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Driving Innovation in Financial Services - Perspective From SIBOS with Red Hat and Intel

Alessandro Petroni, Global Head of Strategy, Financial Services at Red Hat and Parviz Peiravi, CTO Financial Services, Intel sat down together at SIBOS to discuss the technological innovations that financial institutions need to be laser-focused on in order to remain competitive. Sibos was perfect setting for the conversation. As the premier finan...

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Clarity through the DEA tiers

An ESMA Q&A published this week provides some further guidance regarding the authorization of sub-delegated DEA providers, but it still leaves room for uncertainty. The Q&A draws a distinction between a DEA client that has EU exchange access directly via a member (Tier 1 DEA client), and a DEA client that obtains access through a sub-dele...

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Thea George

Thea George 

Are banks making the most of real-time payments?

It’s crunch time for real-time payments in the US, since The Clearing House’s new rails went live in mid-November. It’ll be a phased roll-out, with eight or nine banks starting this year – and all 25 of the TCH owner banks committed to be live by the end of 2018. But this gentle introduction belies the significance of what’s happening. The new rai...

/payments

Diederick Van Thiel

Diederick Van Thiel Visionary Board Member | CEO | NED at AdviceRobo | IKANO Bank | Ikano Insight

How Cognitive Intelligence can drive banks’ cost income breakthroughs

By Dr. Roboadvice Banks have been growing their cost/income ratios with serious cost reductions since 2008. But from now on, the real breakthroughs will primarily have to come from income growth. Online retailers like Amazon are great at growing their income, but this is not what banks usually excel in! New target groups, new product market combin...

/ai /inclusion Digital Banking Trends

Freddie McMahon

Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd

CHATBOTS: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION VERSUS A PARADIGM SHIFT

Chatbots, the human side of artificial intelligence, are showing significant signs of market growth, primarily due to the ability to make material reductions in costs, whilst delivering superior customer interactions. From various sources, the Chatbot market is expected to be worth more than US$1bn by 2023, at a compound annual growth rate of betwe...

/ai /regulation Futuristic Banking

Priya Lakshmi

Priya Lakshmi Digital Leader at Own

Un-’block’ your business 1.0: Is KYC a Blockchain use case or do we need more?

Blockchain is very exciting for many and offers tremendous opportunities to make processes more efficient, create new markets and change existing market infrastructure. A lot of people are also joining the bandwagon because it is complex, difficult to understand (oh well, its building blocks are game theory (consensus based), cryptography and peer...

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How FinTech Impacts Portfolio Risk Management

The Internet. Nothing has disrupted our lives more. And one of the biggest more recent disruptions has been in the financial industry. While alternative banking first began with PayPal, the development of financial technology (fintech) has been steady, albeit gradual, ever since. Then, the financial crisis of 2008 hit and consumers lost trust in t...

/regulation Financial Risk Management

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What will Mr. Scrooge McDuck do in a cashless society?

Cashless Society - To be, or not to be? To replace any commodity that is in existence for hundreds of years in trade is a phenomenal task. Statistics from European Central Bank show that banknotes in circulation is on the decline, since 2015. The graph on below link shows the net circulation of number of banknotes and coins in Euro Area. This is...

/payments Digital Banking Trends

Anne Plested

Anne Plested Regulation at ION Markets

More unanswered questions

At first glance, the MiFID II trading obligation for shares seems fairly benign, bringing the bulk of equities trading ‘safely’ back to regulated execution venues. Whilst appearing all encompassing, it still leaves room for plain old-fashioned OTC trading on an ad hoc basis (or, technically speaking, below the threshold for an EU SI). But add into...

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Richard Miller

Richard Miller Product Owner at RegDefy (MV37)

Is there a place for the IoT in Capital Markets?

On returning from the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona last week, my head was brimming with new narratives about the latest and greatest technologies that were going to transform financial services and what IT leaders should be doing about it. Unfortunately, in amongst all the platforms, ecosystems and new ways of thinking there was a constant naggi...

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