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A Finextra Member

Conversational Banking Innovators and Challengers

Following on from my post on a conversational interface framework and the road to conversational interfaces, here's a quick overview of some of the innovators that have taken early advantage of conv...

04 Feb 2019
Urvish Macwan

How Technology Is Changing The Real Estate Sector

Industry 4.0 or digital transformation is a cultural change that our society is experiencing through the use of technology. This concept implies a new organization of the means of production that is c...

04 Feb 2019
A Finextra Member

The road to conversational banking

Banking Channels History Customer interaction and channels preferences have experienced significant changes over time and are constantly evolving and expanding across all industries, including banking...

04 Feb 2019
Bob Lyddon

Cheques to be excluded from UK's New Payments Architecture

Once again cheques in the UK are facing their demise, this time as a consequence of their being excluded from the New Payments Architecture project, or "NPA". This time it will be a slow and...

04 Feb 2019
Transaction Banking
Ambrish Parmar

Addressing unmet banking needs

Time to read: 5 minutes to gain a different perspective On a wet Sunday afternoon, I finally got around to ‘sorting out’ the loft. In our home, the loft is a sanctuary for old memories, captured in th...

03 Feb 2019
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Shailendra Malik

Innovation Enigma for Banks

Each use case that brings Machine learning in play, gets drenched in data. The industry is now waking up to the real challenge of deploying Machine Learning based models in traditional rule-based appl...

03 Feb 2019
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Richard Miller

KYC, GDPR and DLT pt2: Potential Solutions

In a previous article I looked at how Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) can be applied to the issue of making sure you understand who you are doing business with i.e. Know Your Customer (KYC). The o...

02 Feb 2019
Blockchain Observations
Bhavesh Vaghela

2019 Banking Predictions 6 mins read

I hope you all had a great festive period with loved ones and eased into the first month of 2019. Over Christmas I watched Back to the Future I, II, III with my kids (lets face it Christmas is not Chr...

01 Feb 2019
Fintech
Nicky Tozer

The Inexorable Rise of the CFO

“You need to be more strategic”. It’s a phrase every CFO has heard. This idea of innovation, strategy and overcoming inertia has been on the boardroom table for decades, but it seems it may finally be...

01 Feb 2019
Barley Laing

Open banking opens the door to fraudulent activity. How can it be combatted?

Open banking not only opens up a world of opportunity for financial services companies seeking to improve the customer experience, but also presents a potential gold mine for fraudsters, particularly ...

01 Feb 2019
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Lee Campbell

Storm clouds on the horizon?

Why effective and innovative credit risk management is no longer an option... Unbalanced economic growth In the year following the 2008 financial crisis, economic activity declined in half of all coun...

01 Feb 2019
Capital Markets Technology
A Finextra Member

Are payment cards under threat?

Consumers do not only compare how easy it is to make payments when buying goods with traditional providers, but also with other such as Amazon, PayPal and Google. As a result, they have expect payment...

01 Feb 2019
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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