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Fundamental shifts in consumer behavior, the emergence of new technologies and an evolving regulatory landscape means the payments ecosystem is poised for unprecedented transformation in 2018. The dem...
2018 is set to be an eventful year, with a royal wedding, ongoing Brexit negotiations, the FIFA World Cup, and predictions of an extremely close midterm election in the US in November. How these event...
The year 2017 saw unprecedented change in the world of cyber – the number and scale of attacks grew significantly, while in many cases governments, regulators, and financial services firms were percei...
2017 was the year that Transaction Laundering planted itself firmly in the consciousness of the minds of regulators, lawmakers, law enforcement and the general public. We believe that 2018 will be the...
Finance has always been quite conservative but it hasn’t missed out on technological progress. Now banks are separating from their customers due to technological progress. According to the research, 4...
During our stay in South Africa I was reading an article in Die Burger (newspaper for Afrikaners) where a spokesman of Cape town-based PWC gave his ideas on the recent rise of Bitcoin and the future o...
At this early stage of the chatbot evolution, it is difficult to determine the current state of being able to value chatbot firms. Valuation of new innovations is often influenced on future potential....
Unicredit gave a "Capital Markets Day" in London on 12/12/17 and what an upbeat event it was, accompanied by a slidedeck full of green ticks and words like "signed" and "compl...
Last month I spoke at the Nordics NextGen conference in Stockholm. The topic was open banking and PSD2 with a truly great panel, moderator and a full house of intertactive 400+ attendees and my fi...
Proactivity in digital banking has been acknowledged as important by a number of respected organisations. Efma and Accenture announced the winners of their fifth annual Distribution & Marketing In...
Flexible working practices have been talked about for the past decade, but for many firms and employees, policies are finally becoming a reality. 2018 is going to be a turbulent year for the financi
Access to cash is a staple requirement for today’s on-demand generation of consumers. Cash is still relied upon as an essential form of payment, accepted and exchanged in the most places, and always t...