1068 Results from 2020
Nikhita Hyett Managing Director - Europe at BlueSnap
As we approach the end of the year, the festive shopping season is in full swing. But in 2020, it’s turning out to be a very different experience for retailers and their customers. Bustling high streets have been replaced by virtual queues and Christmas lights traded for the glow of our digital devices, as we sit down to do our gift shopping onlin...
08 December 2020 /payments
Retired Member
When a financial sector customer becomes less active it is often an important signal that they have reached a new stage in their lifecycle, and critically need specific handling. We will look at some possible customer states that all share this common symptom but require quite different handling and priority from different business functions. The
08 December 2020 /identity /crime Data Management and Governance
Jussi Karjalainen CEO at Valtatech
How learning from 2020 will ensure your business thrives in 2021 The acronym VUCA was first used in 1987 to describe or reflect on the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity of general conditions and situations. The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed each of these four areas to their extremes, with many organisations facing greater volatili...
08 December 2020 /startups /covid-19 Business Knowledge for IT
David Fagleman Director at Enryo
On November 25th, the government’s call for evidence into plans to protect access to cash closed for submissions. The centrepiece of the proposals involved a change in legislation to allow cashback to be offered at shops without consumers having to make a purchase, as well as making the Financial Conduct Authority responsible for ensuring the cas...
08 December 2020 /payments /inclusion Financial Inclusion
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
You could argue that the main role of a bank is to increase the buying power of its customers, i.e. support their customers in increasing their assets. This can be through credits or investments. Both solutions make purchases possible, which can give a positive return in the future, i.e. an investment is a purchase of a financial product aiming to ...
08 December 2020 /retail Personal Finance
Amita Choudhary Marketing Manager at Princeton Growth Accelerator
Artificial intelligence is still a rapidly growing field, and we keep discovering many new uses for it in various different spheres. And while it’s not clear how long this growth and progress will continue for, one thing is certain right now – it’s reasonable to expect quite a lot in the coming months of 2020. In fact, we might be at a stage where...
07 December 2020 /cloud Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Software testing is regularly subject to trade-offs - that is, attempting to cover as much of a codebase as is possible given time and resource constraints. Sometimes known bugs slip through to release and go unfixed because they are deemed low-risk. Within fintech, even small bugs can have serious repercussions for a development team… and for the...
07 December 2020 /devops Fintech
Collective intelligence and dialogic communication are possibly alien concepts amongst the banking and financial services community. Many senior leaders would likely dismiss it as irrelevant to their particular responsibilities and business objectives. I’m sorry to say that if this is the case, they are missing a trick. Strategising in the world ...
07 December 2020 /covid-19 Innovation in Financial Services
The payments industry is experiencing significant disruption because of rapid technological change, increasingly diverse consumer demands, and new entrants all competing for the consumer’s loyalties. Payments organisations are generally responding to this competitive landscape through one of two investment strategies: To remain locked in an expen...
07 December 2020 /payments /cloud Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
07 December 2020 /payments /inclusion Financial Inclusion
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