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Today banks face a major profitability challenge 2018 is set to be a momentous year for banks as transformative regulations come into play. PDS2, MiFIDII and GDPR have been announced to be earthquake...
10 years after the last financial crisis, a new upheaval in banking It’s been 10 years since the global financial crisis, considered by many to be the worst since the great depression. New regulation...
The top twenty European banks manage a combined total set of assets worth £18.26 trillion, with HSBC leading the charge at £1.84 trillion. This is a vast amount of money for only twenty companies. Tr...
The Post API World The future of banking is being completely altered by the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) which comes into play in January 2018. PSD2 opens the floodgates to financial services...
Banking in the modern world Pairing technology and money is very common, we are used to hearing about the vast sums being pumped into Silicon Valley start-ups. What is less common is technology and ‘m...
Being customer obsessed We are in the age of the customer. A single tweet takes 22 minutes to go from insignificant to global, seen recently with Delta Airlines whose reputation was annihilated on so...
Since the 2016 World Economic Forum, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has become one of the most talked about movements. India is at the forefront with rapid digitalisation across industries. Digita...
Digitisation of banking Over the last five years the UK has seen a dramatic increase in contactless payments, with £2.9 billion spent last year, up 184% from 2015. Sweden is expected to become cashl...
Last year has been a rocky year for banks and financial markets. 2016 was a year of major fluctuations, driven by political changes across the world. The markets have reflected these turbulent times, ...
The internet looks set to advise many aspects of our lives from the moment we wake up in the morning until the moment we go to sleep. Even the humble toaster can be connected to a wireless network whi...
The United States presidential race is in its home stretch. Trump is confident of victory but his policies for the financial services industry are questionable. In his manifesto he states he wants to ...
Last week the multilingual Swiss of Geneva bid au revoir and aufedersein to nearly 10,000 bankers. The attendees of Sibos left knowing just how much technological change is facing the banking industry...