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Why loyalty matters There is one simple reason why you should read this article. | “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” — Peter Drucker How do you keep a customer? With the help of loyalty. However, loyalty is one of those words that are frivolously thrown around left and right. What does loyalty truly mean, when it comes...
06 May 2017 /retail /startups Fintech innovation and startups
Abhishek Chatterjee Managing Partner at Gartner Inc.
Post financial crisis, FS institutes are mainly focusing on improving cost income ratio (reduce cost base), leverage ratios (improve quality of assets and comply with regulations) and return on equity (improve profitability). While banks were busy running a tight ship, there is a parallel ecosystem of fintech and other startups came along and start...
29 April 2017 /startups Fintech innovation and startups
Except for people at Fintech Meetups or students at business schools, no one actually thinks banking is “cool”. For them, it earns money – yes. It is necessary - yes. But cool? NO. The average citizen prefers dealing with his insurance company, rather than sitting down to do his financials, and more people would wear a t-shirt sponsored by a Trump ...
26 April 2017 /retail /startups
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
The dream of any product manager in the Financial Services sector has always been to come up with an idea for a new (or improvement on an existing) financial product or service in the morning and have it implemented in the afternoon. Unfortunately the harsh reality is that Unfortunately the harsh reality is that adapting the IT solutions typically...
07 April 2017 /startups
Shriyanka Hore MD, Market Infrastructures and Standards Services at Swift
'Technical Debt' - Making sense of the Metaphor In 1992 Ward Cunningham - the man who created the first Wiki coined a metaphor called 'Technical Debt' . The term later went on to be called 'Code Debt' and sometimes 'Design Debt' . Extremely revered in software engineering circles , Cunningham was seen as a pioneer for design patterns and extreme ...
03 April 2017 /regulation /startups Banking Architecture
CBInsights quote "Venture Capital Funnel Shows Odds of Becoming a Unicorn Are Less than 1%" seems to imply everything else is failure. I strongly disagree. They reinforced this impression by saying further down in the article "70% of companies end up either dead, or become self-sustaining (maybe great for the company but not so great...
30 March 2017 /startups
During my army service, I saw slogans all over my army unit walls and written on memorials for brave soldiers: "Glory will be awarded to the daring," "Shock and Awe," "Use the element of surprise.” These slogans encouraged initiative and the need to be first in order to achieve success. These might be true statements, but ...
27 March 2017 /startups
Michael Pearson Founder at Clarus Investments
The amount of investment in venture capital backed fintech companies is well documented but how much value is being created and how does that relate to the value of established financial services companies? There are various sources of data on fintech investment levels but the one we have used is from CB Insights. According to this source, the tota...
14 March 2017 /startups Fintech innovation and startups
Some time ago I realised the banking industry was in for a regulatory shakeup along with perhaps some revelations in the areas of privacy and security. I chose to have a break, putting a few things on the shelf for a while. A friend of mine, a nuclear physicist, who was also in the financial industry and had moved into electronics, suggested I tur...
13 March 2017 /startups Where are they now?
Any site may comprise of various pages and give changed data to the clients. Planning these website pages to seem rich, appealing and embellishing them by applying great subjects, hues and making them easy to understand is the thing that Web designing is about in basic terms. It is clearly exceptionally client focused and multidisciplinary activit...
01 March 2017 /startups Business Knowledge for IT
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