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Embracing the Financial Services Innovation Opportunity of 2023

Financial institutions are trying to navigate the economic downturn, adjusting loan and deposit pricing to align with market expectations, increasing credit spreads on loan offerings to protect against losses, and taking steps to guard against defaults. They say, “necessity is the mother of all invention,” and we are indeed witnessing a period of r...

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To achieve operational resilience, banks must embrace back-office innovation

In March 2022, the Prudential Regulation Authority’s (PRA) Operational Resiliency Rules came into force. The rules, which impact UK banks, building societies, and financial services firms, mandate that they embed resilience within their operations. Organisations are instructed to adapt systems and processes to ensure they have service continuity i...

/regulation /retail Operational Risk Management

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Turning up the dial at Finovate Europe

I was delighted to participate in the recent Finovate Europe in London where over two days I engaged with some of the most influential speakers within global finance, discussing how technology, business, politics, and economics align in the challenging times we face in 2023.  Finovate is a key annual conference focused exclusively on showcasing t...

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Credit Risk Monitoring: Building Next Generation Early Warning Systems

When it comes to credit risk monitoring, many banks find themselves falling behind the regulatory expectations. Regulators are expecting banks to take a more proactive approach, using forward-looking data and deploying a broader set of indicators in their early warning systems (EWS). The European Banking Authority (EBA) guidelines on loan originat...

/regulation /devops Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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It's crunch time for open banking in the UK

As the proverb goes, ‘patience is a virtue’, and that’s something many of us are having to keep in mind this week as we await the Joint Regulatory Oversight Committee’s (JROC) report on the future of open banking in the UK. Fortunately, the Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec) has given us all something to sink our teeth into after releasing ‘...

/payments /inclusion Open Banking

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Data Quality – The Tipping Point

“Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.” So said Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. ‘Precious’ provided the data is indeed trustworthy and of assured and consistent quality. And customers indisputably have conceded to the fact that Data Quality indeed forms the foundation of all their data ma...

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2023 – the year of the digital ID wallet

Across the globe, we are seeing country after country making digital ID a primary option for consumers (and businesses) to access both public and private sector services. In some countries, it is entirely led by the government, while in others it has been taken on by the private sector. The ecosystem to allow this is now established in most places...

/identity Digital Identity Management

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FIDO2 for financial sector: Pros AND Cons

How simple is it in reality? FIDO2 is a remarkable project that has been driven by IT industry giants all over the world for several years now. Describing what exactly the project is in a concise manner is rather difficult since the FIDO Alliance (the organisation that is developing and promoting the project) is seeking to encompass lots of possib...

/regulation /identity Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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Data Democratization and the Master Data facet

Introduction The inundation of data from all quarters have left businesses grappling with the pressure to increasingly leverage data to improve their performance. Needless to say, despite the best of cutting edge technologies and Analytical platforms, there remains the longing desire for data democratization , a world where business executives no...

Data Management and Governance

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MDM in the Cognitive world

Staying relevant in today’s times necessitates digital enterprises bridge the gap between data generated internally vs externally whilst continuing to drawing meaningful insights. As copious amounts of data continue to get generated by the second and one cannot undermine the significance that MDM brings to the table in the age of cognitive computi...

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