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Iosif Itkin

Large Scale Infrastructure Intervention and Fake Testing

In a nutshell, the job that we do comes down to infiltrating large financial market infrastructures with specially designed tools to influence the outcome of the software development life cycle. We ha...

05 May 2018
Operational Risk Management
Nanda Kumar

2008-2018, two turning points for the financial services sector

10 years after the last financial crisis, a new upheaval in banking It’s been 10 years since the global financial crisis, considered by many to be the worst since the great depression. New regulation...

04 May 2018
Banking Regulations
Freddie McMahon

The convergence of Legacy Systems and FinTech using chatbots

Legacy Systems remain problematic. Legacy Systems constrain change enablement. FinTech accelerates change. Legacy Systems are costly and slow to change. FinTech is inexpensive and quick to change. The...

04 May 2018
Business Knowledge for IT
A Finextra Member

GDPR in Context: 6 Key Data Protection Principles

GDPR outlines six principles that organizations need to abide by. These principles aren't new - they were already outlined in the 1995 directive, but GDPR has revised them slightly. We delve into each...

03 May 2018
Banking Regulations
Urvish Macwan

Will Artificial Intelligence Modify the Work Offices?

The arrival of Artificial Intelligence to offices cannot be stopped. Far from relegating employees, AI serves as a tool to streamline, automate and improve production processes within an organization....

02 May 2018
Ketharaman Swaminathan

Open Banking Needs A Blockchain Boost

---------- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: This is the first post I've published using the "Insert/edit image" feature I recently found on Finextra Blog Editor. Unlike the old "Assign a picture link&q...

02 May 2018
Sadra Boutorabi

PCI Compliance and 3D Secure 2

Serious efforts have been made to combat against the ever-increasing levels of CNP (card-not-present fraud), which has jumped to record levels (around $14.2 billion annually) in recent years. Anyone ...

02 May 2018
Standards Forum
Romal Almazo

CRYPTOCURRENCY - SO, THE BITCOIN BUBBLE IS BURSTING - WHAT NEXT?

INTRODUCTION In less than four months, the Bitcoin price has crashed 65% from its all-time high in December 2017. If history is anything to go by, the price is likely to experience further downward p...

01 May 2018
Digital Asset Class (DAC)
A Finextra Member

An Identity Crisis

To reveal or not to reveal, that is the question. In today’s world, the need to use personal data is increasing in frequency as this information is necessary to process transactions in our daily liv...

01 May 2018
Paul Grimbers

Keep doing something the same way, don’t expect a different outcome

The financial services arena is fraught with challenges... Ongoing regulation, increasing competition, an unstoppable demand for digital services, whilst all the time internal demands to drive down op...

01 May 2018
Fintech
Bob Lyddon

BACS and Faster Payments privatised to single individual

In a shock announcement BACS and Faster Payments are being run, as of today, by a company controlled by a single private individual. This must be a first for a critical UK national infrastructure. New...

01 May 2018
UK Faster Payments
A Finextra Member

Active, proactive or reactive: Assessing your cyber security posture

Need to stand up to cyber security breaches more effectively? Change your posture! An organisation’s ‘security posture’ indicates how robustly they are equipped to avoid, detect and repel cyber threa...

01 May 2018

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