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Rik Coeckelbergs

Rik Coeckelbergs Independent Advisor, Opinion Maker and Consultant at The Banking Scene

When Regtech meets Payments

Last week I represented The Banking Scene at 5th NPF and Regtech Leaders Forum, a boutique conference in the middle of Brussels, with about 75 participants. The Banking Scene was a media partner at this Forum. The topics and speakers were great: diverse and straight to the point. An international audience gathered, open for interaction and networki...

/regulation /inclusion Banking Regulations

Anna Kuzmina

Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech

Myanmar goes digital

Recently I was suggested to move to Myanmar. To my shame, I knew pretty much nothing about Myanmar, apart from it being Burma before. Ok, and except the fact that Myanmar is a Chinese gambling heaven. And that I have never been there or wanted to. So that got me curious — what in the world is happening in Myanmar? Credits to Guilherme Romano, Unsp...

/payments Asia Financial Services

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the Malaysian 1MDB Fraud gets bigger and more interesting

Hi For those monitoring one of the largest money laundering scandals involving politicians and businessmen, the recent news on GOLDMAN SACHS should be of great interest. https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2018/11/427365/doj-charge-former-goldman-bankers-jho-low-over-1mdb-scandal https://www.dw.com/en/us-justice-department-charges-malayisan-financie...

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API Security: Who has the right key?

Everyone has at least one set of keys; don’t they? You can recognize your keys and you make sure you take them wherever you go. Look at each key on your keyring and you know which door or cabinet it opens (well, we should know anyway). Some of us have keys we no longer know the purpose of – what we do know is that the lock for that key is probabl

/devops API

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How banks can be more customer-centric

Do something you never thought you could Successful innovation focuses on making customers' lives easier, better and, ideally, more enjoyable. In banking, this focus is calibrated by de-complicating processes that customers have to go through simply to manage or move their money, make payments, checks balances and other everyday matters that are d...

Innovation in Financial Services

Jason Bell

Jason Bell Regional Sales Director, FS&I at ServiceNow

Robust cyber security lies in the cloud

Is the entire financial services sector under attack? Given the proliferation of news stories around cyber attacks on financial institutions, it's sometimes easy to believe so. For the criminal fraternity it's an obvious target. This is where the money is. For ill-intentioned nation states it's also a prime target. This is where the basis of the e...

/security Online Banking

Neil Crammond

Neil Crammond risk education & real time market abuse at DIVENTO FINANCIALS

DO EXCHANGES PROVIDE A FAIR MARKET ?

Recent studies of several exchanges contracts suggest market abuse and manipulation is still in operation . Exchanges have always needed market makers to provide liquidity and volume especially with new contracts ,(crypto currency ),however we have recently seen several exchanges now beginning to employ their own . The question needs asking ? Do th...

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Let’s talk about Customer Experience

With the FCA and CMA mandating that large UK banks must publish information on how likely people would be to recommend their bank, it’s much easier for consumers and small businesses to compare the services offered by different current account providers. The goal is to stimulate greater competition, encouraging customers to evaluate different bank...

/ai /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Olivier Deheurles

Olivier Deheurles Co-Founder and CTO at Adaptive

The theory of thinking differently: banks moving to cloud without multicast support

Einstein once said that the “measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” In the complex world of financial markets, change is very much afoot, as the major institutions seek to overhaul their legacy trading platforms from an on-premise, to a public cloud environment. But exactly how easy the migration will prove to be is very much up for de...

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Anna Kuzmina

Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech

Google, Facebook, Alibaba in Africa

So many mighty and powerful are drawn to the African countries, and I am not even talking about Chinese and their generous investment in infrastructural projects in 53 out of 54 countries of the continent. There are also 500 more companies from around the world, famous and not so much, that are actively investing in various business projects in Af...

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