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We at SWIFT would like to hear about your ISO 20022 plans, experiences and questions. Leading up to Sibos, we are publishing a series of weekly blogs on Finextra called "Making ISO 20022 work for...
Retail banks are under fire from two sides – from regulation on one flank, and from competitive pressures on the other. It’s been estimated that Basel III’s requirements will reduce banking industry p...
Digitalisation is it an opportunity or threat for mortgage lenders ? Well I believe digitalisation is an opportunity, but for many lenders it could turn out to be a threat if they do not respond to th...
Spent a great few days in Madrid last week at the International Trader Forum. The event brings together key figures from the buy and sell-side to debate the current and future likely shape of the ind...
It sounds almost like science fiction, even in this cyber age: A thief hacks into your computer and encrypts your files, meaning, scrambles the information so you can’t make sense of any of it. He dem...
Upon reading a recent Finextra published blog by Dan Glessner of Quisk, Inc on June’s MoneyConf event in Belfast ( http://www.quisk.co/blog/2015/06/25/observations-from-moneyconf-in-belfast-fintech-2...
It’s time to put the consumer at the heart of ‘consumer banking’. For banks, that could be a cue to go shopping or take a holiday… In this second blog in our series (read Part I) on putting the cons...
Anyone wise and who wished me well always said “Get the Basics Right”.... Looking back, no one really ever told me why? I mostly figured this out on my own - and many times the hard way. So why are th...
The past few years have seen a wide shift across all kinds of organisations towards harnessing digital technologies. Gartner calls this ‘The Digital Industrial Economy’, where every business wants to ...
At the start of the year, Deloitte’s Banking Outlook report predicted that in 2015, banks may finally be at the point of boosting profitability, and stepping out of the turbulence of the past six yea...
KYC processes aren’t a competitive differentiator but they are critical processes. However firms are rapidly coming to the conclusion that KYC processes aren’t best done bilaterally. This shift is lib...