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Today, a well-established correspondent network is a major strength for many banks and payment services. If earlier the client’s choice and demand for services were driven by the size of the advertising budget, right now the issues of financial logistics are in the forefront: how the client money will be transferred to different countries and regi...
13 May 2019 /regulation /startups
Ten years ago, when we thought about where to keep our money, it was either in long standing, trusted banks, or under long standing, trusted mattresses. But recently, this space has exploded (and continues to explode) with myriad of startup mobile banks and cryptocurrencies. Right along side these new fintechs has come incident after incident invo...
13 May 2019 /security
Andrew Hewitt Director Payment & Data Solutions at FIS
We're all familiar with QR codes by now. We’ve seen them printed nonchalantly on Car Magazine adverts, event tickets and glossy posters. Across Europe and the US, we recognise them as a way to access an event or engage with a brand, directing us to ‘find out more’ via their webpages. Fundamentally, we consider QR codes to be convenient access poin...
26 April 2019 /payments
Paul Marcantonio Head of UK/Western Europe at Ecommpay
The payment services world is more competitive than ever. With numerous providers competing to serve thousands of businesses, things can get more than a little hectic as payments companies try to carve out some space for themselves in a crowded market. A lot of the time, this translates to providers ruthlessly cutting their prices relative to thei...
17 April 2019 /payments
London was home to many European fintech companies - currently almost 50% of all payment institutions of the European Economic Area (EEA) are clustered in the UK. However, Brexit means that they will face the risk of losing authorization to provide financial services within the European Union (EU), e.g., lose the opportunity to serve clients from ...
16 April 2019 /regulation
Bartlomiej Szymanski Business Consultant at Ailleron
Evaluating customer journeys and business models are more relevant than ever. The service model is changing accordingly to sales and service processes which are enabled in digital channels. Regardless many improvements in the area of customer journeys, instant human assistance plays a key role in encouraging customers to use online and mobile bank...
11 April 2019 /retail
The world will never be the same again - regardless of when and under what conditions Brexit will actually happen (and whether it will happen at all): certain things, including the financial world, will never go back to the way they were. First and foremost, financial companies with British licenses have realized the risk of losing authorization t...
05 April 2019 /regulation
Compressed margins and fear of disruption by tech giants is driving asset managers to search for new ways to raise revenue, reduce costs, and develop new funds and products. But these trends also imply a significant amount of unpredictability and operational turmoil that some managers’ IT teams are unprepared for. Pressures on asset managers are b...
04 April 2019
More and more financial institutions are driving value by collaborating with Fintechs, usually by leveraging open APIs. This strategy is in direct contrast to the way in which banks have traditionally managed their businesses, which is to directly own technology resources and keep everything firmly closed. Increasingly being referred to as the pla...
29 March 2019 /devops
Damien Cabadi Chief Financial Officer at Spirit Asset Management
After several years of fruitless siege, Greeks hid their best warriors in a giant wooden horse and left Troy. The Trojans brought the statue in the city to celebrate their victory. But after a night of celebration, the Greeks jumped out from the wooden horse and opened the city gates to the rest of the Greek army. Is history condemned to repeat it...
29 March 2019 /startups
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