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A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.
Even if you’re not a devotee of the iPhone, it’s impossible to have missed the arrival of Siri, Apple’s newest recruit. Whilst Siri isn’t going to pass the Turing test any time soon, it does signify t...
In wallet war times it makes you wonder whom you should regard as your best partner. Should your friends be the same as you are, very different, have the same market reach, etc. For a bank working wit...
A lot of strategy papers have been written and inititiaves launched to further e-government. The topic is important - for enterprises competitiveness and tax payers. But too often these programs tend ...
Back in April, Forrester said the following about the PaaS market: “PaaS is the third-largest cloud category, with a market size of $820 million in 2011, and Forrester predicts steady growth as PaaS b...
Kazakhstan is moving to e-invoicing with the help of the needed deadline for paper: http://bx.businessweek.com/e-invoicing/view?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sharedserviceslink.com%2Ffile%2F93958%2Fe-invoicing...
I am wondering on the origins of "market trust" and its relation to innovation. Why do some organizations create and more importantly, sustain their market trust and credibility? More specif...
Canada joining the self-evident model - reuse what citizens already are used to, is secure and saves tons of tax payers money. https://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=23132 When will y...
Fraud prevention for financial institutions should be on the top of the agenda for banks and it seems their customers are beginning to think so too. Aite Group surveyed North American financial instit...
Earlier this summer, a story appeared in the press about a new Israeli company, face.com, which claims to provide the ability to recognise a photograph of a face on the web, create an algorithm based ...
This week, McKinsey and EFMA issued a report on the future of mobile banking in Europe. Is it a surprise? Not exactly. What strikes me about the report is that whilst banks admit that they are not in...
A clutch of recent news stories makes all too clear the opportunities and the challenges of the mobile payments revolution. First up, research from Barclays Corporate forecasts that m-commerce in the...
Recently I've been discussing with bankers, economists, strategists and futurists the future of the banking industry. At a time when we've got the likes of the"Occupation of Wall St" (#OWS)...