1023 Results from 2017
Carlo R.W. De Meijer The Meyer Financial Services Advisory (MIFS) at MIFSA
Blockchain technology has long been viewed as a threat to CSDs and their role as intermediaries for securities transactions. Blockchain and distributed ledger technology may make the role of many intermediaries in the post trade market infrastructure obsolete. In one of my blogs (Blockchain and the securities industry: future eco-system 14 March 2...
19 January 2017
Retired Member
GDPR might give people the right to be forgotten, but finding them, understanding the context of their conversations, and figuring out if they really can be deleted while still complying with other regulatory and legal obligations such as MiFID II is a quandary many organisations are going to remember for some time. One of the problems is the way ...
19 January 2017 /regulation
It's difficult to argue against any sensible form of regulation that ultimately makes the financial markets fairer and safer for all participants, but implementing and complying with all the new rules that apply across our industry is, undeniably, a very costly business. So when President-elect Trump's newly sworn-in, eager-to-please United State...
Maps allow us to use both the visual and analytical sides of our brains simultaneously. Our brains are connected to instantly understand context and make use of what we see. Maps free up our minds to intuitively explore beyond any point we’ve gone before. Today most value creation is driven by software, and financial services companies across all s...
19 January 2017 /startups
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Fake news is a problem that is taking the internet by storm, and it ran rampant during the 2016 Presidential Election. In fact, many believe that fake news stories had a strong impact on the outcome of the election. In a survey following the election by the Pew Research Center, a whopping 64 percent of polled Americans said that fake news has give...
17 January 2017 /security
Social media channels offer rich opportunities to improve and even redefine the debt-related interactions between creditors and consumers. Like any new and disruptive technology, however, the difference between positive and negative outcomes depends on the intent and behavior of those involved. Done properly, social media could be the answer to he...
17 January 2017 /retail
As we know from the PPI scandal, financial agreements can be far from air tight when it comes to being legally enforceable. Even when PPI was correctly contracted, many banks were unable to prove that the customer had seen the relevant terms or even understood them. Once one customer had successfully challenged PPI, a precedent was set for the ban...
17 January 2017 /security /payments
Vinod Sharma CTO - FinTech Domain at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe
Abstract – Essentially, digital cash mimics the functionality of paper cash. The elimination of physical cash from economy is feasible is purely a technological perspective or assumption. Our hard earned money and investments disappear into a labyrinth of financial instruments so mysterious that “money” almost becomes more of an idea than a tangib...
17 January 2017 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
This month marks the second anniversary of the deadly attacks in Paris, when terrorists Said and Cherif Kouachi attacked the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine on January 7, 2015 and when Amedy Coulibaly, a friend of the Kouachi brothers gunned down innocent grocery shoppers and held 15 others hostage in the Hyper Cacher attack. Together, the three ...
17 January 2017 /payments /regulation
2016 has just ended and 2017 has started. For most of the companies that means new strategic plans for possibility to grow in future. Banking industry is no exception. New year, new me or even better me applies for them too. Inside board meeting rooms C-level executives set new KPI's and plan improvement on existing ones. Mid-level executives have...
17 January 2017 Innovation in Financial Services
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