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I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Sian Lewin who is currently Head of Client Delivery and Research at RegTech Associates and the Founder of the RegTech Women network. Breana: Thank you so much for doing this with us! Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path? Dr. Sian: It’s a pleasure! I think when we look ret...
12 February 2019 /ai /regulation
I recently attended Robotex 18 in Tallinn, Estonia, and watched a very interesting talk given by Koen Maris, CTO of Cyber Security at Atos. His talk seemed mildly inspired by Donald Rumsfeld’s quote, “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do...
12 February 2019 /security
Andrew Churchill ID & Authentication Standards author at MIDAS Alliance
On Thursday evening I was delighted to be speaking in Parliament on behalf of the MIDAS Alliance at the launch of Tech UK’s Digital IDs report, hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group in Digital Identity. This very well attended event heard of the opportunities afforded by getting digital identification & authentication right, ranging from...
11 February 2019 /regulation
Providing business loans at the real point of need – not just at your bank! What is LaaS? LaaS, sometimes referred to as the “Marketplace Lending” is an emerging trend in the banking and financial services sector where banks and lenders are leveraging new technology to surface their products and services on platforms outside of their traditional b...
06 February 2019
Ambrish Parmar Digital Leader, Strategist, at Thought leader and Start-up Advisor
Time to read: 5 minutes to gain a different perspective On a wet Sunday afternoon, I finally got around to ‘sorting out’ the loft. In our home, the loft is a sanctuary for old memories, captured in the form of books, papers, photos and other personal items. As I rummaged through an assortment of boxes, I picked up an old bank passbook. The passboo...
03 February 2019 /retail
Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Enterprise Search) at DBS Bank
Each use case that brings Machine learning in play, gets drenched in data. The industry is now waking up to the real challenge of deploying Machine Learning based models in traditional rule-based applications. Machine learning models are data guzzling engines whose accuracy and performance depends on the data quality and continuity. Imagine them a...
03 February 2019 /ai
Barley Laing UK Managing Director at Melissa
Open banking not only opens up a world of opportunity for financial services companies seeking to improve the customer experience, but also presents a potential gold mine for fraudsters, particularly through identity fraud. With more financial institutions than ever before sharing customer data in the open banking world, some of it fraudulent, ther...
01 February 2019 /regulation
Consumers do not only compare how easy it is to make payments when buying goods with traditional providers, but also with other such as Amazon, PayPal and Google. As a result, they have expect payments to be easy, convenient, flexible, secure – in some cases they even want to be rewarded for making transactions. Customers will not stay loyal to th...
01 February 2019 /payments
The saying goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” However, in the culture of today’s business market, the saying should be adapted to say, “If the existing risk management program is working, still see if there are areas for improvement with an independent assessment.” The reason is that enterprise risk management (ERM) programs are structured p...
30 January 2019 /regulation /wholesale
Rik Coeckelbergs Independent Advisor, Opinion Maker and Consultant at The Banking Scene
Many of you know that since November I am freelancing, discovering the world of banking and banking technologies. One of the great advantages of freelancing is that you can pick the projects you like to work on. Freelancing also generates time to think, to discover as well. Through my work of The Banking Scene, I got in touch with a small company i...
16 January 2019
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