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Satya Swarup Das Director, Products/Solutions Management at Unisys
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly disrupted the banking and financial services business arena as it has done to many other facets of our lives. The word ‘contact’ is extensively associated with the pandemic with various ramifications. Hence ‘Contactless Banking’ has found a new meaning and speed of adoption post the pandemic period. Banking pr...
23 October 2020 /retail /covid-19
Retired Member
The lockdowns and the dread of going to crowded places have taken a toll on most of us, but not fintech companies. Europe, for example, has witnessed a 72% boost in fintech use. However, such a blessing can come with unwanted curses - the biggest one being new security challenges. The COVID-19 era is a complicated one, and not all of its problems ...
30 September 2020 /security
Gerard Hergenroeder Retired IBMer and Banking Executive at Payments Shark
It has been awhile since I last posted a blog. I am sure everyone is thinkling about potential credit losses as a result of rising unemployment rates. In the U.S. it now over 15%. During the great mortgage recession in 2007 loan losses peaked at 10%. It took almost 10 years to get the loss rate below 5%. Just prior to the recesssion losses averaged...
08 May 2020 /payments /retail
Thomas Muth FinTech and Retail Banking Specialist at SoftServe
This years’ Finovate Europe took place in Berlin. A three-day extravaganza that I attended at the Intercontinental Hotel - featuring the latest and greatest from the European FinTech scene. Despite Storm Chiara (or Storm Sabine dependent on where you are in the world) I made it to the conference in time, taking the ICE sprinter from Frankfurt to B...
17 February 2020
Financial institutions have traditionally been comfortable in maintaining the ownership of customer relationships. The digital disruption in last 3-4 years has pushed them to adopt newer ways of banking, especially due to advent of plethora of fintech companies and neo-banks. That phase is gradually settling down with banks adapting to the tsunami...
17 December 2019
The era of platforms has dawned. This is not only evident in the meteoric rise of the usage of “platform” companies by customers; but also in their valuations. The platform providers have found foothold in almost all fields – be it healthcare, retail, technology, entertainment, transport, hospitality and of course finance. In this blog, we will an...
06 December 2019
Anthony Pickup Consultant at Capgemini Invent
About a year ago I read news that researchers have devises how to make how we walk protect private information opens up an interesting use of biometric data. (https://techxplore.com/news/2018-08-artificial-neural-network-framework-gait.html) The solution described in the article describes how a personal device with motion sensors are capable of sec...
11 July 2019 /payments
Bhavesh Vaghela SVP B2B Product and Innovation at Collinson
Waiting for my flight home from Barcelona to sunny Luton here are some of my key take aways from MWC19. Artificial Intelligence The intelligence part of MWC is Artificial intelligence (AI). If you haven’t noticed there has been an evolution from internet of things to intelligence of things! Sensors, devices and software that can learn and make you...
04 March 2019 /ai
Milos Dunjic AVP, Payments Innovation Technology Solutions at TD Bank Group
Popularity of voice bot frameworks using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on the rise today. Even blockchain can’t compete with Alexa and Google Home anymore, in terms of the attention they are getting. They are in the press, on the radio and TV shows, basically everywhere. Techies and corporate executives, a w...
07 January 2019 /ai
Scott Cutler Director, at Fortinet
It seems like the whole world is talking about bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology – around dinner tables, at the pub, and even in government meetings. It has also become a hot topic in boardrooms, where discussions around bitcoin aren’t just focused on its ever-fluctuating value. For many organisations, the focus is around how c
05 October 2018 /security
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