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Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Latest thinking in respect to Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation. Harnessing our collective wisdom to make banking better. Ambrish Parmar

Barley Laing

Barley Laing UK Managing Director at Melissa

Is now the time for one global ID verification data source?

It is an inescapable fact that for effective ID verification, and therefore KYC and AML compliance, financial services companies need to access to billions of records in real-time to ensure adequate checks are made while onboarding a new customer, and deliver that all-important smooth customer experience. The issue is, if you are a financial servi...

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Global Asset Management in 2020

Amid unprecedented economic turmoil and regulatory change, most asset managers have afforded themselves little time to bring the future into focus. But the industry stands on the precipice of a number of fundamental shifts that will shape the future of the asset management industry. One such shift is globalization. More than 40% of asset managers ...

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Prasoon Mukherjee

Prasoon Mukherjee Director | Head of Securities Services | GSC-India at Societe Generale Bank

Privacy By Design - How IT systems may evolve in banks under GDPR

A lot is being read, written or heard about GDPR – it’s relevance, implications to institutions that collect personal data, and ramifications of non-compliance. Therefore, this will not deal with any of these in detail. Keeping it simple we will try exploring 4 specific impact points within financial institutions because of this regulation, and th...

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The valuation of banks in a more fragmented market

This is the first in a series of blogs looking at the top 10 banking trends highlighted by Accenture for 2019. Building on their predictions, I plan to explore some of the themes raised, starting with the topics of fragmentation of the market and bank valuation. Banking – unlike manufacturing, for example – has been built as a vertically integrate...

Prasoon Mukherjee

Prasoon Mukherjee Director | Head of Securities Services | GSC-India at Societe Generale Bank

Settling the skepticism over JPM Coin

During the past week and this weekend, the financial services industry has witnessed an overdoze of journalism surrounding JP Morgan's first (big) entry into the crypto-coin space and most of it is focused around questions related to Jamie Dimon's previous critical views about "Bitcoin" when he had said - "You cant have a business w...

Rik Coeckelbergs

Rik Coeckelbergs Independent Advisor, Opinion Maker and Consultant at The Banking Scene

15 years to rediscuss the gentlemen’s agreement on 24 free cash withdrawals

By Rik Coeckelbergs Dear journalists, dear Test Aankoop, dear politicians, Last weeks there were 2 news items worth discussing: Belfius has its API marketplace made public. This is a huge step in the direction of a more innovative, and more competitive market, in line with the ambitions of PSD2 bpost bank communicated price increases, including a ...

Rik Coeckelbergs

Rik Coeckelbergs Independent Advisor, Opinion Maker and Consultant at The Banking Scene

Instant Payments,  Instant Revenues... it's complicated

By Rik Coeckelbergs Instant Payments generate a lot of buzz in the industry of payments, for years already. Everyone likes to have their opinion heard on it: Banks, Central Banks, Software Providers, Consultants… all talk about Instant Payments. Instant Payments is needed, you hear, otherwise Bigtech or Fintech will take over. The banks are more he...

Shailendra Malik

Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Enterprise Search) at DBS Bank

Are we doing justice with Agile?

DISCLAIMER: I AM WRITING THIS AS A PROVOCATEUR AND INTENTION IS TO STIR UP THE POT, AS IT IS ONLY THE CHAOS THAT WILL GIVE BIRTH TO INNOVATION. I WELCOME YOU TO THE DEBATE BUT, BEFORE YOU JOIN READ WHAT FOLLOWS… If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough. . – Mario Andretti The famous quote, has all the elements to sending ch...

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Real time payments significant impact on Financial Services

As real-time payment rails expand geographically, there’s an underlying infrastructure that allows payments to be paid to anyone at anytime, anywhere. These payments can be account-to-account (e.g., VocaLink and debit cards) or with underlying credit approval (e.g., Visa and Mastercard). The movement of money, once the preserve of banks, is now op...

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Blockchain Platform -Scope for Intraday Liquidity Management

Across the globe, Liquidity Management continues to be key function for bank treasurers. As Corporate Banks / Financial Institutions seeks to have safe and secured platform to enable more robust measuring and monitoring capabilities of cash management. Blockchain platform enables banks to have secured network and enable real time / Intraday / End ...

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