1026 Results from 2017
Retired Member
In my previous blog on the subject of bank branch renewal, we looked at how the role of the branch was changing, and how IT applications in the branch underpin a successful renewal of the format. We have all seen the significant decline of ‘traditional’ bricks and mortar banks in the European and North American markets – with falls in the absolu...
13 March 2017 /retail
Carlo R.W. De Meijer The Meyer Financial Services Advisory (MIFS) at MIFSA
One of the obstacles for massive adoption of blockchain technology is the lack of clarity from regulators. Regulators world-wide have long time taken a wait-and-see attitude towards blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) (see my Blog “Blockchain and Regulation: do no stiffle .... April 4, 2016). But that is changing. Regulators across ...
13 March 2017
About 3 years ago when I started presenting on digital I’d open with a couple slides. The first about Fintechs nibbling around the edges of Banking the notion was these were piranha’s – one wouldn’t kill a bank, but there would be shoals of these that could. The second about GAFA (Google, Amazon, FaceBook, Apple) being sharks that could take lar
12 March 2017 /retail Disruption in Retail Banking
Henry Hilska Managing Principal at Convexity Solutions
There is an increasing amount of conversation related to the emerging technology called by the now over-used name of Blockchain. It seems an ironic use of that name since much of the actual news these days concerning solutions under development is likely not be a Blockchain solution at all, but a different form of Distributed Ledger Technology (D...
11 March 2017 Innovation in Financial Services
Tom Hay Principal Consultant at Payment Systems Europe
The wait is over. The European Banking Authority (EBA) has recently published its ‘final’ Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) and common and secure communication under PSD2. PSD2 and particularly the SCA aspect has the potential to dramatically change not just the payments sector but the wider banking mark...
10 March 2017 /security /payments
With two months of the year 2017 already passed, if a business hasn't spent the time to upgrade its existing plans already, it should certainly be at the top of its task list for a coming couple of months. One of the fundamental areas that every business needs to give emphasis on when it come to marketing strategies in the previous year is how th
10 March 2017
The face of cyber security is changing constantly, and 2017 will be no exception. Here are seven cyber predictions and trends that we’ve seen emerging in 2017 and will gain in importance as the year progresses and beyond. 1) Businesses handling EU citizens’ data will be concerned about General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The regulation, whic...
09 March 2017 /security /regulation
Quick forward two years and the difficulties and desires mobile application experts have today are total, totally unique. Counterfeit consciousness, visit arranged interfaces, responsive plans, virtual and enlarged the truth, are all possessing the psyches of designers all over the place. This shows exactly how rapidly things move in the mobile ap...
09 March 2017 Business Knowledge for IT
The leak of almost 9,000 documents detailing hacking and surveillance techniques used by the CIA is shocking, but not for the reasons many people think. Reading that your Smart TV or mobile phone could be monitoring what you say in your own house is alarming, but the real issue isn’t that the CIA spies on people. It’s not even that they do it thr...
09 March 2017 /security /regulation Information Security
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