1068 Results from 2020
Peter Davidson Business Consultant at Self Employed
Source: CBOE VIX Options Stock markets, futures markets, and general business sentiment have taken a pounding since the devastating coronavirus outbreak, more recently renamed COVID-19. After a semi-rally mid-week, stock markets have retraced and surrendered gains on the back of an avalanche of negative data vis-a-vis the latest virus from Hubei
18 February 2020 /markets /covid-19 Financial Transformation
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Citibank is one of the most active larger banks that actively tries to follow the trends and the demands of their customers and for the longest time, the prime request for their customer has been more present in fintech. Last year Citibank was involved in one of the biggest fintech projects, partnering up with Google on Google Pay and backing all...
17 February 2020 /inclusion Fintech
Thomas Muth FinTech and Retail Banking Specialist at SoftServe
This years’ Finovate Europe took place in Berlin. A three-day extravaganza that I attended at the Intercontinental Hotel - featuring the latest and greatest from the European FinTech scene. Despite Storm Chiara (or Storm Sabine dependent on where you are in the world) I made it to the conference in time, taking the ICE sprinter from Frankfurt to B...
17 February 2020 Futuristic Banking
Roberto Garavaglia Independent Advisor at Innovative Payments & blockchain Strategic Advisor
Since the stroke of midnight on 31 January 2020, United Kingdom 'is out', to use the same wording we have seen appearing in London's squares, to mark the country's exit from the European Union. Beyond an all too lively and often vague narration of the economic consequences that such a step, now taken, could have on the old continent (and not only)...
16 February 2020 /payments Financial Services Regulation
Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank
Most people are other people, Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, Their lives a mimicry, Their passions a quotation!!! - Oscar Wilde Nothing can sum up social life as beautifully as Oscar while did more than a century ago. We emulate similar behaviour at every social construct that we en
14 February 2020 /devops Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Retired Member
This is the first of three discussion forums around this important subject. The consequences of the demise of a global financial services system that supports the needs of everyone on the planet will be far reaching to say the least. But is it likely to disappear altogether? This is a very big question and if it did, what would take its place? Soc...
13 February 2020 /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Mete Feridun Chair at EMU Centre for Financial Regulation and Risk
The Basel Committee’s revised Pillar 3 framework of 2015 was intended to address shortcomings in the consistency and comparability of firms’ regulatory disclosures. Introducing standardised disclosure requirements under a tabular format for qualitative information and more granular disclosure requirements for quantitative information, the Committe...
12 February 2020 /regulation Banking Regulations
Benny Boye Johansen Head of OpenAPI at Saxo Bank
The current Open Banking offering provided by most banks stops at the lowest common denominator, providing access to a client’s current account and allowing for payment initiation and account aggregation. Many banks have seen such APIs as a threat and just a way to fulfill a regulatory requirement, as they have been very hard to monetise. They no...
12 February 2020 Open Banking
Juan Zafra Head of LATAM at KAE Consulting
Card acceptance In general terms, card acceptance is widespread in tourist areas and continues to experience a period of dynamic growth in the region. Card usage is relatively high in countries with local debit card schemes. CarIFS cards in Barbados and ATH cards in Puerto Rico are highly appreciated by merchants due to their low acceptance cost, ...
12 February 2020 /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Vikas Seth Chief Product Officer at IDnow Gmbh
Even though UBER being banned from London is old news (from 3 months ago), this is still quite relevant nowadays https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50544283 The reason as stated in new articles was that UBER had some fake drivers (either holding invalid licenses or not insured) going through verification process successfully. The fact that fraud i...
12 February 2020 /ai /crime Biometrics
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