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1. Introduction Microservices are the new hot trend in the application architecture landscape. Like SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and cloud a few years ago, "microservices" is the buzz...
Not so long ago statistics showed low adoption levels on Personal Finance Management (PFM) systems. Indeed, the 10-12% adoption rate can hardly be a strong motivation for banks to invest in PFM deve
While banking product portfolios tend to become similar, banks must select between 2 most popular strategies (or combine them): to compete in pricing or to focus on customer experience improvement.
Banks and other early Fintech companies, which were built on legacy or some other system are quickly realizing how difficult it is to make changes to their digital services. The recent evolution of cr...
Super apps are just appearing in the US and European countries, while in the Asian-Pacific region they already became a natural part of daily routine. So what are super apps and what is so special a
Banks have traditionally been closed entities, guarding their proprietary assets and frustrating Fintechs by focussing on scale and stability rather than innovation. The prevailing reaction to the eme...
Great identity verification should be top of the list when it comes to technological improvement in finance. The number of people using online services is increasing, as online banking grows at an ave...
2019 is a landmark year for the mobile industry: the introduction of foldable smartphones by firms including Huawei, LG and Samsung is one of the most significant developments that market sector has s...
As the “shift-left” mindset begins to take hold, it is important to remember that embedding key technical practices earlier in the delivery pipeline will only deliver value if all teams are prepared a...
In the first part of this article: we used a lot of statistical data to back up our focus on the lifestyle banking trend specified millennials as the target audience accentuated the promotion of ban...
Banks are now focused on a seamless end-to-end digitalized experience for their customers and their primary target audience is the millennials. Born between the late ’70s and mid-’90s (according to Ni...
With the world’s largest institutions facing an existential threat from new fintech challengers, all eyes are on the DevOps team and their in-house lab to drive their own innovation in response. Howev...