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Jane Disney

Jane Disney Industry Principal at SAP UK Limited

How Insurers Can Unlock Value With Financial Excellence

Today’s insurers are faced with many challenges, including a low-interest-rate environment, price transparency, regulatory changes, customer cost-consciousness, complex IT landscapes, and increasing operational costs. Add to this the rising cost, number, and frequency of claims. In 2017 the UK’s largest insurer, Aviva, paid out more claims than ev...

Konstantin Rabin

Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik

What it will take for bank branches to go away in the Fintech world

This talk has been around for years now. Ever since the very first Fintech companies attempted to start banking with different services, they have been touting on and on about the bank branch finally going away. But so far, the bank branches remain. Not only that but according to it seems like bank branches are not losing their popularity at all

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Jared Ronski

Jared Ronski Co-founder at MerchACT

The Power of Blockchain for Ecommerce

The ecommerce payments landscape is evolving as mobile and alternative payment methods rise in popularity. Worldwide mobile payment revenue is expected to exceed $1 trillion in 2019 and more than 2.1B consumers are expected to use mobile payments by this year. The dynamic changes happening in the payments space also raise questions about speed, c...

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DDD: what aisle is your attribute in?

During a Domain Driven Design (DDD) workshop this week, one of my colleagues very cleverly used grocery store aisles as an analogy to explain why attributes should be grouped into entities. He explained that grocery stores group logical produce together to make it easier for customers to find what they are looking for. Thereby suggesting that gro

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FIVE STEPS FOR BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL FINTECH MOBILE APP

Mobile apps are so ubiquitous nowadays that almost all companies can think of at least one way in which an app could enhance their business. On top of this, an increasingly large number of hugely successful companies have an app at their very heart – just think of Uber, Shazam and Flipboard if you need a few examples. Whether you want to build an...

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Should You Worry About Contactless Credit Card NFC Skimming

If you have a contactless card, you might have worries about skimming. A contactless card or “frictionless” or “tap and go” is a card that has technology in it that allows payment over secure wireless like Apple Pay, Android Pay etc. Basically, this is where a criminal literally digitally pickpockets you by scanning things like your debit card or ...

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Andrew Beatty

Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS

What does 2019 have in store for UK Banking?

The turn of the year offers a perfect opportunity to review the past 12 months and to anticipate what might happen in the next 12. So, how was the past year for the UK banking and payments sector and what lies ahead of us in 2019? The year open banking arrived 2018 will be remembered as the year in which open banking became a reality in the UK. How...

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Jim Steven

Jim Steven Head of Crisis & Breach Response at Experian Consumer Services

International data breach readiness: the importance of an effective plan

Delivering an excellent customer experience is what sets businesses apart from their competitors and is an essential service for every business. Thinking further afield, it is also important for global organisations to provide a service that meets the needs of a broader diverse customer base. When it comes to notifying these customers of an inte...

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Simon Wilson

Simon Wilson MD, Transaction Automation at valanticFSA

2019 predictions: Open Source, Instant Payments and PSD2 to spur payments transformation

Payments transformation will take centre stage for banks in 2019. Bank resilience hit the headlines in 2018, prompting the UK’s Treasury Select committee to announce a probe into the reasons for and the impact of – mainly payments related – IT failures. This comes after a number of well publicised events, where payment systems went down, and cust...

/payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

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Open Banking - PSD2: Thoughts and Discussions

Make versus Buy - Develop your own API's or simply Buy from a Trusted 3rd Party? Should Bank's also be TPP's? Monetisation BigTech/FinTech - Competitors or Collaborators? PSD2 and GDPR - dichotomy? How do Visa and Mastercard react to PIS? Different adoption rates for AIS and PIS? Wild West without SCA? Liability - Banks or TPP's? PSD3?

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