1148 Results from 2018
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Investing is important for growing your assets and expanding your financial capabilities, but unfortunately, far too many people have a very poor understanding of how investing works as a whole, and what the appropriate practices in the field are. It’s important to familiarize yourself with the most attractive investment plans available before jum...
05 December 2018 /inclusion Personal Finance
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
On the tenth anniversary of the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the media is full of articles questioning why nobody went to jail for the Great Financial Crisis that followed. Take, for instance, A crisis nobody went to jail for. According to most of these articles, the GFC happened beause of greed, laziness, cronyism and cheating by banks. We can ...
04 December 2018 /regulation /wholesale
Jared Ronski Co-founder at MerchACT
The hustle and bustle of holiday shopping season is in full-swing, and with it comes the threat of a spike in chargebacks. While the excitement of increased ecommerce sales—to the tune of a predicted $119.99 billion—may glisten in merchants’ eyes, they should not forget what is lurking around after the holiday excitement calms. This increased ecom...
04 December 2018 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Fraud is a continuing problem globally. In fact, research from Experian highlights the annual cost of fraud as £190 billion, equal to nearly £7,200 per household. Although technology to protect customers continues to advance, fraudster will often find new, innovative ways of tricking people out of their personal details and money. A scam that has...
04 December 2018 /security /payments
Howard Berg Senior V President,North and Central Europe, BPS at Gemalto DIS
The first internet protocol, invented back in the 1960s, only allowed machines to talk to each other and could not enable the secure identification of the person using them. This was not a problem for the first generation of internet users, who trusted the website they were on. But as the number of organisations offering services online increased,...
04 December 2018 /security Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
With over two million apps in both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, it’s important to do all you can to maximise the chances of people finding your app(s). A crucial part of App Store Optimisation (ASO) is selecting the correct app store keywords to use to show both the stores, and your apps potential customers, what your app is all a...
04 December 2018
At two conferences I’ve attended recently many discussions have focused on the opening-up of the banking market by regulations such as PSD2 / Open Banking and the Open APIs which support them. Indeed, some presentations have looked at the strategic imperative for banks to remain relevant to their customers’ lives and businesses by their creation o...
Daniel Szmukler Director at EBA
European financial institutions are facing an ever-evolving set of regulations aimed at maintaining stability, competition, and innovation in the digital economy. As a result, regulatory compliance increasingly necessitates a significant investment of resources toward updating internal processes and IT systems. This can have the effect of limiting...
04 December 2018 /payments EBAday
Scott Cutler Director, at Fortinet
The past few years have seen cloud adoption soar as organisations have begun to fully understand the benefits that the cloud can offer in terms of storage, flexibility, scalability and cost savings. Within the financial sector, according to KPMG, shifting back-office functions to the cloud allows banks to achieve savings of between 30 and 40 per
04 December 2018 /security /retail
Shaun Thomas Product Manager at Namescan
With the rise of cryptocurrencies and ALT coins, fuelled by the retail madness of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO’s) in late 2016 and all of 2017, we have seen an increase in the number of trading exchanges that have come to fruition. Everything seemed to be fine and the crypto industry was making more millionaires overnight than any other form of in
04 December 2018 /regulation Blockchain Observations
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