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A community to discuss the future of financial services and any other interesting trends, strategies, ideas, views.
It’s been a boom year for startup financing in Europe, which is great news because the world needs innovative startups to take on the big challenges it's facing, from pandemic recovery to climate chan...
By now, most organisations in the business of delivering software will likely have a DevOps strategy. Even if adoption is only partial, the maturity of DevOps enables firms to improve delivery by impl...
The move from traditional credit card and consumer-finance solutions to more customer-centric payment solutions has undoubtedly been accelerated by the pandemic. As we emerge into a new cashless era (...
Back when we first heard of Bitcoin in 2009, many brushed off the cryptocurrency as just a new fad, refusing to believe that technology had the power to impact such a stalwart industry as finance. Now...
As climate change continues to move up the agenda of not just policy makers, but also the wider public, many of us were glued to watching the events unfold at this year’s annual United Nations Climate...
Telephone banking and chatbots unsurprisingly proved popular for customers during the pandemic because of how they allowed them to interact with people at their bank in a safe and convenient way. Rese...
Midsized financial institutions must pay close attention to anti-money laundering Midsized financial institutions (with $1 billion - $10 billion in assets) play an essential role in our financial syst...
While many financial players are investing heavily in transforming the credits domain, the financing products themselves have not changed significantly in the last few decades. Instead, innovation is ...
‘Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood and online fraud When blackness was a virtue the road was full of mud I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form Come in, she said I'll giv...
Saying that blockchain is a universal technology would not give an actual idea of the scale: the chain technology has already been implemented successfully in completely different domains and is curre...
"It’s about me, here and now" can be considered as the catch phrase for customer centricity. In the banking industry this means providing financial services 24/7 via any channel (including t...
Twenty years ago, Prime Money Market Fund (PMMF) assets were equivalent to 11.9% of U.S. GDP. Today, following a decade of scapegoating and regulation, they are down to a miniscule 2.3%. Commercial p...