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Mutual Funds - Being Risk Averse

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing – Warren Buffet Traditionally, we have seen people investing mostly in FDs and other lumpsum conservative instruments. Now a days, we do realize that this is not going to beat inflation in long term and consequently result in effectively lowering the purchasing power than gaining anything out of it. Mo...

Personal Finance

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Does Your Mobile Have Spyware on It?

You have a mobile phone, you might think it’s pretty safe, but what you might not realize is that these devices can have spyware on them. Keep in mind, many of the “signs” listed below are everyday normal phone behaviors. But combined, might mean spyware. Here are some of the signs: Unusual Background Noise While common, humming, static, or other...

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Anna Kuzmina

Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech

Kenya Case Study Part I: M-PESA story

“M-PESA”: that is a name in global fintech history that can never be erased. Not that anybody would want to. Forever it will be the perfect example of a viable financial ecosystem based on rules unthinkable before. A living masterpiece that was created by a mosaic of unique circumstances, choices and risks taken at a particular time and place, an

/payments Fintech

David Creer

David Creer Technology & Innovation Lead at GFT

Blockchain: Can it handle real-world trading volumes?

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) has received significant attention in recent years and is viewed by many as a technology solution that can reduce operational costs and inefficiency across the capital markets. However, until now, DLT has not been able to demonstrate enterprise maturity, nor scalability sufficient to handle real-world financial ...

/sibos Capital Markets Technology

Shailendra Malik

Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Enterprise Search) at DBS Bank

What makes a Bank's Lifestyle App tick?

I have written before about Lifestyle apps and their use by banks, but I get a lot of questions about what are the best strategies to embed the collaboration of two different organizations on lifestyle apps. This a very pertinent question as a lifestyle app created by any company should provide a basic framework for all its partners to be able to c...

Digital Banking Trends

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Crypto Firms Excel in Technical Expertise But Have Little Understanding of Risk

Crypto Firms have great technologies that address a lot of challenges and open up an entire new world of doing business. In conversation with CoinFi's CEO Timothy Tan about how regulations and risk management will be a competitive advantage for crypto firms. Thank you so much for doing this with us! Can you tell us the story of how you got invo...

/regulation Digital Asset Class (DAC)

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Savings Account - Maximizing Returns

Note - This is in context to banking channels in India. Is there a way to maximise earnings from Savings Account? This is my first post, so I will start with a basic idea – Savings account. It is usually the first fundamental instrument that I am sure most of us would already be having. Now, I can guess most of us would be having an account with so...

/retail Personal Finance

Patrick Chambeau

Patrick Chambeau Director of Marketing at IPC

The sell-side needs a collaborative workflow solution

Every day, several trillion dollars of securities are traded around the world, often executed in fast-moving volatile markets, as we have seen this week. Between 2000 and 2013, the size of the debt markets grew from $33 trillion to over $90 trillion, and the U.S. treasury debt doubled from $4.5 trillion in 2007 to over $12 trillion in 2014. The dai...

Unified Communications in Financial Services

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On Cloud Nine - How Banks Can Master the Challenge of Digitalization

Today, banks are facing many challenges, not just high fees and lack of transparency, but competition from emerging fintech companies who are entering the market with modern applications and innovative solutions. With the industry going through a digital transformation, it’s crucial for banks to be more agile with their corporate payments solution...

/retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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API Orchestration or Choreography, what’s your choice?

Have you’ve ever visited India? How did you cope with the traffic there? It’s clearly different to the regular, organized approach we are used to in Europe. After spending a couple of days in Bangalore recently, I became aware that my reaction to traffic had changed; I was not fazed (read terrified) by traffic behavior anymore and actually started

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