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The secret to successfully managing remote teams is in recognizing that it’s more a leadership role than a manager one. Too often I find that managers try to manage remote teams as if they were locall...
When I was a student my mother presented me with a note that her father had given her as a child, She said ‘It’s German and it’s worth a thousand marks’. As you’ve probably gathered it was a 1000 Re...
As a British person attending the ATMIA Conference in New Orleans this week, I find myself feeling that the US is a society divided by extreme views. With the impending US elections I have heard peopl...
Over the last few years, venture capital funds have poured billions into fintech and the frustrated investment bankers and traders that launched the sector. But how close are we really to the complete...
Following the global economic downturn of 2008 and the consequent negative impact on public finances, governments globally intensified efforts to identify process and back office inefficiencies. A pro...
In continuation of my previous blog on Blockchain: Need of Future for Financial Industry, let us now try to understand one more path breaking revolution in the field of Accounting and Ledger maintenan...
Nothing in life is free – certainly not money. You can argue that all forms of payment have a cost associated with them in one way or another but unlike many of the new payment propositions out there,...
In 2010, Square was still the new kid on the block. With a model focused on micromerchant processors, you may have thought Square wasn't going after your market. If you cared about it at all, it was p...
When the banking system – and payments infrastructure in particular – was created, there was no consideration that anyone other than the banks would require access to it. How times have changed. With ...
In today’s global economy, the information shared across various entities and industries have to be 100% accurate secure and transparent. This requires a robust, secure data transmission through a def...
Can opposites within the financial services industry attract? While psychologists believe that opposites attract, they also say that over the long-term they can drive each other crazy - Could this h...
[This post begins a series of blogs which will examine in detail the effect of the EU’s new payment service directive (aka PSD2) from both a technical regulatory and business opportunity perspective] ...