1026 Results from 2017
Campbell Shaw SVP Publisher Partnerships at Cardlytics
Hackathons have become important drivers of change across the business world. The financial services industry has often had a love-hate relationship with them. Advocates recognised their importance; critics reckoned they were theatre. But as banks across Europe find themselves at multiple crossroads, hackathons, in their truest form, are crucial. I...
20 December 2017 /retail Open Banking
Retired Member
Derivatives market participants have been rightfully concerned about the potentially adverse impact of MiFID II on global trading. However, the US and EU authorities have taken significant steps in recent weeks to mitigate some of those concerns. The CFTC has issued an interpretative letter regarding the unbundling of research, something that is m...
20 December 2017 /regulation /wholesale MiFID
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
Many asset managers are wrestling with the decision on whether to keep the order management system (OMS) and execution management system (EMS) as two separate best-of-breed systems, or switch to a single unified platform known as the OEMS. Buy-side firms have been demanding tighter integration between their order management and execution management...
19 December 2017 /regulation Capital Markets Technology
David Donovan Executive Vice President at Publicis.Sapient
Why it’s key to customer centricity and staying relevant in the digital age We are in an age of currencies going digital, fintechs receiving major funding rounds, large non-bank platforms such as Amazon building financial services such as payments, lending services at a record pace, and capital market businesses continuing their slow down. While t...
19 December 2017 /retail Digital Banking Trends
André Stoorvogel Director, Product Marketing – Payments, Rambus at Rambus
Fundamental shifts in consumer behavior, the emergence of new technologies and an evolving regulatory landscape means the payments ecosystem is poised for unprecedented transformation in 2018. The demand for safer data, faster payments and better experiences presents great opportunity, but also significant challenges. Safer data for emerging payme...
19 December 2017 /payments
2018 is set to be an eventful year, with a royal wedding, ongoing Brexit negotiations, the FIFA World Cup, and predictions of an extremely close midterm election in the US in November. How these events impact the global financial landscape - good or bad - remains to be seen. One overarching trend predicted for 2018, and something to be incredibly...
18 December 2017 /payments
The year 2017 saw unprecedented change in the world of cyber – the number and scale of attacks grew significantly, while in many cases governments, regulators, and financial services firms were perceived to be scrambling to catch up. In 2018, the momentum around cybersecurity will accelerate in a range of ways – below are Cordium’s top five cyber t...
18 December 2017 /regulation
2017 was the year that Transaction Laundering planted itself firmly in the consciousness of the minds of regulators, lawmakers, law enforcement and the general public. We believe that 2018 will be the year that we turn this awareness into action. Here’s why: E-commerce and Mobile Transactions Will Continue to Surge According to emarketer, worldw...
18 December 2017 /payments /regulation
Linda Zaikovska-Daukste Co-founder | COO | CFO at UXDA
Finance has always been quite conservative but it hasn’t missed out on technological progress. Now banks are separating from their customers due to technological progress. According to the research, 40% of American bank customers don’t visit banking offices for six months or more. The number of local bank branches decreased by almost 50% between 1...
18 December 2017 Innovation in Financial Services
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
During our stay in South Africa I was reading an article in Die Burger (newspaper for Afrikaners) where a spokesman of Cape town-based PWC gave his ideas on the recent rise of Bitcoin and the future of Blokketting (Afrikaans for Blockchain). This inspired me to write this blog. Since I started writing about blockchain I categorically refused to us...
17 December 2017
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