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Maybe you don’t mind the ads for that bicycle rack following you around in cyberspace after you visited a site for all things bike, but browser trackers (“cookies”) also create a profile of you that g...
Introduction In the face of unrelenting regulatory pressure, and to continue to improve risk management capabilities, the need to establish and maintain effective risk data aggregation processes and c...
Banks in Finland had signed up 217 000 enterprises for sending e-invoices - and 234 000 for receiving at the end of 2014. Corresponding potential for EU: 15,7 and 16,8 million. 3,9 million consumers ...
e-banking customers in Finland used their e-banking passwords 56,2 million times to log in to public sector and other non-banking services last year. Up from 47,1m. Finland is a small country - so it...
We are in the midst of interplay of disparate technology solutions in an enterprise. It is always comfortable to sit back and strategise to clean up existing ones and have a compact set of solutions t...
One important benefit from Digital Currencies (DCs) is in its immunity to exchange rate fluctuations and control excercised that one sees in fiat currencies. A simple scenario will illustrate my view ...
Over the past 18 months there has been a lot of (maybe too much) discussion and hype about the rise and imminent takeover of the ‘robo advisor’ within the wealth management market. This hasn’t fully m...
Based on several discussions with many banks I had in the last 11 months in the region I found that more and more banks are interested mainly in mobile banking solutions and online banking solutions o...
FinTech Investments Quadruple , UBS Is Spending Big Money on Fintech Startups , A listing of 1208 fintech startup, The 7 hottest Fintech companies in the silicon valley - These are some of the rece...
When you subscribe to an online service, be careful of how much information you give out about yourself. Most businesses in their terms and conditions, say they “respect your privacy.” But what if the...
Have you ever noticed how we move through phases? Looking back over my long career in the world of banking and banking technology, there were always those ‘new’ technologies that kept popping up. They...
The insurance industry has always had an estranged relationship with its customers, but most firms have come round to the fact that they need to be totally customer focused if they want them to stay. ...