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I have been following with consternation media and ”analyst” statements around the future of banks in face of block chain and PSD2. It is easy to agree that new technology and the data driven economy ...
The world knows that the European Union has fined Google a record breaking $2.7 billion in antitrust fines. The litigation has been going on for more than a decade and Google has lost yet again. The d...
Payments is increasingly seen as an area that is ripe for disruption, having the potential to enhance payment processing. To overcome the current structural weaknesses in the payments area including l...
While the financial services industry has traditionally been at the forefront of technological change, until recently it was cautious about embracing the cloud. Questions of trust, quality of provider...
The history of banking interactions When banking began, banking interaction started physically by visiting a bank, and it was not until the 1980’s that telephone banking came into play. Around the sam...
The PSD2 countdown clock is well and truly ticking and is now only a couple of months away. It’s not exactly Y2K levels of excitement, but at least no one expects planes to fall from the sky. Natural...
Immediate Payments must be part of an open banking strategy. The question that most banks are asking themselves, as real-time payments schemes gather pace in different markets around the world, is, “H...
On 23 June 2016, UK has expressed the democratic will of leaving European Union. The outcome of Brexit referendum initiated the process that terminates the deep and special relationship between UK and...
As European regulatory bodies encourage firms to embrace the cloud, it’s time to take a look at some of the benefits, concerns, and myths of archiving electronic communications in the cloud. Historica...
It’s no surprise to anyone in the financial community that SIBOS is by far the most relevant global networking event of the year. Not only was Toronto a great city to host it this year but open bankin...
Brexit negotiations resume this week with the UK government reportedly going to cave in to a bill of EUR60 billion in exchange for a trade deal, their not having worked out how detrimental the current...
Mainframes and their use at modern enterprises are seen by many as outdated legacy IT systems that are becoming more and more obsolete as businesses are becoming increasingly reliant on the cloud. H...