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SIBOS 2015 clearly showed how banking is at an inflection point. Like every year, there is a general feeling that SIBOS 2015 helped raise the banks’ awareness of the values at stake and the challenges...
I had many a times thought before on why Banks create entry barriers to customers like Minimum balance, minimum income limit etc., etc., Who will then support all the aspirations people who are below ...
Why there is a need to develop a new method of addressing the KYC problem. A Tangential Stroll Ask anyone who has ever owned a mobile phone (or two) and an email address (or two) and they will tell yo...
04 January 2001. I took a flight to Eastern Europe (Poland) for the first time. Little did I imagine it is going to be the first of the many trips I would make time and again to Eastern Europe. I flew...
Sometimes you just can’t get enough of Donald Trump. No matter where you go, Trump it is! In your email, on your Facebook, on LinkedIn, especially by people who confuse LinkedIn with Facebook, on Twit...
We know of the potential for big data in financial services to detect fraud, to hunt down rogue traders, upsell services – the list is endless. Depending on who you talk to, big data is anything from ...
In the world of money transfer, I am always trying to explain to startups what it would take have a better understanding on transactions data points for cross-border transfers, i.e. visibility in paym...
Following NextBank Barcelona, Devie Monhan wrote a great piece about how banks are investing in FinTech, part of which jumped out at me: "The FinTech firms are putting more pressure on banks to i...
The rising availability of customer data means customer-centricity should be the top priority of every financial institution today. Faster moving, less regulated industries like retail and digital ser...
Traditionally banks have run Cash Management as proprietary business with little or negligible participation from other market players. It is one the biggest contributor of Current Account float and h...
I’m often asked by my fellow colleagues, 'what keeps me up at night?', to which I currently reply, 'an uncomfortable bed'. For those of you who have ever had significant home renovation, I know you wi...
The use of mobile payments by consumers has been rising steadily this decade, with the market size expected to reach $721.4 billion in mobile payment volume by 2017. With this rapid adoption it is nec...