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Sarah Jackson

Get Closure

New e-signature technology is helping dealerships close motor finance sales in minutes, gaining a competitive edge by enabling customers to drive away on the same day. The first half of 2017 is looki...

20 Mar 2017
Trends in Financial Services
Ray Connolly

The future of Work Management in the Financial Workplace

"The future will happen, it’s not only inevitable it’s unavoidable" The world of work is currently going through a radical change. It’s not so long ago that it was about having the same job ...

20 Mar 2017
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

Real Time Economy for EU - How?

Previous posts have aimed at describing the big picture: •https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/13835/real-time-economy-for-eu---big-picture The very compelling Why - the Mission •https://www.finextra...

20 Mar 2017
Fintech innovation and startups
Bo Harald

Real Time Economy for EU - What?

The two most central targets are: 1. Automated VAT- and other reporting to public and other sectors (Target 1- T1 in slide). For this automated - towards real time moving - accounting is needed (ECO1)...

19 Mar 2017
Andy Hirst

Machine Learning: Lessons for Banks From Self-Driving Cars

I read a McKinsey article the other day about 'cultural invisibility' - that tipping point when new technologies become so common they're taken for granted and become 'invisible'. Electricity, steam e...

17 Mar 2017
A Finextra Member

20 years of internet banking....

Some screens of some of the internet banking projects I was involved in the 90's. With digital banks like Atom and Starling.... we are starting to see the green shoots of real change in terms of exper...

17 Mar 2017
A Finextra Member

Digital stupidity: mobile wallets that mimic physical wallets

My physical wallet is useful - it helps me store a number of valuables and memories but it is dumb. It doesn't know anything about me. Ironically, we are creating the equivalent in digital or mobile w...

16 Mar 2017
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

What are the Barriers to FinTech Investment?

Is 2017 truly a year of investment for fintech innovation as has been suggested? A report at the end of last year by law firm, Mayer Brown, suggested that financial services firms are keen to make an ...

15 Mar 2017
Fintech innovation and startups
A Finextra Member

Successful transformation requires a dictatorship

When it comes to digitally transforming, the financial services sector is suffering from the old saying ‘too many cooks spoil the broth’. Much needed innovation and change is being held back because t...

15 Mar 2017
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

Real Time Economy for EU - Why?

The benefits - direct and indirect - should be analysed from several angles - even if it is clear that the benefits mostly soon will end up at the EU-citizens table: 1. Benefits for the EU-Citizen

15 Mar 2017
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

Real Time Economy for EU - Big Picture

Being back from a very inspiring meeting in Brussels it is a good moment to post a few high level observations (going into Why-How-What details separately). The RTE is all about automating financial ...

15 Mar 2017
Innovation in Financial Services
Ivy Schmerken

MiFID II Regulations to Impact U.S. Asset Managers

North American broker-dealers and asset managers domiciled in the U.S. are watching their European counterparts gear up for compliance with MiFID II. But will MiFID II affect U.S. broker-dealers and a...

14 Mar 2017
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