It is hard to avoid hearing about Bitcoin these days as mention of the meteoric rise in value of the crypto-currency has become so prevalent in both the traditional and social media. What is less prevalent, but what should ultimately have a greater impact overall is the technology that underpins this phenomenon, namely Blockchain. Despite some ...
23 December 2017 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Increasing overhead and declining margins can drive an organization to the realization that a turn towards cost take-out strategies such as outsourcing might be the answer to improve their bottom line. However, the traditional business process outsourcing (BPO) to India or other lower cost locations is no longer the only possibility. Fast emergi...
02 April 2017 Innovation in Financial Services
There is an increasing amount of conversation related to the emerging technology called by the now over-used name of Blockchain. It seems an ironic use of that name since much of the actual news these days concerning solutions under development is likely not be a Blockchain solution at all, but a different form of Distributed Ledger Technology (D...
11 March 2017 Innovation in Financial Services
The recent announcement from DTCC, a financial industry services leader processing trillions of dollars of securities transactions on a daily basis, concerning the unveiling of a credit derivatives post-trade lifecycle solution built using a distributed ledger technology platform was not a surprise but certainly a milestone. If you’ve been follow...
11 January 2017 Innovation in Financial Services
So, what happened to banking and how did it go from being among the leaders in the development and implementation of technology to the image of being too big and too clumsy and the target of many, smaller and nimbler tech start-ups? There are a few explanations for this including that the image that is portraited in much of the tech media is neit...
05 January 2017 /payments Fintech innovation and startups
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Brennan CarleyManaging Principal at Proton Advisors
Josh GalperManaging Principal at Finadium LLC
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