1026 Results from 2017
Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd
The Opportunity The simplification of Complex Knowledge is a paradigm shift opportunity for chatbots, with the potential to bring benefits to every person and every organisation on the planet. The Definition Complex Knowledge is any combination of regulatory, statutory, legal, tax, tariff, policy and procedure matter, which is primarily found w...
22 December 2017 /ai /regulation Fintech innovation and startups
Retired Member
Forecasts for the upcoming year have become an industry staple, but how often are these predictions correct? In this post I review forecasts made at the start of the year so that you can judge who got 2017 right and who needs to brush up on the research. Customer Experience – One of the most discussed topics expected to play a key role in 2017 was ...
21 December 2017 /retail
Priya Lakshmi Digital Leader at Own
The rise of the gig economy has given rise to many marketplaces and businesses – eBay, Uber, AirBnB and the like that support this shared services economy. Uber and AirBnB disrupted the current business models of hotels and taxis but it is not too far away that technology like Blockchain can disrupt this very model and put the control back in the ...
21 December 2017 Innovation in Financial Services
While not all jobs can be done from home, advances in technology have made this more viable than ever before. Video conferencing, real-time shared document editing, and high-speed internet mean that collaboration is no longer confined to just the office. When people utilise flexible working, they accomplish just as much as they would under more tr...
21 December 2017 Unified Communications in Financial Services
2018 is around the corner, offering an opportunity to reflect on the previous year and look at the trends that are likely to shape the financial services sector in the coming year. Just like last year, in this article I offer five technology predictions for financial markets in 2018. 1) Cloud adoption. Cloud has been a prominent talking poi...
21 December 2017 /regulation Trends in Financial Services
Not a lot of people know that Commonly attributed to Sir Michael Caine, what a lot of people don't know is that it was actually said by someone else. “Not a lot of people know that” With MiFiD II just around the corner, inexplicably the phrase, ‘Not a lot of people know that’ came to mind. Commonly attributed to Sir Michael Caine, what a lot of peo...
21 December 2017 /regulation MiFID
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
Banks will profile corporate credit risk blending financial indicators with supply chain performance metrics. This point represents the hinge that will connect corporate supply chain process data with innovative credit risk models for banks: Banks will capture and analyze events in the physical supply chain to generate a more profound and realistic...
21 December 2017 /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
As a customer, one of the big selling points of Open Banking is giving me control of my financial data. Is this really true? Having reviewed the latest European Open Banking specifications there is plenty of data I should be able to get hold of. The question is how? I get the fact I will be able to use aggregator apps to view my total financial pos...
21 December 2017 Open Banking
Anne Leslie-Bini CEO at Pikcio RegTech
In a recent blog post, I floated the idea that it might be time to renew the ‘purpose’ of banking by incentivizing ethical behavior, and I asked whether challenger banks – such as Monzo, Metro, Tandem, Revolut, N26 et al. - are actually up to the challenge of rehabilitating the core of the banking industry, which has managed to entirely bankrupt ...
20 December 2017 /retail /startups Disruption in Retail Banking
It’s simple: the probability of being under cyber attack is 100%. From a Cyber Defense perspective, you have to be right all the time, at the contrary your adversary has to be right only once. Due to the nature of API’s, and their application in a financial context, the impact of exploiting a vulnerability could be huge. Imagine a flaw would let a...
20 December 2017 /security Fintech
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