1023 Results from 2017
Henry Hilska Managing Principal at Convexity Solutions
So, what happened to banking and how did it go from being among the leaders in the development and implementation of technology to the image of being too big and too clumsy and the target of many, smaller and nimbler tech start-ups? There are a few explanations for this including that the image that is portraited in much of the tech media is neit...
05 January 2017 /payments Fintech innovation and startups
Bhavesh Vaghela SVP B2B Product and Innovation at Collinson
Orignally published on swifltyagile Happy New Year! I hope everybody has had a great festive period. Mine was amazing, I spent time absorbing the beauty of nature in winter and sharing special moments with loved ones with complete digital detox. To warm up my neurones as I awake from my digital hibernation I have put together a brief Mystic Meg p...
05 January 2017 /retail
Vinod Sharma CTO - FinTech Domain at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe
Abstract - Through this post, I would like to highlight how collaboration can help to improve public access to technology-oriented financial services. Financial Services Authority of Indonesia (Otoritas Jasa Keuangan or OJK) a government agency, which regulates and supervises the financial services sector, has finally issued a regulation on financ...
05 January 2017 /inclusion Innovation in Financial Services
Shyam Khandelwal Business Analyst at HSBC
Banks and Customer Health ‘Health is Wealth’ is an age old saying. Banks have been traditionally associated with ‘Wealth’ part of the customers, but I believe now it’s a high time for the Banks to be involved in the ‘Health’ part also. Being a part of customers’ health regime is the new mantra. It has dual benefits, it does help the customer in...
Retired Member
With just 364 days left to go, the MiFID II go-live date looms large. But with complex regulation spanning several hundred pages of text it is no great surprise that some MiFID II deadlines will come in earlier than 3rd January 2018, while others leave more breathing space. For example, trading venues must submit their waiver applications to their...
04 January 2017 /regulation
In the movie Superman Returns Lois Lane wrote an article “ Does the World need a Superman” and won an award but as reality dawned , the end of the movie she once again starts to write “Why the world needs a Superman” and stops abruptly to contemplate what form of Superman does the world need. The Banking world is in a similar dilemma, wanting to l...
04 January 2017 /wholesale
Banks and buysides thought the holidays came early this year as the IRS issued transition relief guidance for Section 871(m) in the form of Notice 2016-76. There were sounds of rejoice with changes to the threshold for US equity derivatives products. The notice highlights that the regulations will only apply to delta-one transactions for 2017, thos...
03 January 2017 /regulation
I spent the holidays diligently researching the best brand of mince pies in order to settle a pre-Christmas debate here at the office. Naturally my criteria included a number of factors including (but not just) price and, perhaps surprisingly, the winner was Tesco's in-house bakery. Back at work, my attention turned to my other favourite M word – ...
Carlo R.W. De Meijer The Meyer Financial Services Advisory (MIFS) at MIFSA
In April last year I wrote a blog on blockchain and monetary policy. In this blog I went into a number of still unanswered questions posed by the European Central Bank around blockchain technology. There was a big uncertainty about the impact of this technology on the future role of central bank money and on monetary policy. While at that time man...
03 January 2017
The adoption of mobile banking will continue to surge across Europe, says a recent ING International Survey – Mobile Banking 2016 report. In its annual survey, ING shows that the share of mobile device users in Europe who bank by mobile has swelled to 47% – up from 41% in 2015 – with another 16% expected to adopt the technology in the next 12 mont...
03 January 2017 /retail
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