1148 Results from 2018
Marina Evseeva Head of Business Development at International investment group of companies
Given the recent dampening of excitement surrounding blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies in the U.S., I thought it would be interesting to recognize the Asian leaders who are raising the influence over the futures of these fields. While influential Asian Americans such as Bill Shihara, the co-founder and CEO of Bittrex, and Charlie Lee, the ...
25 April 2018 /startups Blockchain Observations
Retired Member
Disruption in financial services has been a topic for as long as I can remember. I can vividly recall sitting in a Boardroom at New Jersey National Bank in 1986 listening to one of our senior executives discuss how ATMs will disrupt financial services. Tens of thousands of ATMs later, we’re still talking about disruption in financial services, at ...
24 April 2018 /retail
Why Zuckerberg’s Congress appearance sounds a stark warning to financial services companies. When Mark Zuckerberg was called in for two days of questioning by Congress earlier this month, the world waited to hear what questions these powerful lawmakers, many former lawyers, had to ask. With the CEO founder of Facebook in the hot seat, would they a...
24 April 2018 /regulation Fintech
Rolf Hauge CEO at Commercial Banking Applications (CBA)
Just over one year on from the launch of the service, SWIFT has announced that more than 160 global banks have adopted its Global Payments Initiative, SWIFT gpi, allowing them to make high-speed, cross-border payments timed in minutes, or even seconds. This all sounds very positive – and while strong momentum is building, a crucial factor in the s...
24 April 2018 /payments Transaction Banking
The first principle of data protection requires that all personal data be processed lawfully, fairly and transparently. A legal (or lawful) basis for processing must be satisfied before an organization can process any personal data. GDPR outlines six scenarios in which data processing is legally permitted. Unless the organization can show that the ...
24 April 2018 /regulation Banking Regulations
Sophia Brooke Project Manager at Independent Consultant
The number of smartphones users worldwide is expected to grow from 1.8 billion in 2015 to an estimated 2.87 billion users in 2020 according to Statista. In the meantime, the number of people who have a bank account is expected to rise only by 700 million worldwide, compared to 2015, according to a Gallup report. It is clear that by 2020 the smart...
23 April 2018 Online Banking
Kunal Patel Product Director at Worldpay
There has been a lot written over the past few years about the so-called impact that GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook & Amazon) will have on banking world in the future. These large tech companies are so intertwined with our lives that it stands to reason that they should look at making a play into banking. Moreover, they have invested significan...
23 April 2018 /retail Open Banking
Evdokia Kardoulaki Associate Consultant at Capco
Cyber insurance is potentially a huge growth opportunity, but to exploit it profitably firms must identify and quantify cyber risks. The attitude to cyber insurance is changing. This is partly being driven by the increasing awareness of major security breaches. Cyber insurance is now seen as a core element of mainstream business risk managemen
23 April 2018 /security /retail
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Next step - e-invoicing05 November 2008 | 2575 views | 0 It is evident - paper invoices will disappear from the business to business and business to government sectors and then later in practice also in the business to consumer/government to citizen area. The 5 mega-class reasons are exceptionally powerful and clear to see. Everyone will bene...
21 April 2018 Digital Banking Trends
Graham Seel Principal Consultant at BankTech Consulting
The simple answer: Savings Groups plus access to a formal Financial Services Provider (FSP). Sometimes! A soon-to-be-published report for World Renew documents my research on Savings Group linkages to FSPs. The key question is whether, when and how to link Savings Groups (such as the CARE Village Savings and Loan model) to formal providers like ban...
21 April 2018 /inclusion Financial Inclusion
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