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A new report on the experience of retail banking customers painted a sobering picture of a banking industry slowly loosing touch with its customer base and threatened by all sides by new innovative en...
Shockwaves following the trading scandals and the fallout from the Swiss Franc / Euro decoupling are reminders of the need for evolution in foreign exchange markets. Compliance and communication are ...
Wearables are huge – everyone is talking about how to make the plethora of increasingly commercially-viable technologies into successful products for the mass market. Crowdfunding site already carry a...
As summer weather and events like Wimbledon put extra demand on retailers, they are turning to agile database architectures Retail is a continuously shifting space, where not only the products we buy,...
Remember the days of the Chief Learning Officer - the person who told you what to study, when and where? This was usually in a classroom and then later - a virtual classroom. Surely in this era of cho...
Today Apple Pay launched in the UK - signalling the start of a new era. Since Apple Pay launched in USA last October, a UK launch has been expected, to mark the start of a new level of use of mobile...
The industry’s most talked-about mobile payment method has arrived in the UK. With its seamless customer experience and Apple’s trademark cool-factor, Apple Pay is generating a buzz from businesses an...
A while ago on Twitter I confessed the term "FinTechS" irks me. The plural. It's a new phenomenon and maybe we are just using it to be hipsterishly "in" but there is something abou...
The majority of single-dealer platforms (SDPs) – especially those of regional banks, provide mainly principal (rather than agency) based pricing to clients. That’s where the bank takes the other side ...
An IDC report released last week cited what may seem like a staggering number – that banks are forecasted to spend $16.6 billion on digital transformation initiatives this year. Additionally, by 2019,...
Rapid growth of payment systems make's it's market prospective for software solutions suppliers. What is the most important principles for companies that work in with payment systems? What solution pr...