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Do something you never thought you could Successful innovation focuses on making customers' lives easier, better and, ideally, more enjoyable. In banking, this focus is calibrated by de-complicating p...
Is the entire financial services sector under attack? Given the proliferation of news stories around cyber attacks on financial institutions, it's sometimes easy to believe so. For the criminal frater...
Recent studies of several exchanges contracts suggest market abuse and manipulation is still in operation . Exchanges have always needed market makers to provide liquidity and volume especially with n...
With the FCA and CMA mandating that large UK banks must publish information on how likely people would be to recommend their bank, it’s much easier for consumers and small businesses to compare the s...
Einstein once said that the “measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” In the complex world of financial markets, change is very much afoot, as the major institutions seek to overhaul their l...
So many mighty and powerful are drawn to the African countries, and I am not even talking about Chinese and their generous investment in infrastructural projects in 53 out of 54 countries of the cont...
With the introduction of the GDPR regulation this year, automotive dealerships are amongst the many UK businesses that have been taking a long hard look at how they collect, store, and manage data. D...
It’s hard to ignore the presence of fintech all around us these days, and it looks like the situation is only going to move further in that direction if current trends are to be of any indication. The...
Over the last 12-months, several high-profile FinTechs and challenger banks have experienced multiple outages for cards processing, leading to reputational damage, anxious tweets, irritated customers...
In the quest for better productivity in the global markets we have been listing huge levers like: - Economy of Scale - still important - even if IT-processing costs have been coming down - Economy of ...
How do you build a successful fintech mobile app? Seems like a reasonable question, right? Judging by how quickly Google auto-complete filled it in for me, seems like a question people search for wit...
Just when wealth managers thought that they could draw a sigh of relief, knowing that their MiFID II obligations were, if not a thing of the past, at least a part of business, as usual, a sense of fo