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In my last piece, I argued that there were three major factors driving a transformation to a digital office in financial services; the physical rearchitecture of the workspace to accommodate more coll...
The 2016 Global Terrorism Index reported a 650% increase in deaths from terrorism amongst OECD member countries. In this environment, it is no surprise that governments are making a strong attempt to...
Fundraising... The eternal topic at of any start-up conversation. And understandably so. Funding is scale, scale is success. Success is happiness… Right? After raising the biggest ever Aussie A-round ...
To have a mobile proposition is a given for lenders today. In a 2017 mortgage efficiency survey 80% of lenders provide affordability calculations, 66% can process a decision in principle and over hal...
I saw a post earlier this week which asked what mobile banking would look like in the future. There were a few responses discussing personal dashboards, statements with PFM insights, chat banking etc....
You can’t successfully become a data led organisation without the right leadership. A recent study, conducted by Forrester in collaboration with Atos, found that the adoption of data analytics is alr...
In today’s ‘age of the customer’, focus on customer experience (CX) has increased continuously. According to a Walker study, by 2020 CX will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator....
Extensibility is one of the most important aspects of software design. In an increasingly connected and interdependent world, this design principle becomes more and more of a must for any software sys...
When we look into our vast universe, we see celestial objects, gases, asteroids and meteors. What we don’t see, and often ignore, is the matter that interconnects everything. Dark Matter, or as renown...