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A lot is being read, written or heard about GDPR – it’s relevance, implications to institutions that collect personal data, and ramifications of non-compliance. Therefore, this will not deal with any ...
Though blockchain is not yet well understood by many treasury people, and tangible real-world applications for the corporate treasurer’s day-to-day activities are still scarce, this technology is gett...
They go by many names—business-managed applications (BMAs), user-developed controls, among others. Their labels are as bespoke as the tasks they do. But it’s what they share in common that makes them ...
The value of the Internet of Things (IoT) to the insurance industry is becoming understood but there is plenty of room for even more innovation. The roots of IoT applications in insurance lie in how t...
This is the first in a series of blogs looking at the top 10 banking trends highlighted by Accenture for 2019. Building on their predictions, I plan to explore some of the themes raised, starting wit...
During the past week and this weekend, the financial services industry has witnessed an overdoze of journalism surrounding JP Morgan's first (big) entry into the crypto-coin space and most of it is fo...
By Rik Coeckelbergs Dear journalists, dear Test Aankoop, dear politicians, Last weeks there were 2 news items worth discussing: Belfius has its API marketplace made public. This is a huge step in the...
By Rik Coeckelbergs Instant Payments generate a lot of buzz in the industry of payments, for years already. Everyone likes to have their opinion heard on it: Banks, Central Banks, Software Providers, ...
DISCLAIMER: I AM WRITING THIS AS A PROVOCATEUR AND INTENTION IS TO STIR UP THE POT, AS IT IS ONLY THE CHAOS THAT WILL GIVE BIRTH TO INNOVATION. I WELCOME YOU TO THE DEBATE BUT, BEFORE YOU JOIN READ WH...
As real-time payment rails expand geographically, there’s an underlying infrastructure that allows payments to be paid to anyone at anytime, anywhere. These payments can be account-to-account (e.g., V...
Regulations and mandates often strike fear in C-suites and compliance managers, as they automatically gravitate toward how these could restrict them or hold back their business. Focusing on the puniti...
Do you fancy yourself a spy and wondering how you can monitor someone else’s cell phone? You won’t get that information here, but there is some good info on cell phone monitoring if you keep reading: ...