1026 Results from 2017
Paul Irvine Director, Major Accounts UK&I at Fortinet
The rise in popularity of the Internet of Things (IoT) and a consumer desire to access valuable data on various devices has led to network security becoming increasingly complicated for financial services providers. As financial institutions transition their network security strategies to meet these consumer demands and grant greater individual acc...
15 August 2017 /security Information Security
Retired Member
Real Time Payments is 'in', it's cool, everyone's doing it, it's the awesome thing that will solve all our payments problems. Wait! What? Really? But which problems? Cast your mind back. It's 2004. 4 years before Faster Payments launches in the UK. I go to buy a sandwich from a shop. I'm asked to pay. I take out my debit card and pay. In real time....
15 August 2017
MiFID II seemed so far away when it was pushed back until January 3rd 2018!! This has been a long time coming, and despite the looming deadline, firms are still trying to work out what they need to do. This is causing challenges for them as they try and decide where to focus their resource and what is the highest priority…? MiFID II has widened on...
14 August 2017 /regulation MiFID
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
If you think bots will never replace human agents, you’re amongst the lucky few who has been served by intelligent human agents. I admit that I’ve also been among the lucky few at times. But more often than not, I come across fairly dumb human agents. And, lately, I've started experiencing fairly intelligent chatbots. Let me give you three recent ...
14 August 2017 /ai /retail
When it comes to making payments online, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are a method of alternative payments using blockchain technology to allow someone to make transactions without the need of an intermediary. Since transactions are made through the publicly distributed ledger of a blockchain, the transaction history is not contained in a cent...
14 August 2017 /payments Online Banking
Twelfth Night starts with a shipwreck. Emma Rice’s production at The Globe was magical: Shakespeare would have applauded. Superb were Feste, the wise fool, and Malvolio, the whistling regulator. The extraordinary begins to unfold and slips into a farce. In less than six months, Open Banking sets sail, so to avoid floundering we need to understan...
14 August 2017 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
Samee Zafar Director at Edgar Dunn Company
Reforming a dubious past Can the notorious, high-flying, volatile, and unpredictable Bitcoin system be gainfully deployed for legal and legitimate business models that have the potential of disrupting the existing world of banking and finance? This article explores an interesting attempt by a start-up called Abra to develop a master plan for a glob...
14 August 2017
There are numerous articles related to PSD2 as to what it is and what it will mean to the various parties involved but there are also countless firms stating that they offer PSD2 solutions, which in theory, some may be relevant. So how do you differentiate between them all? In the past we would rely on our sometimes expensive but well known stap...
13 August 2017 /payments SEPA and European Payments
Yuval Ziv Managing Director, Digital Payments at Nuvei
The Sharing Economy Boom Online marketplaces are named for their real-life counterparts – a single place you can visit and buy goods from a multitude of sellers. Being online means that a marketplace can be far bigger and offer far more variety than any offline market. It can offer virtual as well as physical goods. And it can sell goods both home...
11 August 2017 /payments
You may be aware that the Government of India demonetised the highest two denomination bills of INR1000/- and INR500/- on 8th November 2016. Whilst, the usage of demonetisation as a tool to fight corruption and money laundering is debatable, the Indian case study, as per a Reserve Bank of India memo released on 11th August 2017 mentions that a
11 August 2017 /regulation Financial Risk Management
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