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In nearly every metropolitan area, banks are the largest buildings in the city. The largest industry in nearly every country is banking. Banks know more about consumers than any individual brand. We t...
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Many of the business banking customers have expressed dissatisfaction with the way banks provide transparency to them in their transaction banking. Simple information such as the status of their payme...
The funding cycle for many private equity firms is set to kick off again in 2015, with all its attendant chaos, tension and high stakes. Firms can expect their investor relations and marketing teams t...
A friend of mine once quipped "Welcome to the Hotel Corporate Actions. You can check out any time you like, but you can’t never leave". It was right on the money. The word "dedicated&...
The last financial crisis has taught us many lessons, with one of the most significant being the importance of data risk management. And while the BCBS 239 paper’s 2016 deadline feels like a concern ...
...using the principles of operational excellence for IT The first two blogs of this series examined how we can design from the outset for operational excellence, when given the luxury of doing so, an...
There are 58 Fintech companies in the report this year. They represent a total of 273 branded solutions. Fiserv has the largest number of solutions, 127, and for good reason. Fiserv made 157 acquis...
These are scary times we live in when it comes to data security. And the times are even scarier for today’s retailers, government agencies, financial institutions, and healthcare organisations. The in...
The profound shift which we have experienced in the advancement of technology in the past five years is clear, and there has been a fundamental change in how consumers, employees and businesses intera...