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Freddie McMahon

Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd

Chatbots provide the means to go beyond the constraints of legacy systems, but who will lead change?

After so much innovation and disruptive technologies, the issues surrounding legacy systems still prevail at scale. For example, Global Banks are spending around US$220bn a year on IT expenses, with over 70% spent on maintaining legacy systems. These huge legacy maintenance costs are delivering less each year as the complexity of needs increases,...

/ai Fintech innovation and startups

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How Important is Enterprise Risk Management ?

Enterprise Risk Management. Arguably the largest evolutionary change in risk management for financial institutions has been the elevation of the risk management function to a key role in firm management. Risk is truly an overriding firmwide concern in modern financial institutions and a centralized oversight group is needed to provide governance

/regulation Operational Risk Management

Sundara Balaji

Sundara Balaji 

Banks and Fintechs: Monetization Strategy and Evolving Business Models

Most conversations around banking and Fintech feature two themes - API monetization and digital innovation. However, that’s where the similarity ends, because the two impact the banking industry in very different ways. Case in Point 1: ING – Digital Innovation ING was the first major bank to see a potential alternative business model in the digital...

Fintech

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13 Points of Clarification for FinCEN Final Rule CDD

1. Beneficial Ownership Threshold FinCEN has reiterated that the specified threshold (25%) is a floor, not a ceiling. It has left to the discretion of covered financial institutions (FIs) to implement stricter thresholds if they so choose. In addressing a requirement to impose stricter thresholds for certain customers, FinCEN directs that any incr...

/regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation

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Become a master of suspense

Starting October 1, 2018, CME Regulatory Advisory RA1720-5 comes into effect. The advisory details the limited use of suspense accounts, which are temporary holding accounts submitted at the time of order entry into Globex, but prior to the allocation of the executions to specific accounts on a carrying clearing member’s books. Only a de minimis ...

/regulation

Enrico Camerinelli

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Banks, supply chains, and blockchain

The speed at which blockchain-based applications are evolving beyond pure financial transactions must not induce banks to mistakenly think that the business is running out of their hands. On the contrary, the relationships and trust that financial institutions have built with their corporate clients are the foundation of a healthy and productive en...

/wholesale Futuristic Banking

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A Rundown of the FCA’s 2018 - 2019 Business Plan

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has just released its Business Plan for 2018/2019. While much of it focused on preparations for Brexit, it’s clear that there’s more on the regulator’s agenda. Here are the key issues raised: 1. Brexit: The Brexit issue is front and centre in the FCA’s Business Plan. Overall, the document positi

Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger Founder and CEO at UXDA Financial UX Design

UX Design Guide: 7 Steps to Make Digital Banking Service or Fintech Product Simple

Each year technology makes the world more complex for people to understand. So, easy-to-use services for consumers are in particularly great demand. Due to the nature of the human mind: it is vital to perceive the world in a simple way. Any financial service can get an advantage by delivering a perfect user experience based on a simple interface. ...

/retail /devops Innovation in Financial Services

Ahmed Khidhir

Ahmed Khidhir Digital Banking Expert at Temenos

Effects of Banner Blindness on Digital Banking

With the expansion of easily accessible and convenient digital banking services - such as mobile and tablet banking, as well as online banking for personal computer platforms - bank customers are getting reluctant to visit bank branches, and prefer to conduct their daily banking activities online. As customers are spending less time in branches, ...

/retail Online Banking

Kunal Patel

Kunal Patel Product Director at Worldpay

RegTech: Driving the Future of Financial Services

I am not an expert or an authority in the area of regulation and more specifically, RegTech solutions but I understand the importance of what RegTech can bring to the work being undertaken by FinTech start-ups and banks. I traditionally tend to focus on what's happening within the FinTech and banking industry, but I take an interest in other areas...

/retail Fintech

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