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Some time ago, I read an article by a former employee of a video store, which vanished from the surface because of the supremacy of video streaming services like Netflix or Hulu. Although the store s...
The one thing that there is no dearth of in the current world, is Data. Therein lies the boon as well as the bane. On one hand availability of large amounts of data would mean banks and financial inst...
Compliance has been a dirty word in financial services for several years now. But lately the regulatory burden seems to be driving many in the industry into the realms of nervous breakdown, with 87% o...
Back from a couple of weeks in Mexico where it seemed the whole world was going steadily insane (or maybe that was just the tequila). Anyways, it was reassuring to start the week with another "wo...
Many businesses are still reeling from the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. It invites the question as to if, where and how Brexit will impact the way their UK businesses manage and process ...
Banks have taken a bit of a hit since Brexit. As a cyclical stock, banking in tandem with housebuilding and travel, has seen a considerable slide in share price. In the face of market volatility, inve...
Fitting the blockchain piece into an organization’s technology puzzle is going to require both business and technology transformation. Key to any such transformation is going to be in understanding th...
The UK’s Brexit vote threw traders and investors off-balance and disrupted global financial markets. After the UK’s June 23 referendum to leave the European Union, traders and investors awoke to a glo...
With so many apps in the app stores, it’s hard to get your mobile app noticed and you’ll quickly realise that great app development is only the beginning of your app life-cycle. This alone can be a pr...
Large, global banks process billions of transactions across service offerings to a plethora of customers across demographics, daily. In order to sustain effective operations, they must adopt cutting-e...
In my previous blog, we talked about letting the CAT out of the bag in order to make risk management more effective. The 'T' we talked about previously was 'transactions,' the other two being 'custome...
Today's banks are facing a common challenge across the globe: mounting technology costs and increasing compliance requirements. New organizations are surfacing at every nook and corner to disrupt norm...