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Internet of things – More there are, more we bank on them As the number of connected devices slowly creeps past unnoticed catching up with the number of humans on the planet, we are beginning to rely on them increasingly. The possibilities as much a cliché as it would be – are endless: ¡ Connected cars will pay tolls automatically, not require you...
23 January 2020 /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Yagneswara Sarma Bulusu Consulting Partner at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.,
Abstract Custodian banks continue to grapple with cost pressures, operational challenges, and legacy infrastructure. The advent of disruptive technologies such as blockchain, robotic process automation (RPA), and cognitive technologies have helped custodian banks to resolve these challenges. In Part 1, of a two part series, we examined the potent...
22 January 2020 /ai /markets Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Philippe Carrel Chief Commercial Officer at Finmechanics
Neither IBORs nor RFRs; firms should ready up to work with both types of benchmarks and reference rates for the foreseeable future. The quantitative finance focused publications of 2019 have highlighted that replacing forward looking term rates (IBORs) with convexity-adjusted overnight rates compounded in arrears (RFRs) could lead to discrepancie...
21 January 2020 /regulation /markets Banking Regulations
Abstract Custodian banks are facing a slew of challenges such as cost pressures, operational inefficiencies, and aging legacy applications. Disruptive digital technologies such as blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and intelligent automation systems such as cognitive computing tools and decision...
21 January 2020 /markets Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Sheza Gary Project Strategiest at Self Employed
Forex rates are fickle, and subject to whipsaw pricing at any given time. The EUR/GBP currency pair is a case in point. On June 23, 2016, Britons voted for Brexit, gaining a slight majority over their opponents. In the years since, Labour and Tory party members have battled tooth and nail to come to consensus about the best path for Brexit. Prime ...
16 January 2020 /markets Trends in Financial Services
Alex Kreger Founder and CEO at UXDA Financial UX Design
There are two different approaches to gain business success. One worked in the recent past and the other works in the digital present. Marketing age In the recent past, FMCG (Fast-Moving Consumer Goods) products dominated the market and determined business principles, user behaviors and the mindset of successful entrepreneurs. One of the core chal...
15 January 2020 /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
The relationship between the financial markets and the investor is quietly, but fundamentally, changing. A series of regulatory changes has or will require clients to be treated fairly (TCF), ensure they are better informed (MiFID II), and fully encouraged to participate in the long-term sustainability of the assets they own (SRD II). Each of the
14 January 2020 /wealth /markets Fintech
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
China has been on a long self-improvement journey and has been tackling all of the areas that could contribute to its global leader status. The financial sector is obviously one of them. Despite the rocky cryptocurrency journey, its efforts to regulate it by issuing government-regulated cryptos and bashing the industry while promoting blockchain, ...
09 January 2020 /inclusion /markets Financial Inclusion
Rowland Park CEO at Limeglass Limited
We are living in an age of information overload where businesses are swamped with information from all angles. What happens when companies don’t use information in the best way possible? Rowland Park and Simon Gregory, co-founders of next-generation financial research technology company, Limeglass, argue that the true cost of not optimising financ...
08 January 2020 /markets Fintech
CSD Regulation (CSDR), was first published into the official journal by ESMA in August 2014 aimed at improving securities trade settlement in the European Union on EU central securities depositories. Although some predict further delay in implementation, it is scheduled to come into force in September 2020, more than six years since it was first t...
07 January 2020 /regulation /markets Trends in Financial Services
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