1023 Results from 2017
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There is an increasing trend on smartphone adoption, all over the world. In 2016 alone, there is as many as 2 billion smartphone users, all over the world. But, most of this growth is not only limited to U.S, but rather more because of the developing countries such as China and India. In such a scenario, you must direct all of your marketing effor...
13 February 2017 /startups
Hugo Cuevas-Mohr CEO at Mohr World Consulting - IMTC Conferences
After a series of media interviews a couple of weeks ago, in a trip to Guatemala, I realized in a moment that I was witnessing a change in the public perception of remittances that I had not grasped before. Answering one by one journalist questions, it was unquestionable that I was witnessing a shift that I had not noticed before. After thinking a...
13 February 2017 /inclusion Innovation in Financial Services
Graham Seel Principal Consultant at BankTech Consulting
OK for most of us this sounds crazy. Cash management is a commodity. All the big banks do it. All the small banks offer it, even if they have to outsource it. Companies need it but there’s nothing new under the sun. Right? Wrong! Business banking is going to change. Today banks are primarily used as ways to carry out financial transactions. But in ...
10 February 2017 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
A year as full of unexpected and potentially disruptive events as 2016 may lead banks to focus on downside risks as they look ahead cautiously to 2017 and beyond. As a born optimist, I take a slightly different view. Notwithstanding its headline-grabbing political and macro-economic developments, last year confirmed many of the long-term trends re-...
10 February 2017
Urvish Macwan Team Leader at Hyperlink Infosystem
Until recently, the world has witnessed significant revolutions in mobile technologies beginning from the radio frequency technology right to 3G technology that has hit the waves all over the world. However, technology being one of the most dynamic areas in the world, the 3G technology is now gradually being faced out by the 4G technology. It is u...
10 February 2017 /payments
"Generation rent" is usually a term associated with the property market to refer to a generation of private renters who either cannot or chose not to buy. But the term no longer exclusively applies to the property market. In fact, a recent report[1] by Goldman Sachs suggests that 18 to 34-year-olds (Millennials) place less value on the o...
09 February 2017
Banks have traditionally had an aversion to cloud computing over security fears. Whilst just about every other industry has made the transition, banks have been one of the last to adopt cloud technology. It’s now a position that’s becoming harder and harder to justify. Regulators have given both guidance and a green light, and ironically, modern c...
09 February 2017 /security
2017 brings the beginning of a number of impending reforms and regulations kicking in for the derivatives industry. Global changes on rules regarding margin requirements for uncleared swaps trades go into effect this year. Firms will also have to prepare for the implementation of the The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, better known as ...
Most western economies have experienced little or no growth since the global financial crisis.However, fewer resources are often a trigger for innovation and better long-term planning. Before hard times fell upon the western world, banks would build their own solutions. But this outdated technology is preventing digital transformation programmes t...
09 February 2017 /wholesale
Allow me to invite you on a little adventure. Down The Rabbit-Hole So, my friend has a beautiful daughter Alice. She is only four years old, but she is already jumped into modern Rabbit-Hole of technology. When I was watching her, she took my smartphone, and launched camera app. In half an hour she overloaded phone memory with hundreds of photos...
09 February 2017 Innovation in Financial Services
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