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Shaju Nair Payments SME, Product Manager at Temenos
Just about a decade ago, banks worried about fintechs taking away 'some' of their businesses. Some years ago, banks worried about cryptocurrencies taking away 'more' of their businesses. Today banks need to worry if central banks would take away 'most' of their businesses. Welcome to CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currencies) - the dragon Dracarys of ...
13 June 2021 /payments /crypto
Thomas Pintelon Head of Strategy at Capilever
Under increasing pressure from disruptive Fintechs and changing customer expectations, the banking landscape has drastically changed. Over the past 5 years, banking has been transformed from a risk-averse, very conservative sector to one of the fastest moving and innovating sectors in the world. Such innovation can be found anywhere in banking, ma...
01 June 2021 /wealth /retail
James Wooster COO at Glue42
Regardless of whether you are a trader or a portfolio manager, the user journey in Financial Services is, to date, a tale of disparate technologies, inconsistent ergonomics, and poorly optimized workflows. Financial institutions constantly innovate and introduce new applications, thus placing a significant cognitive demand on the end user. While a...
08 April 2021 /wealth /devops
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Having a true "blue" (introvert and analytical) personality type, I often feel envy towards charismatic (often extravert) entrepreneurs and more specifically the ease with which they can setup new businesses and coordinate different activities. At the same time, it amazes me how many of those successful entrepreneurs have poor skills in f...
05 April 2021 /startups
Hans Hagen Founder at Alphastrike
Most businesses have some problem they need to solve at any given point in time. These days, getting stellar growth may be a challenge, and the cost of acquiring a new customer seems to go only one way. Up. Ouch! For others, it may be that the business you set up a few years back is no longer performing as expected, and a change is needed. But you...
24 March 2021 /startups /inclusion
Emilie Casteran CEO at YouTransactor
Tech-savvy consumers started using leading mobile wallets in the likes of Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, a few years back. Under the circumstances created by COVID-19, a new wave of adopters joined the ranks as more and more in-store clients favored contactless transactions. So it is now widely known that smartphones can be used as a payment ...
09 March 2021 /payments /predictions
Paul Shumsky Technology Advisor at Entrepreneur
Growing Impact of Financial Software Solutions The COVID-19 pandemic provided a unique opportunity for the fintech industry. It fast tracked a shift from traditional banking services predominance to the abundant digitalization of financial services. This year is likely to be just as momentous, with digital banking no longer considered just a finan...
09 March 2021 /payments /retail
Steve Strickland-Wright Group CTO at Fluent Money Group
Today’s forward-thinking financial services providers are turning to next-generation technologies such as Big Data Analytics, AI, and cloud-native applications. This shift in direction has been sparked by a need to match the performance and flexibility of new market entrants and to meet growing market expectations for digital services. With the de...
08 March 2021 /cloud /markets
Retired Member
Recent money-laundering scandals have shaken public trust in the banking sector. How can banks rethink their approach to AML? The BBC’s recent Panorama documentary, “Banking Secrets of the Rich and Powerful,” is an uncomfortable watch for anyone working in the banking sector. While all banks have anti-money laundering (AML) teams and talk about t...
03 March 2021 /crime
Stu Bradley Sr. VP of Risk, Fraud and Compliance Solutions at SAS
2020 was a year like no other, as disruption from the novel coronavirus pandemic created interlinked health and economic crises. In retrospect, the unknown magnitude of COVID-19 and its ripple effects did little to derail the accuracy my 2020 fraud predictions. Three of the five came to fruition, and we saw partial progress toward the remaining tw...
25 February 2021 /crime /predictions
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