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As we overcome the ‘hype cycle ‘ with mushrooming technology innovations , banks in their quest for a ‘Next generation Banking ‘ model with ‘social media’ will have a forward integration with the dig...
Having taken several years to get through the review of MiFID, it was interesting to hear from ESMA chair Steven Maijoor last week that there is an appetite to “explore the mechanisms to address regul...
The definition of short circuit: “to force termination of an ongoing process before its natural conclusion by bypassing one or more intermediary steps” (Source: Wiktionary). Established industries ope...
It’s not often that we get to write about the only global report on crowdfunding worth talking about. And this one’s doubly special, as we’ve waited for over two years to receive this report by Masso...
In the digital world, the advent of social media, mobile including the smartphone takeover means that a population traditionally deemed too young to take financially independent decisions are in fact ...
According to the Future of Finance report by Goldman Sachs, 33% of millennials do not think they will need a bank in the next five years[1]. In fact, according to the Millennial Disruption Index, 73%...
Recently concluded Adobe Digital Marketing Summit in Salt lake city was clear indication of how Adobe is aligning its marketing offering for the future. In today's world, marketing does not end after ...
Never has there been more opportunities to build new ecosystems and infrastructures - and interconnect them. A very interesting aspect in this work is to see how one new or improved ecosystem is actin...
Here’s good advice from a sheriff’s office about how to protect your house. Burglars and home invaders don’t give a flying hoot if you keep thinking, “It can’t happen to me and this is a safe neighbor...
Now there’s a downer of an opening question if ever there was one to an IT sales person. All fresh faced, enthused by all the great news he had to impart and more than a dozen reasons why his company...
In the 1960’s the user name and password system for accessing computer systems was first deployed. In mid 1970’s the ATM card and PIN was first deployed and this evolved into the now ubiquitous ATM ca...
Currently, it doesn’t really matter whether dark trades are executed under the reference price waiver (RP), large in scale waiver (LIS) or a negotiated trade waiver (NT). However, under MiFID II, the ...