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Postcards From The Digital Edge: Innovation Lessons From The Best

In 1903, the President of the Michigan Savings Bank advised Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Company. “The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty – a fad,” he said. Not his best professional moment. Disruption can be unsettling and blindsiding in the short term. But underestimating it can hav...

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Two key technologies driving Machine Learning in Financial Services

Predictive powers Many people wish they could predict what will happen next in the world. Many predictions are assigned to the waste bin of time very quickly. With hindsight, unforeseen factors come into play that changed their 'models'. It is because there were so many factors involved to predict. The ability of models to analyse and interpret me...

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Machine Learning: Lessons for Banks From Self-Driving Cars

I read a McKinsey article the other day about 'cultural invisibility' - that tipping point when new technologies become so common they're taken for granted and become 'invisible'. Electricity, steam engines, and other twentieth century inventions typically seem to take about 80 years to make the transition. Computers haven't faded from view just y...

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Big Data's Three Big Trends in 2016

thanks ketharaman for your comments . The interaction between banks and need to share common data is driving a number of the api discussions driven in the uk alot by open data initiative and 7 day switching .... However, fintechs and other external companies have been able to find much more value through new uses or insights from data that have been overlooked by banks . i particularly liked the one from bbva credit card visualization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J3T3UjHbrE . This lead them to open up fintechs for other ideas on how to get new insights or value from data beyond already being done in the bank

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Big Data's Three Big Trends in 2016

thanks for the feedback adrian

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Big Data is the key to the future of digital services

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