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Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
On the road to a fascinating and much better future of work and private life my take would include the following main milestones: Moores law making computing expontially more efficient, cheaper and smaller Corporate and public sector legacy moving to cloud computing environment – connecting to other data and service ecosystems more easily Intern...
28 August 2016 Innovation in Financial Services
Bank of Finland payment statistics 2015 out - better late than never.. (anybody seen similar figures from other countries - and better if compared to population, number of enterprises and GDP..)? http://www.suomenpankki.fi/en/tilastot/maksuliiketilastot/Pages/taulukot.aspx Quick picks: - slow economy reflected in volumes - cash on its way out - do...
05 August 2016 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Just back from the Exchange conference I keep pondering how we can get a shared view of how to automate administrative processes. Today - especially in the US - it still is large enterprise driven procurement that drives e-invoicing. How can this evolve into a good solution for SMEs = send to all from your own e-bank or other solution instead of ...
14 June 2016 /payments Electronic invoicing
When making innovation happen - getting the next individual to move to something better (digital) - we need to look at the full toolbox. The starting point is that too many citizens continue behaving against their own interest - be it unhealthy, expensive (often hidden costs), inconvenient, CO2-producing etc practises. The moral entitlement for mov...
27 April 2016 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Innovations happen only when the next individual changes her/his behavior to the new. In the IoT-world it is of course easier to make things move to automated e-interaction - but we still need to keep nudging - even pushing citizens into better solutions. In the past I was occasionally frustrated by the too large groups of stubborn "We will ne...
25 April 2016 Innovation in Financial Services
Wrote most of this in 2009..some adjustments made. Are we doing the right things in the right order? Maybe not… at least not often enough. The socio-technical landscape has changed so fast and we are still prisoners of quarterly capitalism (trying to create value for shareholders now staying for an average of 10 months), corporate governance model...
15 April 2016 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Posted this in 2012 - most aspects still valid - in a frantic world: The first and main pillar of banking is trust. It can be built and maintained by sticking to moderate risk taking – both in lending and recommending invest “products” – reputation building. Trust improves customer retention – even when new entrants try to enter markets with of...
10 April 2016 Innovation in Financial Services
The Deutsche Bank CEO stated that cash will disappear during the next 10 years. Why does it have to have to take so long? Take the opportunity to repost this from 2008: "EU published some figures on cost of handling cash - 50bn per year - and the consumer pays every cent of it - without knowing how much we would all save by keeping money in d...
24 January 2016 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
We all remember how delighted we were when the newborn Google was praised as a "database of intentions" which it of course was and is - on a scale that we could not imagine then. With Facebook now having 510 million visits a day! by 1,5 bn signed up, Whats Up at 0,9bn, Instagram at 0,4bn, Twitter at 0,3bn and any number of Tripadvisors a...
23 January 2016 Electronic invoicing
E-id as a bank service has been in place for soon 20-years in Finland and it serves especially well the public sector where strong e-id is often needed - but with low usage intensity. This means that a separate tool is both expensive and difficult to remember for users. Several other countries have taken the same route. But most have not - yet. W...
19 January 2016 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
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