1068 Results from 2020
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The futuristic utopia that technological progress promises is coming ever closer at an astonishing pace, yet unseen challenges, have surfaced during the COVID-19 virus outbreak. The pandemic has managed to plunder and destabilize the world in just the last few months, putting in danger not only lives, but economic boundaries, well-established glob...
08 April 2020 /crypto /covid-19 Cryptocurrency Insights
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
The European Banking Federation (EBF), the European Association of Co-operative Banks (EACB) and the European Savings and Retail Banking Group (ESBG) point out that the crisis has brought to the fore the importance of well-functioning payments services. The three groups have put together their vision for payments in the EU over the next five years...
08 April 2020 /payments Blockchain Observations
Payson Johnton CEO and Co-Founder at Crowdz
The world is becoming increasingly globalized, and despite the benefits of a better connected global economy and supply chain for businesses both small and large, banks seem to be pulling away from what was once a mainstay of their regular operations: supplier finance. As someone with their ear to the ground in the supply finance space, this has b...
07 April 2020 /startups /covid-19 Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Rishi Chauhan Strategy Director at Haydon & Company Limited
This blog has been produced with support from Ipsos Mori, a sincere thanks to Paul Stamper (Paul.Stamper@ipsos.com) for his help and input. This blog attempts to answer two key questions: Why do fintechs need to start marketing to specific target customer segments? And how should they go about identifying the right segments to target? Why must fi...
07 April 2020 /retail /startups Fintech
Eli Taranto Head of Global Business Development at EQIBank
Umberto Eco once wrote “Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.” In addition to the effects on the supply and demand side, COVID-19 has jolted financial markets across the globe as oil, bond yields, and equity prices fall, and trillions of dollars, acr...
07 April 2020 /payments /covid-19 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
In today’s design of (software) solutions, providing a frictionless user experience is (and should be) a top priority within every organization. While payments have already gone through a major evolutioneliminating much of the frictions (from cash payments to card payments up to contactless card payments and mobile payments), the entire checkout pr...
06 April 2020 /payments /retail Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
According to a Google search: “5G will support billions of connections” and “5G will have a tremendous effect on economy” and “5G solves problems we haven’t yet encountered”. In isolation, it almost sounds like 5G is a wizard that will solve all the problems of this world and perhaps even issues beyond our Earth. I’m not that optimistic, but after...
06 April 2020 /devops /markets 5G Payments Schemes and Strategies 2020 - 2035
Erik Pickett Actuary and Chief Content Officer at Club Vita
The number of Google searches for the word unprecedented has recently spiked to unprecedented levels[1]. And for good reason; the COVID-19 pandemic is unlike anything in living memory - and it is not affecting everybody in the same way. Here I set out the reasons why different socioeconomic groups could be affected very differently by the pandemic...
06 April 2020 /covid-19 Innovation in Financial Services
Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS
We live in an era of platforms. Many sectors, including financial services, are embracing platforms as a new and better way of doing business. Banking as a Platform (BaaP) is nascent but the benefits of “platformification” show the direction of travel for the industry. Banks that are not yet prepared for this new era must start to be soon. Bankin...
06 April 2020 /retail /cloud Fintech
Reghunathan Sukumara Pillai Consultant at Infosys
While Covid19 has created ruckus within the human society across religions/races/geographies/countries/continents, this can change the business models, working cultures and journeys of digital transformation within an enterprise for the future. Humans are resistive to change, and many organizations have faced challenges to transform in a digital wa...
06 April 2020 /covid-19
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