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On 22nd November, the UK government reaffirmed its commitment to having a leading regulatory and technology environment in the UK. Within the Autumn Budget 2017 speech, the Rt Hon Philip Hammond announced a new £10bn Regulators’ Pioneer Fund, established to “help regulators to develop innovative approaches aimed at getting new products and service...
29 November 2017 /regulation /startups
Imagine taking a regular smartphone and turning it into a payment acceptance device with a simple app download. That’s the utopian dream many companies are chasing today and it could bring huge benefits to the payments ecosystem, merchants and consumers as card and mobile payments continue to grow. For small transactions, accepting a payment could...
29 November 2017 /payments
During the last decade the term “cloud” has become a mainstream keyword in most of IT topics. The cloud has changed the way institutions and companies are managing their needs. As a concept, when discussing regarding the cloud is actually talking about moving away from the product purchase orientation towards a service delivery one. Hence, custo
27 November 2017 /startups
Kunal Patel Product Director at Worldpay
I get asked this question a lot by the corporate community with whom I am typically engaged with, usually this would comprise of senior figures from the BFSI community. The people I am usually in conversation with have never worked for a start-up, let alone have had any professional dealings with any. For those that know me well, I am not short of...
13 November 2017 /startups
Sarah Jackson
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Challenger banks are doing what their name suggests, and research indicates they are gaining ground. For established lenders, replicating the characteristics of their smaller, more agile competitors, will help them defend their position. Outsourcing is the key, argues Sarah Jackson, Director, E...
09 November 2017 /retail
While the financial services industry has traditionally been at the forefront of technological change, until recently it was cautious about embracing the cloud. Questions of trust, quality of providers, certifications, process, and teams dedicated to serve customers contributed to murky cloud adoption. But as CIO roles drastically shift from opera...
08 November 2017
Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd
Juniper Research believes the emergent evidence from using Chatbots has the potential to replace the tasks of targeted human workers through fluent conversations with human users. They believe that Chatbots will undertake the following key tasks: Handle conversational interactions with human users Seamlessly handoff to human agents Trigger autom...
03 November 2017 /ai /regulation
As we move towards the end of 2017 , the blockchain buzz is only heating up with unique and interesting applications and use cases across all industries, all geographies and all sizes of organizations. In this post I am sharing a round-up of some of the interesting stories of blockchain in action for Oct 2017. BP experiments with blockchain for ...
03 November 2017
Raj Chaudhary Financial Service Consultant at Infosys
Fintech has been a talk in town since long now. Regtech, on the other hand is still being discussed a fad or future. It’s time. Regtech, slowly but steadily is becoming the BUZZWORD in regulatory compliance. Regtech was received well sometimes with open hands and sometimes seen with uncertainty. Here we discuss Regtech, its evolution and landscape...
30 October 2017 /regulation /inclusion
Tim Carmody VP Network Services Engineering at IPC
Cloud-based applications have come into the forefront and offer a lot of advantages for flexibility, simplified deployment, upgrade and support. But as new cloud offerings continue to dominate and push further into the capital markets and business-critical systems, customers and the overall market are also beginning to look more closely at risks i...
25 October 2017 /inclusion
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