44 Results from 2016, /startups
Retired Member
In terms of Brexit news in general, personally I was shocked of the results. I did not expect the majority of the UK to vote “Leave”. We are living in a globalised society where social connectivity does not recognise any borders and is fair to say that "business" is operating in this space too, with UK and EU at the centre of the global ...
11 July 2016 /startups
Great feats of innovation can die a slow and unremarkable death if they are not adopted by the organization. Adoption requires a comprehensive approach to integration that recognizes the importance of how people work as well as a sound, technical implementation. Here are three keys to maximizing the adoption of innovative solutions across the orga...
29 June 2016 /startups Innovation in Financial Services
Liam Lannon
If you think that the UK’s High Street banks have had it tough over the last few years, spare a thought for the new kids on the block… Sure, the big 4 have had to deal not only with the credit crunch, product mis-selling, systems failures and outages, increased regulation, the CMA, the FCA and new regulations such as MiFid II and soon – very soon –...
29 June 2016 /startups
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
When you consider the cutting edge of technology – the Internet of Things, drones, or telematics, for example – all these things have been quietly pioneered by insurers already to provide personalised products and services, years ahead of other sectors. Quite surprisingly, you might say that insurance is very much at the forefront of the fintech
24 June 2016 /regulation /startups
Jamie Campbell Commercial lead at Bud
If you haven't heard, challenger bank Mondo now has to change its name due to trademark issues. They have called for a crowdsourced name to "involve the community" as much as possible. In doing so they have had to stipulate that Banky McBankface would not be an accepted suggestion, explaining that "suggestions need to begin with an...
16 June 2016 /retail /startups
Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase’s Chief Executive, made some interesting remarks recently on data aggregation: "They take more of your data than they need to; Many of them sell the data to outsiders in a way that benefits them but not you; They often take your data every day, for years, even if your account is inactive; If your money disappears b...
02 June 2016 /retail /startups
Machine Learning is getting a lot of buzz. I hear questions from our clients as we have successfully implemented it in our trading surveillance tool. We use machine learning to score the likelihood that trading activity is similar to known cases of spoofing, or layering. Did you catch that? We use Machine Learning for a specific business purpose. ...
25 May 2016 /startups Capital Markets Technology
There’s no doubt about it; some big changes are going on in the insurance industry. Recently, I attended our annual Insurance Forum, in London, and met with some key names in European insurance to discuss how the industry is innovating around new products, processes and technologies. Two years ago, we were talking about Digital Channels, Big Data, ...
16 May 2016 /startups
What do you do if you are: a Co-Founder of Tandem; an Alpha tester for Mondo; signed up for Starling; using Monese and still trying to figure out Atom's bubbles? You could be looking at 5 new cards in your wallet (or not - looking at you Curve!) and When the dust settles after this challenger bank explosion, you could have five new banks, as well ...
13 May 2016 /retail /startups
‘Banks need to enhance digital operations to fend off tech giants’ that was the headline I read recently on Forbes’ website. The article called upon the usual suspects Transferwise, Zopa & SoFi. Quoting their more nimble attributes as reasons they are better equipped to meet customer needs. And the author Roger Trapp is right. They are mor...
03 May 2016 /retail /startups
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