have to consider how its customer service measures up to rival banks, it’s also compared to that provided by retailers, telcos and companies in the hospitality space. The implication being, to stay ahead of the pack, financial services fir...
03 May 2017 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Like an Extranet, Partner API’s are limited to specific parties, often for a very specific purpose like providing a product / service. Technically the API is no different to a public API, but access to the API will be limited typically using a 3rd party API gateway solution. Partner API’s are usually monetised, and this can be achieved in a number...
02 May 2017 /retail
Having worked in the Business Process Management (BPM) industry for nearly 20 years, primarily for software vendors, you inherit a number of preconceptions. One of those preconceptions is that all internal/integral workflow systems are inferior to an external BPM system. This preconception is born from the fact that there is no set definition for...
02 May 2017 /regulation Trends in Financial Services
Regulation is tightening within the banking industry and with the advance of technology, it is becoming more and more challenging for firms to retain acceptable profit margins within their foreign exchange (FX) business. Over the past decade we have seen many firms off-shoring and out sourcing their operations business to reduce costs in order to m...
02 May 2017 /regulation
Stacey Small Business Development at The Glue
If you haven’t seen the latest TV commercial from Samsung then you need to. Set to the theme of Elton John’s ‘Rocket Man’ an adventurous and ambitious, flightless ostrich accidentally finds itself with a virtual reality headset which enables him, in what seems to be over a 24 hour period, to achieve the impossible, and fly. Whether you like the ad...
Edward Grant CFO & Co-Founder at Solgari
Cloud technology has become critical to operations in many organisations. Providing an agile environment to host infrastructures and run processes and applications, it represents a relatively easy and cost-effective way of boosting performance. While this is the case for most, the financial services industry has traditionally shied away from cloud ...
Last week I mentioned my efforts to produce an algorithm on CloudQuant.com. As a reminder, they are a strategy incubator that provides historical data going back to 2011. If you can produce a trading or investment strategy that produces decent results they will license the algo from you and pay you a portion of the profits from that strategy. You...
01 May 2017 Fintech innovation and startups
Anne Leslie-Bini CEO at Pikcio RegTech
“I want to create a lender that people don't hate” said Denise Kingsmill, the chair of the board at U.K. challenger bank Monzo. Now there’s a pithy declaration that speaks volumes about the state of the banking industry and the times we live in. But how should we read this: are her comments simply savvy market positioning, tapping into the desider...
01 May 2017 /regulation /retail Disruption in Retail Banking
Victor Martin CMO at SquareRoot
Mobile devices already reached brought us a reality where it became the key. The intimacy of mobile devices has come to a high pitched state that we have never seen. For the majority of people, mobile devices are inseparable from their everyday reality. With all activities being donned by mobile interactions, businesses no longer can undermine the...
01 May 2017 Business Knowledge for IT
Abhishek Chatterjee Managing Partner at Gartner Inc.
Post financial crisis, FS institutes are mainly focusing on improving cost income ratio (reduce cost base), leverage ratios (improve quality of assets and comply with regulations) and return on equity (improve profitability). While banks were busy running a tight ship, there is a parallel ecosystem of fintech and other startups came along and start...
29 April 2017 /startups Fintech innovation and startups
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