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At a recent event I was asked to pick three technologies that could really upset the capital markets applecart. Blockchain, the distributed ledger technology that underpins Bitcoin, was one of those t...
At a recent meeting of technical leaders in the financial services community, we picked up on a previous discussion around Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and how, under continuous pressure to evolve and...
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With the rapid expansion of smartphones and tablet devices, more and more consumers are using their smartphones and tablets to conduct their daily activities as replacements for their personal compute...
Francisco González, chairman and CEO of Spanish banking group BBVA states that 50% banks in the world could disappear by ignoring digital transformations and that BBVA will be a software company not a...
Social CRM has been one of the hot topics for banking in recent years, especially after the strong existence of Social Media in our lives took place. From the banking point of view, it represents the ...
The major OTC FX platforms have now reported their Jun 15 volumes. In terms of spot FX, EBS and FastMatch show decent 5%+ gains, whilst Reuters spot volumes fall 1.8% to their lowest levels of 201...
A few weeks ago I had an interesting conversation in my children’s basketball club. The club manager explained that recently they have changed their approach to set up teams of young children. Traditi...
I recently read an article article that points out that banks are loosing touch with their customer base. Less people like the way banks treat them when the bank serve them electronically. Very quickl...
When someone online presents as a different person than their true self, this is called catphishing, and it occurs on online dating sites. Google the name of the object of your interest. Obviously, “...
It is now firmly accepted that regulation has become a natural part of the business environment in which many financial institutions operate. Dealing with a constant stream of regulation has become ‘T...
The prevailing mood after the financial crisis was that the market had been under-regulated; that situation has only intensified with subsequent scandals, and is no less true today in light of recent...