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Ivy Schmerken

A Tale of Two Pilots: Maker-Taker and the Tick Pilot

Senators conducting a hearing on U.S. equity market structure earlier this month vented their frustrations at the slow pace of regulatory change in equity market structure reforms. At the March 3 hea...

22 Mar 2016
Robert Siciliano

Protect Yourself from Phishing

Everyone has received very obvious “phishing” e-mails: Messages in your in-box that have outrageous subject lines like “Your Account Will Be Suspended,” or, “You Won!” While some phishing attacks are ...

22 Mar 2016
A Finextra Member

Look here, I am your New Target Customer!!!!

I am your target demographic. I’m a Millennial, I’m on a good career trajectory with a blue chip company (SAP), and chances are I tick all the boxes of the profile your marketing department is looking...

22 Mar 2016
Graham Seel

Banks Spend Billions on Digital Initiatives. Why Aren’t They Winning?

Most banks have high priority digital initiatives. But they are still falling further behind in customer satisfaction. In this blog, I will explain and propose steps pathfinder banks can take. Banks u...

21 Mar 2016
Innovation in Financial Services
Graham Seel

Fintech Can Solve Basic Liquidity Problems for the Poor

A simple concept, well executed. That is Active Hours, a Fintech solution that pays employees who live paycheck to paycheck as soon as they have earned their pay, rather than two weeks later. The Act...

21 Mar 2016
Financial Inclusion
A Finextra Member

Periscope is a new revolution and a threat for those who don’t adapt to change

Since I installed the new Twitter toy Periscope into my iPhone, I’ve been travelling across the word living incredible live experiences – I’ve been in an amazing Calvin Harris gig in Las Vegas, attend...

21 Mar 2016
Robert Siciliano

Three ways to beef up security when backing up to the cloud

Disasters happen every day. Crashing hard drives, failing storage devices and even burglaries could have a significant negative impact on your business, especially if that data is lost forever. You ca...

21 Mar 2016
A Finextra Member

5 Innovations to Watch in Cross-Border Payments

The year is off to a dynamic start in the cross-border payments industry, leading many to ask: What’s ahead for the next 9 months? Innovations are being shaped by the exponential adoption of the Inter...

21 Mar 2016
A Finextra Member

Way forward for today’s Global Transaction Banking

As global transaction banking move to 2020, it is evident that many banks are still not clear on the path to take. Global transaction banks are matted in their present IT challenges and operational is...

21 Mar 2016
Nanda Kumar

Can Challenger Banks actually disrupt High-Street Banks?

Challenger Banks have a golden opportunity to gain market share. Mature Challenger Banks such as Metro Bank, Tesco Bank and Virgin Money have certainly made headway in stealing market share from the “...

21 Mar 2016
A Finextra Member

Refining regulation: taking a top-down approach to data management

Given that for many Global Systematically Important banks (GSIBs) the initial deadline for BCBS239 compliance passed on 1st January 2016, it’s important that they and other financial institutions adop...

21 Mar 2016
Ganesh Srinivasan

Achieving Compliance Overcoming the Data Integration Challenges

The results of the Accenture 2016 Compliance Risk Study (https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-compliance-risk-study-2016-financial-services#block-pivoting) raise some important points to consider ...

21 Mar 2016

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