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Innovation in Financial Services

A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.

Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger Founder and CEO at UXDA Financial UX Design

The Future of Banking: Digital Revolution Demands a Whole New Model

For years, traditional banks built their reputations on physical branches and face-to-face customer relationships. But today, they face an existential challenge: nimble Fintech startups are emerging on a global scale, offering convenience, efficiency and mobile reach that simply can’t be matched by local branches alone. Like the shift from local n...

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Aymeric Monod-Gayraud

Aymeric Monod-Gayraud Co-Founder at LoanTube (#Sifted100)

How Digital Credit Marketplaces Became More than a Middleman

There’s a persistent myth in UK financial services that credit brokers are simply comparison engines, digital middlemen shuffling applications from one side of the internet to another with little added value. This outdated perception ignores how technology has fundamentally transformed the role of digital credit marketplaces, delivering additional...

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Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger Founder and CEO at UXDA Financial UX Design

Stop These 10 Toxic Behaviors to Unlock Innovations in Your Digital Banking

In the high-stakes world of digital products, many banks and financial organizations face a fundamental yet often overlooked challenge: a dysfunctional team dynamic that hinders both innovation and progress. The most common solutions—team-building exercises, new management frameworks or injecting more resources—may seem logical. However, these app...

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Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger Founder and CEO at UXDA Financial UX Design

Slow Digital Transformation and UX Inaction Are Costing Banks Their Customers

In a world where trust is everything, stability has been banking’s ultimate badge of honor—but is it enough to stay ahead? In today’s fast-moving digital world, clinging to the “tried and true”—outdated white-label frontends and legacy core systems—can be a costly illusion. While these systems may have served well five or ten years ago, maintainin...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

ID-wallets and AI-agents together. No-brainer by now?

My posts listed below probably describe the sun rising (a lot of repetition of course). The point being that ID-wallets are needed for security, trust, speedy adoption and getting legally binding deals - that only legal and natural persons can do. Newest on top. https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/28398/it-is-better-to-build-from-the-ground-up-act...

/ai /identity

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

ID-wallets integrating AI-agents - or the other way around?

Both directions are being explored right now, but they lead to slightly different futures. 🧠 1. ID Wallets Integrating AI Agents This means the wallet is the core product, and AI agents are embedded within it to assist the user. 📌 Examples: An AI assistant inside your digital ID wallet helps you decide which credentials to share

/ai /identity

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

ChatGPT beats me - hands down

Certainly improved my "Why AI Agents Should Have Identity Wallets" As AI agents become more integrated into workflows, services, and digital infrastructures, their trustworthiness and interoperability become critical. Identity wallets are the key to ensuring both. AI agents are of limited utility unless they can: Be trusted through veri...

/ai /identity

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Paradigm shifts with mobile devices

Mobey Forum was founded 25 years ago. We had a planning meeting today for the founders' panel discussion at the meeting hosted by UBS in Zurich in June. My input: In year 2000 we were working for a paradigm shift in banking – a joint effort between leading banks, VISA, Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and many others to take payments and other e-bankin...

/ai /identity

Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger Founder and CEO at UXDA Financial UX Design

13 Iconic Innovations to Future-Proof Your Digital Banking Service

Imagine the effortless satisfaction of a single-click purchase on Amazon, one tap Uber hail or the perfectly timed recommendations from Netflix—these aren’t happy accidents from generic experience. They have carefully enriched the digital experience, contributing to multi-billion dollar success. Thousands of banks and Fintechs try to tap into the ...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

AI-agents should have ID-wallets

Why? Because they are of limited use unless they can be trusted and be interoperable with your own organisational and personal ID-wallet and other AI-agents. Your customers, suppliers, the public sectors and your staff will have ID-wallets and thus be able to interact with them as instructed. It should also be underlined that even if AI agents...

/ai /identity

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