1068 Results from 2020
Retired Member
The financial services industry has been ruled by traditional banks for decades, but with the financial crash in 2008, regulation and microinspection paved the way for younger and more innovative competitors, leading to a new era of challenger banks. Driven by digital processes and new technology, and fuelled by the introduction of PSD2 regulation...
19 May 2020 /regulation
Shawn Hughes
Almost no one alive today has previously encountered a crisis quite like the COVID-19 pandemic. But change truly is the only constant in life, business and banking, so agility is an attribute that great FinTech leaders must embody. Here are five tips to successfully steer a future-focused organization when the road ahead is unclear: 1. Make sure...
19 May 2020 /retail /covid-19 Operational Risk Management
Adam Holden Chief Executive Officer at NorthRow
Businesses continue to face multiple challenges in achieving compliance with the requirements of the FCA and the 5th Money Laundering Directive (5th MLD), whilst running a tight and effective business. In all cases the aim is the same: to prevent crime whilst enabling genuine business, but the approach can seem rather different. In this article I ...
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Hypes and marketing buzz words are strongly present in the IT landscape. Often these are existing concepts, which have evolved technologically and are then renamed to a new term, as if it were a brand new technology or concept. If you want to understand and assess these new trends, it is important to reduce the concepts to their essence and compare...
18 May 2020 /devops Banking Architecture
Madhukar Ramu Executive Director at IHS Markit
A number of companies have reported earnings over the past few weeks, providing an early insight into how the COVID-19 outbreak has had a significant impact on revenues and profits in the first quarter of 2020. Many companies refrained from providing full year guidance stating significant uncertainties in assessing the time period of the pandemic ...
18 May 2020 /markets /covid-19 Operational Risk Management
Willem Lambrechts Managing Director at Drebbel
Governments are cautiously starting to relax the lockdown. Economic life, or what is left of it, starts picking up. Everybody is encouraged to “go digital” and work from home. That is probably fair enough for a lot of people conducting tasks that do not involve interactions with clients, suppliers, partners. But how about sales, or looking from th...
18 May 2020 /people /startups Digital Sales
Santhy Sreedhar Principal Consultant at EdgeVerve
Ever since Banks started with computerization and moved away from manual records handling to banking software for processing of transactions, constant efforts are being made to 'debug' the software bugs and tackle the security threats from 'software viruses' using anti-virus measures. Never it was imagined that a day will come when a 'Virus' which...
17 May 2020
Ahmed Khidhir Digital Banking Expert at Temenos
The COVID-19 outbreak has brought about drastic changes in our lives, and by every measure we are going through a great crisis. It is natural to assume that the pandemic will be a turning point in modern history, and many experts argue that the world we are entering will be fundamentally different from the one we knew before. Will the pandemic cha...
17 May 2020 /retail /covid-19 Digital Banking Trends
As the U.S. accelerates its printing press, China is already testing the digital yuan. Given this new reality, it becomes clear that the finance world will never be the same. But why do we need digital money? How is it better than traditional fiat money? What are the pitfalls? The coronavirus epidemic has accelerated cryptocurrency’s exit process ...
15 May 2020 /payments /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Covid 19 has highlighted a need for firms in the business world to be adaptable to rapidly changing conditions. In Financial Services, changing regulations and requirements from regulators mean that day to day users need to have solid processes and case management tools which allow them to maintain a strong structure of checks and balances. At th...
15 May 2020 /wholesale /crime Financial Services Regulation
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