1068 Results from 2020
Ambrish Parmar Digital Leader, Strategist, at Thought leader and Start-up Advisor
Time to read: Five minutes to gain a different perspective /// Airport lounges Over the last 12 months, I have had the luxury of travelling to several different countries—often quickly exchanging one travel bag for another and regularly buying Toblerone bars, much to the annoyance of my family (especially the wife—and rightly so). I have convinced...
13 March 2020 /retail /inclusion Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
Blockchain consortia are creating a massive hype in the market. Many enterprises are highly interested in this type of network willing to join these consortia in order to gain optimal benefits of this technology. However, there is still a large uncertainty among them how these consortia work and how they are governed. Up till recently the focus w...
13 March 2020 Blockchain Observations
Retired Member
When most people think about the term “Bank” they probably envision a retail branch with long queues, behind a rope waiting to seek the services of a teller or branch representative. Well those days are becoming more and more obsolete, as Gen Y and Millennials are seeking convenient, innovative, digital means of banking. Banks need to elevate the...
13 March 2020 /payments /retail Transaction Banking
Steve Wilcockson Product Marketing at Quantexa
The March Tiobe Index is out. I follow Java (1, up short term), Python (3, continual rise), R (11, steady mid-term) MATLAB (15, down mid-term), SAS (21, steady-ish) and Julia (49, wildly down?) as my interests tend towards deployment of quant and data science models into production architectures. Some thoughts on these platforms are below. What do ...
13 March 2020 /ai /devops Capital Markets Technology
Anna Mazzone MD at MetricStream
The business landscape of today is in constant flux and continually being disrupted by rapid change. From new competitors with disruptive business models to changing customer demographics and dynamics and technological advancements, we are seeing increasing paradigm shifts in business fundamentals. The regulatory landscape too has had to adapt to ...
12 March 2020 /ai /regulation Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Payson Johnton CEO and Co-Founder at Crowdz
Small and medium-sized business (SMBs) are often cited as a major economic driver and force for job creation, and it’s for good reason; with SMBs making up over 90 percent of all US businesses, while also employing 47.5 percent of the country’s entire workforce. But, despite their significant impact on the economy, many still encounter difficultie...
12 March 2020 Fintech innovation and startups
According to various sources, total funding for space companies reached close to US$6 billion in 2019, raking in hundreds of millions from VC funds over the years. Once considered to be costly and redundant to launch and operate, satellite technology is now 'smart' (not just a data transmission pipe); the benefits of unparallel coverage have been ...
11 March 2020 /startups /markets Private Equity Investing in Financial Technology
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Fintechs rely heavily on blockchain to make the transactions smooth and safe and while both of these technologies often face criticism for being vulnerable to attacks, the fintech industry keeps growing and expanding its reach over the world. Alchemy technology is a fintech infrastructure development company that just recently announced its partn...
11 March 2020 Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.
Deposit Cash, Get Arrested! Banking has evolved more in the last few years than in the last few decades. The main reason is technology closely followed by regulation. The famous statement that “Cash is King” is no more! Banks, due to regulation and to limit their own risk, have been working with government to limit our usage of cash. A good examp...
10 March 2020 /crypto /covid-19 Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Ron Cogburn CEO at Exela Technologies
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." Isaac Asimov This is a reprint from article in ReadWrite It might appear that data — the information you find in a scientific article, a history book, or a set of survey results — is just a collection of objective facts. The numbe...
10 March 2020 /ai Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
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