1026 Results from 2017
Retired Member
Blockchain has captured the imagination of intellectuals and polity alike with economists, technologists, governments raving about its potential and how its poised to fundamentally change the world. Though the very genesis of blockchain was about disintermediating banking and introducing a transparency that didn’t require numerous layers of interme...
03 June 2017 Trends in Financial Services
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
Last year August I wrote a blog on what to expect for 2017. Now we are halfway 2017, so it is time to look forward to next year: 2018. According to the Gartner Hype Cycle we are now in the “Trough of Despair” stage. That indicates that we have left the overhyped period behind us, and entered a more realistic period with real-world applications. So...
03 June 2017
Most international payments providers exist as an alternative to high street banks. They provide their customers with a good deal, are transparent about their fees, deliver excellent customer service, and transfer money quickly, without hassle. Despite this, the wider international payments industry has been tarnished by allegations of profiteering...
02 June 2017 /payments /regulation Financial Services Regulation
Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.
Future Shout Out !! I wake up every morning thinking about what innovation, idea's, enhancements, additions, changes, etc. I can offer that will push the future of finance another step forward. I believe many of you have similar thoughts and have a creative need to be part of this changing landscape as well as to be ahead of the curve. I also beli...
02 June 2017 /sibos Fintech
Stacey Small Business Development at The Glue
When designing a software solution, ‘micro-services’ is one of today’s buzz words with which you need to be compliant to be cool. But what is a micro-service and what is the size of a micro-service? As with every topic on application architecture and software engineering, a good source of inspiration are the blog posts from Martin Fowler (http://ma...
02 June 2017 Digital Banking Trends
Victor Martin CMO at SquareRoot
If you have a WordPress website which is pretty mobile optimized, you might have considered creating a mobile app for the same is not a very urgent necessity. Yes, mobile browsing is the mainstream of web browsing now, and a mobile optimized site is the need of the hour for any web venture. But when you compare native apps for WordPress websites, ...
02 June 2017 Business Knowledge for IT
Many enterprise electronic communications (eComms) applications offer an attractive proposition to businesses by delivering lower costs, more features and access to newer desktop apps. But while they might be extremely effective business tools, often they don’t provide the functionality required to meet the compliance and eDiscovery needs for orga...
02 June 2017 /security /regulation Financial Services Regulation
onsider this scenario. Sam has to pick up some checks from a client, but his car is in the shop. So, Sam takes an Uber to the client's office, gets the checks, scans the checks into a business account using his iPhone, takes another Uber (making a dinner reservation through OpenTable while inside Uber), arrives at the restaurant, sits down to eat,...
01 June 2017 /retail Financial Risk Management
“Buy the ticket, take the ride.” Hunter S. Thompson’s quote can easily be applied to Open Banking, which becomes mandatory in the UK starting 2018. Banking innovation lead by the regulator! It’s reminiscent of the Monty Pythons’ line of what has the Romans (regulators) done for us? Well the regulatory gave the banking industry and its clients real...
01 June 2017 Futuristic Banking
Sameer Singh Jaini CEO at www.TheDigitalFifth.com
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs As we look around, we are seeing innovations and frictionless customer experience coming from multiple industries. iPhone / MacBook / Ola / Uber / Google / Amazon are taking our experience to the next level. AI / Blockchain / RPA / API technologies are goin...
01 June 2017 /retail Futuristic Banking
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