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A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.
NFC contactless payments, and P2P mobile payments are fast gaining momentum in the payments world. Banks, retailers, network operators, amongst others are all rushing for land grab, rolling out new NF...
I have just finished the morning sessions of ISITC in Boston. A great day so far. Lots of concern of expanding regulations, complexity,nchanges from Principles to rules based. All of this makes for th...
In the UK and Australia, account keeping fees are nothing new. In the US, however, since the introduction of the Durbin amendment, many US banks have been moving to monthly fees on checking accounts (...
It’s a new, exciting era for Trojan builders. The mobile space in 2012 is a virginal, unchartered territory that attracts the talent and creativity of black hatters and malware writers like moths to a...
Innovation Inside - Email on the Edge The Technology Lever Deloitte’s Center for the Edge recently published the 2011 Shift Index, which confirms an unsettling long term downward trend: publicly trade...
Personal Finance Management (PFM) is one of the hottest topics for banks today. Some of the banks are searching for the best vendor while others have already implemented PFM. Several banks are evaluat...
In the Times business section in the UK today, Andrew Haldane, the Financial Stability Director for the Bank of England was quoted as suggesting that we are entering a phase where the banking sector i...
After 5 weeks of extenuating negotiations, with dramatic scenes entries and bumpy price rides on the stock market, the negotiations between Temenos and Misys seem to have come to an end, as it was ann...
The new iPad just launched to the usual hype, anticipation and fanfare. Every time a new Apple product comes off the assembly line, it gets put under the biggest magnifying glass imaginable as crowds ...
It was interesting to see the figures from Financial Fraud Action UK yesterday, which showed a reduction in card fraud. As is often the case, however, what appear to be encouraging statistics disguise...
It is currently the rainy season here in Shanghai and as I left my hotel bound for the office this morning, it got me thinking of home. No, I was not thinking of the weather in the UK but the comparis...
Corporate banking is rife with manual invoicing and non-STP processes in the banking industry today. Legacy core processing systems were not built to handle the rule-based requirements that are needed...