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Ian Stone

The Sales Challenge: What Can SPM Investment Offer Today’s Sales Force?

There is a very compelling argument that the sales team represents the engine room of any organisation. After all, what is more fundamental to a business than the ability to sell its product or serv

08 Jun 2015
Ketharaman Swaminathan

Will Millennials Bankrupt Neobanks?

Many a neobank seems to be founded on the premise that Gen Y and Gen Z (collectively "Millennials") are digital natives and prefer digital interactions to physical ones in everything includi...

08 Jun 2015
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Using wearables to monitor injury and recovery: what the insurance and healthcare industries can learn from sport

Injury or subpar performance are risk factors that the professional sports industry spends many millions of pounds/ dollars trying to mitigate. Professional sports teams are starting to use commercial...

08 Jun 2015
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The new UK payments regulator: a carbon copy of its Payments Council?

Inertia set to condemn UK merchants to £1B ($1.56B) of extra costs. The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR)’s March 2015 Policy Statement includes exemptions for Visa and MasterCard and reveals no strateg...

08 Jun 2015
Neil Crammond

Central banks QE medicine no longer working!

This round of buying was caused by the spike in Bund yields which popped to come within a whisker of the 1% level as the bond rout in European fixed income markets continued. Yesterday, during the ECB...

08 Jun 2015
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DIGITAL BANKING Tips - Tip 20: Digital Analytics

Reducing cost to serve was the first motivation while banks started to invest in Digital Banking. The idea was simple: migrating the transactions from branches (high cost channel) to self-service chan...

08 Jun 2015
Innovation in Financial Services
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A Very Personal Confession ... I Love Regulation

Last week I was with yet another banking customer, discussing innovation in payments. Another presenter brought up the obligatory slide with an update on payments and banking regulation, and the cost...

08 Jun 2015
Innovation in Financial Services
Mick Fennell

Arab banks - at the tipping point of payment systems change?

Are Arab banks ready to make major changes to their payment processing infrastructures? Before answering that question we probably need to ask why? Do they really need to make changes? Why would they...

07 Jun 2015
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Big Data and Financial services

There is a new universe called Data created by mobile devices, social media, web blogs, RFID and other sources. Big Data is the next generation of data warehousing and business analytics and is poised...

06 Jun 2015
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Understanding Big Data Quality for Business Decision

Nowadays, Organization extensively started to utilize massive data sets for the purpose of analysis. Big data has become innovative but in the context of Data quality vs Data governance is still rais

06 Jun 2015
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Master Data Management - How Smart Companies Manage their Data

Big data is a resource that helps organizations to understand and take control or corrective action to address problems such as customer-centric service delivery, by accurately joining big data with M...

06 Jun 2015
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Why Big Data Big Analytics

The importance of big data in the current technological environment is paramount. Industries are trying to identify the customer behavior and purchase trends to promote its product. Industries like h...

06 Jun 2015

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