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DIGITAL BANKING Tips - Tip 10: Location Based Services and Digital Banking

When the "Location Based Services (LBS)" and "Banking" terms meet, usually the very first thing come to mind is Branch / ATM finders in the web sites. Actually LBS have much more p...

18 May 2015
Innovation in Financial Services
Richard Carter

The growth of digital lending

It is likely that the most pronounced growth area in the lending market over the coming years will be the digital channel. The orgination process has been available digitally for several years, but no...

17 May 2015
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Banking on biometrics

Security is one aspect in banking on which no customer would compromise upon. Banks too have been trying to incorporate the latest technological upgrades so that they do not become an easy target for ...

17 May 2015
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DIGITAL BANKING Tips - Tip 9: Digital Banking Security

One of the main challenges Digital Banking professionals face is to find the equilibrium point between security and functionality. At the end of the day we all want to provide the best digital banking...

16 May 2015
Innovation in Financial Services
Graham Seel

Financial Inclusion in a US Immigrant Community

The US Financial Diaries, which have been collected and analyzed over the past year or so by the Center for Financial Services Innovation in tandem with NYU Wagner’s Financial Access Initiative (FAI),...

15 May 2015
Financial Inclusion
Abhishek Chatterjee

Rise of the FinTech - A threat to Retail Banking Business Model

Banking industry is going through a massive disruption cycle. And Retail banking is at the center of it. Fee and interest based revenues are under pressure. Traditional retail banks are facing a struc...

15 May 2015
Online Banking
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Big data, big opportunity

Despite its high profile and buzzword status – in practice, big data and analytics continues to be underutilised and less than adequately applied by a number of financial services businesses. With suc...

15 May 2015
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Survey reveals bribery and corruption risk still high

No industry is immune to bribery and corruption but a large number of companies are still all but ignoring this growing problem. The 2015 Deloitte Bribery and Corruption Survey of Australia and New Ze...

15 May 2015
Ian Stone

How to come to a right decision in highly volatile times

The first months of 2015 were fertile in macroeconomic events. The European Central Bank (ECB) finally decided to practice its own version of "quantitative easing", inspired by the unconvent...

15 May 2015
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DIGITAL BANKING Tips - Tip 8: Mobile Security - How Mobile Phones hacked and Afterwards

As we talked about " What happens if mobile banking user's phone hacked" in the previous Digital Banking Tip, now it is time to go a little deeper in the subject. Mobile security is a concer...

15 May 2015
Innovation in Financial Services
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Why Visa Europe Sale Could Be A Disaster For Europe’s Merchant Community

Merchants exposed to a US-style myriad of ever increasing scheme fees while Visa enjoys a constantly rising share price. I am greatly concerned by this week's announcement that Visa Europe is set to ...

15 May 2015
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Will banks merge with the FinTech sector?

In previous posts, I introduced the concept of retail banks’ unbundling to particular services. Also, I outlined the reasons FinTech companies are successful. I stressed that banks could defend themse...

15 May 2015
Innovation in Financial Services

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