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Using Fingerprints to Bank the Unbanked

Our identity proves more than just who we are – it is also our key to obtain access to financial services, government benefit programs, healthcare, and other services. Access to these services are crucial for anyone but can be especially beneficial to low-income individuals seeking assistance. However, these individuals (especially those in develo...

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Open banking and the legal right to be forgotten

Open banking rests on enabling customers to give consent and control to a third-party relationship involving their data and transactions. This ability to help the customer manage this relationship is key for the bank. The customer has the right to terminate a third party relationship at any time and request to be forgotten. The legal right to be f...

/regulation Trends in Financial Services

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Blockchain in Action : Round-up of blockchain stories from Aug 2017

Last month, I had published a post here on FinExtra titled Blockchain in Action : Round-up of blockchain stories from July 2017 . A month down the lane, I was curious to look at recent developments in the blockchain ecosystem across the globe to look at blockchain solutions that have gone live. In this post, I have curated a list of all the casele...

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Shyam Khandelwal

Shyam Khandelwal Business Analyst at HSBC

Do banks really know their customers ?

Background The other day I was shopping on Amazon and Flipkart online. I chose a mobile to buy and on the same page, another section came up which had information displayed for a mobile cover and a screen protector for that mobile. The site also created a combo deal of all 3 items (mobile, cover and protector) and gave the total amount which needs...

/retail /wholesale Futuristic Banking

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Google Cloud Spanner: The next big transformation in financial services?

Cloud database technologies continue to evolve at pace - handling huge amounts of data, scaling horizontally and not costing the earth. With the launch of Google Cloud Spanner, banks can now harness horizontally and globally scalable data stores across their entire trading business, creating dramatic improvements in cost efficiency, resilience and ...

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Arpana Sharma

Arpana Sharma Subject Matter Expert at Genpact

WHAT's UP with WHATSAPP? Why messaging apps are critical to banks...

Do you feel lost without a mobile device? Research suggests mobile users can't leave their phone alone for six minutes and check it up to 150 times a day. Banks need to adapt to this fundamental shift in customer behaviour. As customer change, organizations are heavily investing in deploying bots to service them. Capital One’s chatbot Eno, Royal Ba...

/ai /retail Digital Banking Trends

Anjani Kumar

Anjani Kumar Principal Consultant - FS Risk & Compliance at Infosys Limited

The unquenched longing for a transformed KYC and AML solution

As per the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimate, each year, across the globe, the value of money that is laundered equate to 2 - 5% of the global GDP. In absolute term, this amounts to USD 800 billion – USD 2 trillion. Unsurprisingly then, governments and policy makers across the globe have been concerned with the rampant mena...

/ai /regulation Banking Architecture

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Hurdling towards the finish line of MiFID II

The upcoming implementation of the second iteration of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) is without doubt one of the most talked-about topics in the finance industry this year. So much so that for some firms the issue of making operational changes to prepare for the looming January 3 deadline has become more of a burden tha...

/regulation MiFID

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Guide to implementation of client suitability and appropriateness framework for MiFID II

Introduction The genesis of the Client suitability and appropriateness framework lies in Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) regulation. MiFID II is scheduled to be implemented in January 2018. The aim of MiFID II is to increase efficiency and transparency in the European financial markets and to increase protection for investor...

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Carlo R.W. De Meijer

Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA

UBS and the Utility Settlement Coin

These are interesting times for blockchain and distributed ledger technology. My last blog of 23 August was about the Microsoft CoCo Platform (see: Microsoft CoCo Platform: blockchain game changer?) that could become an important trigger for further and more scaled blockchain adoption. And now it was recently announced that another six internatio...

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