1148 Results from 2018
Retired Member
The following comments, provided for information only, can under no circumstances be construed as recommendation or incentive to buy or sell any investment or engage in any trading strategy individually or collectively. What if, it was possible to trade Bitcoins like other assets, in spite of sheer volatility? Not that there are much fundamentals t...
18 March 2018
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
Blockchain technology enables real-time settlement finality in the securities world. This may mean the end of a number of players in the post trade area. For a long time, central securities depositories (CSDs), as intermediators in the post-trade processing chain, were expected to become obsolete. CSDs, but also other existing players in the post-...
17 March 2018
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
Supply chain blockchain Proof of Concept (PoC) initiatives are showing that further progress is needed on the DLT technology before it will be ready to support production-grade applications in large-scale and mission-critical global supply chain infrastructures. While my research continues, I want to share my initial findings on what holds back PoC...
17 March 2018 Innovation in Financial Services
The banking and financial sectors are on the brink of a fundamental structural change. Compliance regulations have kept these industries trapped in long-overdue legacy systems. Yet, senior executives understood that they need to make a shift towards integrating more technology into their daily operations. This decision is motivated by costs, effic...
17 March 2018 /ai Fintech
Artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to impact our lives faster than we can imagine. From Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa, which is now in over five million homes, to online shopping recommendations and image recognition, AI technologies have found no shortages of real world applications that are quickly becoming a familiar part of our daily ...
16 March 2018 /ai /retail
Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd
In March 2018, Citicorp launched a Facebook Messenger chatbot for its consumer banking clients in Singapore. They also plan to launch these chatbot-based services in Hong Kong and Australia later in 2018. Citicorp’s conversation-as-a-service enables customers to access account balances and credit card bill summaries. Citicorp intend to extend this...
16 March 2018 /ai Fintech
Reghunathan Sukumara Pillai Consultant at Infosys
When computerization was introduced in the Indian banking industry in the early 1990s, there was furore amongst the staff in the public sector banks. The Banks were heavily unionized at that time with the federations/associations predicting loss of jobs especially at the clerical cadre and even at the officer/Middle Management level. Their reasoni...
15 March 2018 /retail Business Knowledge for IT
Early morning, I received a call in my cell phone from a consumer finance company explaining to me about some consumer finance/EMI offers. After a few hours, I received a call from one call entre of a bank selling credit cards about life time free card with other offers. In the afternoon, I received a call from an Insurance company about some insu...
15 March 2018 /security Data Protection Act Issues
Robert McClure Managing Director at Sequrest
On 25 May 2018 most processing of personal data by organisations will have to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This legislation replaces the Data Protection Act and will have far reaching consequences for how institutions collect, process and store data. Individuals will gain greater rights and control over their data. ...
14 March 2018 /security /regulation Data Protection Act Issues
Anjani Kumar Principal Consultant - FS Risk & Compliance at Infosys Limited
In response to the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC), financial institutions (FIs) perforce had to undertake numerous corrective actions for restoring their credibility. Transforming their regulatory reporting practices was one such remedial action undertaken by FIs. Unfortunately, in spite of their earnest efforts over the past several years in ...
13 March 2018 /regulation
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