1026 Results from 2017
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Building up a successful mobile app require effective undertakings. Companies that deals with development of application contribute a considerable measure of investment on various tools and strategies for building a great application. At that point only an organization can offer satisfaction to its users through the important components in mobile ...
09 March 2017
Carlo R.W. De Meijer The Meyer Financial Services Advisory (MIFS) at MIFSA
In one of my first blogs on blockchain “What’s blockchain not: some misconceptions” (March 22, 2016), I wrote that this technology was not only for financial services. It can be used for many more areas. One sector that is already seeing significant activity is healthcare. From the perspective of blockchain adoption, healthcare organisations are m...
08 March 2017
Corporates usually open hundreds of accounts to manage their operations, track their receivables and segregate funds relating to different entities / subsidiaries etc. Banks find it a huge operational overhead to do KYC and maintain these numerous accounts and hence are offering Virtual Account based solutions to their corporate clients. Corporat...
08 March 2017 /payments Transaction Banking
It is sometimes perceived that investing in modernization and innovation is a risk. In industries like retail banking, where financial technology is at the heart of change, not modernizing is potentially one of the biggest risks a financial institution could take, such is the anticipated pace of change expected in the next few years. The theme of...
08 March 2017 /retail Trends in Financial Services
Dirk Kinvig Web Services Manager at Finextra
Finextra has over 50 live blogging Groups. Groups are a useful way for Finextra Community Members to associate their blog with other related blogs. So say, for example, you want to read blogs about the emerging social media presence of banking institutions, then Social Banks is a probably going to have a lot of useful content. We are sure that the...
07 March 2017 Finextra site news
Traditionally, core banking systems have been developed as large monolithic systems. There are a few issues with this approach. - To scale such systems, the only way is to scale vertically, i.e. use larger and larger hardware, whether it be mainframes or UNIX systems. The cost of such vertical scaling is exponential. - The more and more changes t...
07 March 2017 /retail
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
Recent announcements from R3 warn banks to carefully watch blockchain as long as the technology remains immature. This comes at a time in which blockchain-based initiatives see financial institutions taking the driver’s seat. The path to blockchain maturity demands the guiding role of bank industry independent associations, exactly what R3 is. Thi...
07 March 2017 Innovation in Financial Services
Settling on the privilege contracting choice is once in a while a simple an errand, particularly on the off chance that you are working alone, without the assistance of IT staffing organization. The assignment is getting considerably harder to accomplish if you are debating between procuring neighborhood staff and regardless of whether you ought t...
07 March 2017 Business Knowledge for IT
The definition of a format in the computing and financial world is: a defined structure for the processing, storage, or display of data. Data formats are crucial to financial organizations. It is important to standardize on a common language to integrate and interoperate between and within market participants. However, adoption of formats has its ...
06 March 2017
Blockchain is a digital ledger where transactions made in bitcoin, another cryptocurrency, or any other digital contract are recorded chronologically and publicly. It provides facility similar to other publically shared documents (Google Docs for example), enabling participants to view, and authorized participants to change, the contents while mai...
06 March 2017 Business Knowledge for IT
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