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The financial services industry has arguably the most ground to make up to modernise its digital offering. As such, IT directors will have already saved the date of the EU’s open banking directive, ot...
In the past, penetration testing was a fancy name for breaking through a network firewall. However, as technology advances and breaches become even more dangerous – costing an average of £2.53 million...
The Brexit vote was not good news for UK fintech. As ‘Project Fear’ has fast become ‘Project Facts’ many will be now wondering how to navigate the political, regulatory and strategic minefield that th...
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It’s all about code—the building blocks of the Internet. Software code is full of unintentional defects. Governments are paying heavy prices to skilled hackers who can unearth these vulnerabilities, s...
More than a week has passed since the EU referendum which saw the United Kingdom vote to leave the European Union, but the sense of alarm that was initially felt is starting to moderate. Property fund...
Just about every call I get from a bank lately seems to ask, “What should we be doing about blockchain?” It depends who’s asking. Traditional banks should be doing one thing, whilst fintechs another. ...
Citigroup hit the headlines last week with the launch of its brand new initiative, Citi FinTech. Essentially an in-house start-up, Citi FinTech comprises a group of select employees who have been cher...
It seems like madness that in most companies, functional departments such as finance, IT, sales and operations can be rigidly separated with their own targets, KPIs and systems. They need to focus on ...
In terms of Brexit news in general, personally I was shocked of the results. I did not expect the majority of the UK to vote “Leave”. We are living in a globalised society where social connectivity do...
The increase in omnichannel banking requirements is driving the demand for high quality, trusted data to support customer engagement. While banks have been working with customers in real-time for quit...
Front Running (a.k.a. Trading Ahead) is the unethical practice of a trading based on information about a pending order or trade that someone else needs to make or will soon make. Using this private i...