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Beware of compelling ideas that are too logical... The story has been told over and over. Steve Jobs looked at Segway and said... I want 10% of this action for $63 million. The inventor Dean Kamen s
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George Osborne hopes to make London a fintech leader, but the Brexit threatens the industry’s survival. Why would Britain champion this booming industry only to destroy it? Modern politics is all abou...
SWIFT has become the backbone of the financial market from 1973. SWIFT has proven the scalability, security, resilience and created the history that is the trust in the network. SWIFT has provided a n...
On April 6th, a new law comes into force regarding the mandatory embedding of ID microchips in dogs. The UK is a nation of dog lovers, where being a dog is even a key requirement of winning "Brit...
In my previous blogs, I have written about the importance of the Millennial generation and how this group is changing the face of wealth management. It is this very same generation that are driving te...
A seemingly innocuous news item from my good friend John Detrixhe at Bloomberg got us all chatting here at Fidessa Towers this morning. The story was about how Eurex Clearing was going to allow large...
With MiFID II now confirmed and MAR just around the corner, leading surveillance platform provider Alerts4 Financial Markets examines the key questions facing financial institutions having to increase...
Abstract : Fintech or Financial technology, is an industry combining and grouping companies that are making financial services including insurance services more efficient and advanced; with use of tec...
A colleague recently attended the 2016 ‘March of the Droids’ (a conference, or gathering, for Android enthusiasts) and one of the presentations was about embedded NFC Chips - the history, their use, t...
You hear a buzz of excitement coming from the direction of the sales team, and you can see by the smiles that there has been a big win. They catch your eye and gesture for you to come over as, after a...
With the new banking licenses issued to Payment Banks by India’s banking regulator RBI, the country will witness new trends in digitized banking. The models can pave the way for a different customer e...