1148 Results from 2018
Retired Member
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...
19 October 2018 Personal Finance
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
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...
19 October 2018 /security
Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech
“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
19 October 2018 /payments Fintech
David Creer Technology & Innovation Lead at GFT
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 ...
19 October 2018 /sibos Capital Markets Technology
Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Enterprise Search) at DBS Bank
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...
18 October 2018 Digital Banking Trends
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...
18 October 2018 /regulation Digital Asset Class (DAC)
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...
18 October 2018 /retail Personal Finance
Patrick Chambeau Director of Marketing at IPC
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...
18 October 2018 Unified Communications in Financial Services
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...
17 October 2018 /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
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
17 October 2018 /devops API
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