1026 Results from 2017
Retired Member
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...
20 November 2017 /sibos
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...
20 November 2017 /regulation MiFID
Thea George
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...
20 November 2017 /payments
Diederick Van Thiel Visionary Board Member | CEO | NED at AdviceRobo | IKANO Bank | Ikano Insight
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...
20 November 2017 /ai /inclusion Digital Banking Trends
Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd
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...
17 November 2017 /ai /regulation Futuristic Banking
Priya Lakshmi Digital Leader at Own
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...
17 November 2017 /ai Innovation in Financial Services
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...
17 November 2017 /regulation Financial Risk Management
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...
17 November 2017 /payments Digital Banking Trends
Anne Plested Regulation at ION Markets
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...
16 November 2017 /regulation
Richard Miller Product Owner at RegDefy (MV37)
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...
16 November 2017 /ai
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