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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.

Anthony Walton

Anthony Walton CEO at Iliad Solutions

IT spend at EU banks set to increase

But can they successfully innovate? According to a recent news article on Finextra, 62% of European financial institutions expect to increase spending on payments technology throughout 2017. This major investment is being driven by the revenue-generating opportunities of instant payments and the need for increased operational efficiency. The repo...

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Chris Brown

Chris Brown CTO at Trusek AND Authentiq8 Me

Does PSD2 have to be complicated?

There has been a huge amount written about PSD2 recently and much of it appears to be, with the greatest respect, over complicating the issue. Very fundamentally, to provide for all of the requirements of PSD2, we have three transaction types: balance, transaction list / statement and payment. Obviously, since these requests are coming from co...

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Stacey Small

Stacey Small Business Development at The Glue

Is Apple about to take a bite out of the retail banking industry?

At the latest Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, June 17 2017, Apple confirmed the rumours that they will create their own payments service which will be linked with Apple’s mobile wallet, Apple Pay. This will allow users to send money directly to their contacts via iMessage. Currently Apple Pay only allows users to load thei...

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Retired Member 

Banking on frictionless customer journeys

In 2014, the “age of the customer” was born as a phrase and remained largely abstract. But fast forward just a few years and in 2017, it is the holy grail for businesses – especially banks. We have now welcomed a new digital age of customers who do not want to be told they must bank in a certain way or through certain channels. Customers want to be...

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Milos Dunjic

Milos Dunjic AVP, Payments Innovation Technology Solutions at TD Bank Group

W3C Web Payment Standardization As A Potential 3D Secure Killer?

The 3D Secure 1.0 framework was originally introduced to address lack of consumer authentication in legacy online environments, mainly in cases where online merchant and consumer were not engaged in face to face transaction, i.e. when there was clear lack of confidence that consumer who is paying, was the legitimate owner of the payment card used ...

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Chris Brown

Chris Brown CTO at Trusek AND Authentiq8 Me

An upgrade for Credit Unions and Community Banks?

Credit unions have been a hot topic for me this week. I have had two completely independent conversations with people about them. On Tuesday night I met a chap from the US at an investor summit who mentioned he felt the US credit unions, although more numerous than the UK, were technologically challenged. The following day I met with a group, from...

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Banking in turbulent times: why keeping customers loyal is more important than ever

The financial services industry is going through an almost unprecedented period of change. Whether political, regulatory, societal and technological, a range of forces have been at work to shift the landscape for good. Politically, it’s fair to say that the world has been dealt its fair share of turbulence in recent months, with Brexit, as well as ...

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Have banks solved their sales culture and shell account issue?

Well, the short answer is some are making deep organizational changes with their sales culture, and others are only getting started. Recently, I met with a number of banking customers for pre- and post-sale consulting on global CRM and Sales Automation projects. In addition, earlier this month, I attended PegaWorld 2017, our premier annual confer...

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Chris Brown

Chris Brown CTO at Trusek AND Authentiq8 Me

What will replace the card schemes?

There has been much talk recently about how card payments will replace cash altogether in the future. I have talked previously about my opinion that the card schemes (Visa, MasterCard, Amex etc) are past their sell-by date and we need an alternative. I have also discussed my vision of a future with a different type of payment network support

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Milos Dunjic

Milos Dunjic AVP, Payments Innovation Technology Solutions at TD Bank Group

Chequing Bank Account In The Age Of Digital Banking?

There was time when people used cheques, and used them a lot. Cheques once accounted for 86 percent of all non-cash payments, and were the hot new payment technology. After second World War, the Americans adopted cheque writing like never before. In 1940s and 1950s, the overall number of ‘chequing accounts’ (frequently spelled as a 'checking accou...

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