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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

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RegTech Innovation and Closing Gender Gap in Regulation And Policy Making

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...

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The Unknown Unknowns

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...

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Andrew Churchill

Andrew Churchill ID & Authentication Standards author at MIDAS Alliance

2019 - the year we may finally get to grips with Digital Identifcation & Authentication

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...

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Lending-as-a-Service - Next generation Marketplace Loans

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...

Ambrish Parmar

Ambrish Parmar Digital Leader, Strategist, at Thought leader and Start-up Advisor

Addressing unmet banking needs

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...

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Shailendra Malik

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

Innovation Enigma for Banks

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...

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Barley Laing

Barley Laing UK Managing Director at Melissa

Open banking opens the door to fraudulent activity. How can it be combatted?

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...

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Are payment cards under threat?

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...

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Importance of Conducting Independent Assessment For An Enterprise Risk Management Function

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...

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Rik Coeckelbergs

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

The Semantic Bank

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...

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