1068 Results from 2020
John Pucciarelli Director of Strategic Initiatives at AcadiaSoft
Created in response to the global financial crisis, the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) are one of the most consequential regulatory events for the derivatives industry in recent years. While the rules were designed to reduce systemic risk, they have also led to a boom in technological innovation and standardization. Though not the original intention...
03 February 2020 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
Claus Christensen CEO at Know Your Customer
There are always many reasons one might want to organise a trip to Paris. For the last couple of years, the Paris FinTech Forum has become another one of these reasons. First launched in 2015 and hosted in the charming Palais Brongniart - the former stock exchange building – the Paris FinTech Forum has established itself as an unmissable date for f...
03 February 2020 /regulation Digital Banking Trends
Retired Member
This is the second in a series of three blog posts which looks at how a digital finance transformation enables a future-ready finance department - one that can use data, technology and human talent to go beyond governance to provide commercial leadership to the business. In this series I outline how a digital finance transformation enables efficie...
03 February 2020 /ai /regulation Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
With mountains of market data, historical prices, and transactions data stored in disparate systems, securities and investment firms are shifting from a focus on collecting data to extracting value from it. A December 2019 paper by capital markets consultancy GreySpark Partners examined the potential for buy-side and sell-side firms to transform la...
03 February 2020 Capital Markets Technology
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Cryptocurrencies had a great year in many respects. For the first time, large banks started collaborating with cryptocurrencies and considered the idea that this form of payment might actually be here to stay for a long time. We also saw a lot of resistance from the governing bodies and regulators that don’t want to see that change happen and woul...
03 February 2020 /crypto /crime Law and Finance
Developments in the digital space are changing the dynamics of the remittance market, driving it on a steady upward curve. According to the World Bank, in 2018, remittances to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) amounted to $529 billion – an increase of 9.6% over the previous year. Global remittances, which include flows to high-income countr...
03 February 2020 /inclusion Fintech
It isn’t an understatement to say that a day won’t go by when digital transformation isn’t talked about – whether on Twitter, LinkedIN, or in the business press. Whilst too much focus is often put on the technology aspect of a digital transformation or being digital, a key foundation and enabler for the digital age has to be data. A recent Forbe...
02 February 2020 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Roberto Garavaglia Independent Advisor at Innovative Payments & blockchain Strategic Advisor
A complete analysis of token definitions, their main uses, the future of decentralized applications and token-economy, in an evolutionary path that goes beyond the 3.0 paradigm, crosses that of Industry 4.0, to attain a Society 5.0 concept. These are the contents of this article that, starting from the examination of the term “token”, very often c...
01 February 2020 /crypto Blockchain Observations
Paul Malyon Head of Data Literacy at Experian
As the amount of data continues to grow year on year, a business’s ability to compete will increasingly be driven by how well it can extract insight, apply analytics and implement new technologies. That’s key to stay competitive in today’s ever-changing economy, leveraging rich datasets to get a deeper understanding of their customers, operations ...
31 January 2020 Data Management 101
Vivek Anand Jeyaraj Principal Product Manager at EdgeVerve Systems
In 2015, two hackers, albeit in a controlled environment, hacked into a Jeep Cherokee through the entertainment system and disabled the transmission. This led to a recall of over 1.4 million vehicles to fix the vulnerabilities that made this attack possible. Today, many such devices, connected directly to the internet are used to pay tolls and also...
31 January 2020 /security Information Security
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