1148 Results from 2018
Peter Davidson Business Consultant at Self Employed
Most investors have likely heard this sentiment from Warren Buffett at some point, but, as with most things, it’s often far easier said than done. The cryptocurrency markets have been taking a steep decline in recent months and investors don’t see any signs of it stopping soon. After reaching it’s all-time high of nearly $20,000, the price of bitc...
14 December 2018 Personal Finance
Retired Member
According to a research paper by Finextra and SAP Customer Experience, Engaging the Unengaged Customer, less than half (49%) of consumers agree that their banks work hard to engage them, and that they feel engaged. Only 36% agree that their bank advocates on their behalf, and only 35% agree that their bank always acts in their best interests rath...
13 December 2018 /ai /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Richard Collinson CEO & Co-Founder of RetireEasy.co.uk at RetireEasy.co.uk
Would it make sense for the UK government to state that the Northern Ireland/Ireland border can stay open permanently on two conditions: 1. Ireland stays outside the Schengen Agreement and, 2. Ireland undertakes to act responsibly in not allowing people or goods to pass through its ports if they are clearly destined for the UK and are seeking to av...
13 December 2018
Sam Goffman Business analyst at Forex
Considering the increasingly strict approach of regulators to tokens and cryptocurrencies in recent years, attracting investments through Security Token Offering (STO) is the next logical step for the industry as a whole and determines the course of its development towards a more civilized and transparent market. Security Token Offering involves ...
13 December 2018 /regulation Trends in Financial Services
In a recent speech at Bloomberg, Megan Butler, Executive Director of Supervision at the FCA, described the threat level facing financial firms as ‘remarkable’. These comments were made in light of a new a report revealing that the root cause of nearly a fifth of operational incidents reported to the FCA in the last 12 months were cyber-related. ...
13 December 2018 /security /regulation Information Security
Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.
Crypto-Crypt or Gold Mine? As you probably remember, Bitcoin was the big news headlines and the dinner table talk of a year ago. As crypto-currencies soared in value, it was rightly the dominant topic of conversation. Crypto-currencies had advanced in value quite dramatically through the second half of 2017. Bitcoin increased from $1,000 each, to ...
13 December 2018 /payments Fintech
Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Enterprise Search) at DBS Bank
It has been quite a few years we’ve broken the cookie cutter career molds with bespoke paths to success. Even the definition of success has changed. Many of us live in naive or duality of the world where a stark difference that existed within our homes were two different value systems found a or collide as they may have a few times. I am someone w...
13 December 2018 Fintech
Chris Holmes Senior Vice President at KAE Consulting
With traditional providers slow to cater to global citizens, FinTechs have been quick to fill the space, launching innovative solutions to meet global citizens’ banking, remittance and payments needs. While these are undoubtedly amongst the areas most penetrated by FinTech innovation, global citizens’ wider financial needs are now also being addre...
12 December 2018 /inclusion Personal Finance
Does it not make sense to pause for breath in this process. I believe we need to be able to negotiate a more favourable deal than that on the table at present but we cannot do that under the time pressure caused by the proximity of 29 March. Therefore, why not cancel Article 50 and then re-instate it with at least 2 years before we are due to leave...
12 December 2018
Open banking has swiftly turned from being a buzzword into the means of bringing financial services in the new paradigm. Change is inevitable and corporate culture is a good place to start. For decades, banks and financial institutions have operated by traditional methods culminating in hefty legacy systems, high operating costs, manual procedures ...
12 December 2018 Open Banking
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