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A recent report from TCS shows that the insurance industry is expected to spend $102.9million on IoT-related technology and solutions in 2018 alone, up from $77.7million in 2015. This huge growth in i...
Across all industries customer insight is becoming ever more important for generating new and innovative offerings as well as driving flexibility in existing products, to improve customer experience. ...
Although it has been three months since the UK population voted to leave the European Union, there is very little additional clarity on the impact that Brexit may have on consumer payments. Below we h...
In recent years, as the nascent growth of financial technology has started to bloom, there has been marked industry opposition between fintechs and banks. The emergence of fresh, lean start-ups using ...
In 1958 an economist named Leonard Read wrote a famous essay named “I, Pencil” that so potently described the power and complexity of the modern economy that is it still widely evoked today. In the ...
Does increasing use of technology need to mean that business and personal interactions will be increasingly anonymous and purely functional? I believe not, and that banks should be using technology a...
MiFID II requires trading venues to store personally identifiable information (each potentially 50 characters long) relating to the traders, investment managers and clients of the orders they receive...
A word cloud of any speech by regulators or market structure pundits would feature the word "transparency" prominently. A common refrain: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant" is uni...
You are now 20 times more likely to have your money stolen online than by a pickpocket or mugger in the street, according to recent figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The stats rev...
After my last blog entry - When Is A Salesperson Not A Sales Person - I now share some further experiences. My colleagues and I are often are approached by companies to help raise funds for their futu...
Spotting how offenders conceal information and other tell-tale signs Beware of accepting everything at face value. And don’t be afraid to look under the rug for something that’s been hidden! In this...
Ripple (amongst others) promises to disrupt correspondent banking by driving out delay, cost, complexity, and uncertainty. Will it deliver on this promise? Ripple has recently announced Series B fundi...