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Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger Founder and CEO at UXDA Financial UX Design

Why User Experience Engineering is a Must in Financial Industry

The essence of user experience engineering There are millions of problems customers face every day. Any successful business starts with a solution-to-solve problem, but not every solution is usable enough to help customers. Service interface design ensures digital solution usability by matching solutions with user needs and psychology. Actually in...

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Steve Wilcockson

Steve Wilcockson Technical Product Marketing at Quantexa

7 Chief Risk Officer Priorities for 2017

In December, I attended the Amsterdam RiskMinds Conference, which highlighted current priorities of Chief Risk Officers [CROs] and risk professionals. Having reflected over Christmas sherry and Mariah Carey New Year PR disasters, I consider 7 key CRO and risk priorities. Do you agree ? Post your comments below. i) Be “Chief Worrier” The modern Chi...

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Henry Hilska

Henry Hilska Managing Principal at Convexity Solutions

What does the DTCC announcement mean for the future of Blockchain and Bitcoin?

The recent announcement from DTCC, a financial industry services leader processing trillions of dollars of securities transactions on a daily basis, concerning the unveiling of a credit derivatives post-trade lifecycle solution built using a distributed ledger technology platform was not a surprise but certainly a milestone. If you’ve been follow...

Innovation in Financial Services

Martijn Groot

Martijn Groot VP Product Management at Asset Control

The Regulatory Web of Complexity

At the centre of financial services risk management and regulatory compliance is the convergence of data from a huge range of information silos, departments, product lines, customers and risk categories. Risk and finance are at the end of an extensive chain, examining the consolidated threads, uncovering issues and spotting patterns. This is where...

/regulation Financial Services Regulation

Jeremy Light

Jeremy Light Co-founder at Fourdotzero

PSD2 APIs and the risk of fraud

Card-not-present (CNP) fraud is a big problem and is getting worse. It is possible its severity and the way it is outpacing ecommerce growth have influenced the drafting of the PSD2 and EBA RTS and defining the required levels of customer authentication and exemptions. Indeed, I attended an event recently where CNP fraud statistics were used to em...

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Keith Bear

Keith Bear Vice President, Financial Markets at IBM

DTCC Selection of IBM, Axoni and R3 Points to Blockchain Maturity

This week's announcement that DTCC has selected IBM, in partnership with Axoni, to build a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) version of their Trade Information Warehouse (TIW) is a flagship event in the increasing role of blockchain technology in financial markets. It sets an industry standard for successful "at scale" industry deploym...

Graham Seel

Graham Seel Principal Consultant at BankTech Consulting

Should Community Banks and Credit Unions Worry About Blockchain?

There is more hype, discussion and disagreement about Blockchain than any other technology impacting financial services today. There has been a lot written about blockchain (or more generally Digital Ledger Technology). There are some good tutorials on what it is. The news media seem to always have some new application that is in pilot. All the la...

Innovation in Financial Services

Piyush Srivastava

Piyush Srivastava President & Chief Operating Officer at RiskCounts LLC

What does FRTB or Fundamental Review of trading book really mean?

Remember those days when we saw Lehman employees walking out with their personal stuff in cardboard boxes, the manhandling of AIG employees in New York, the demonstrations at Wall Street and Zuccotti Park (New York), and the $ 1 trillion bailout fund that the Congress initially refused to approve? Yes, to avoid similar situations, the BIS (Basel C...

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Retired Member

Retired Member 

Using FinTech to Level the Financial Playing Field

To most, a bank account is not considered a luxury. Direct deposit, writing checks and transferring money are a staple in the average consumer’s life, as natural as the air we breathe, but to over 8 million households in the United States, a bank account symbolizes unattainable wealth and a particularly large life hurdle to overcome. Individuals w...

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Nanda Kumar

Nanda Kumar CEO at SunTec Business Solutions

How can banks take the pressure out of stress tests?

Last year has been a rocky year for banks and financial markets. 2016 was a year of major fluctuations, driven by political changes across the world. The markets have reflected these turbulent times, with the greatest number of fluctuations the market has seen in 50 years. Banks have to mitigate these risks and adapt to new market changes. Banks h...

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