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Innovation in Financial Services

A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.

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Scaling DevOps and delivery with a platform

One of the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the increased urgency with which firms approach digital transformation. These initiatives aim to improve customer satisfaction, retention and acquisition through the development of modern applications to increase agility for faster delivery of products and services. Modern application developmen...

/cloud /devops

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Will international revolutions change the Dutch mortgage market?

Where the Dutch mortgage market is growing steadily and there are few major shifts, there is plenty of movement in the international market. The return on mortgages is good compared to other forms of lending and banking products. For example, it prompted Bunq to offer Venn Hypotheken. In neighbouring countries, the mortgage market is shifting cons...

/retail /cloud

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Why Technology Will Drive Competitive Advantage in the Payments Industry

Recently, I have seen a growing number of decision makers in financial institutions taking a different approach to technology. This is because they have realised that many of the systems they relied on in the past on are now struggling to cope, and there are major questions about their future resilience. According to an Accenture report this June,...

/payments /cloud

Tatsiana Kuchminskaya

Tatsiana Kuchminskaya Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Andersen

How APIs Are Changing Investment Platforms

What is an API? Why has this technology revolutionized the investment industry? Let's talk about API-based FinTech solutions used by financial institutions to introduce new products and services, increasing their competitive power in the market. What an API is The word 'API' stands for ‘Application Programming Interface’ and is used for one appl...

/inclusion /markets

Kartik Swaminathan

Kartik Swaminathan Author - 3F: Future Fintech Framework & Founder at Fintastech (Fintech Consulting & Coaching)

If BNPL, then why not PNBL?

While we have seen phenomenal growth in the BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) segment in recent past, and I have already done a post on BNPL stating how the product is digital native, helping to expand the market and improve conversions for merchants too. So, while we have BNPL, my take is why not also have PNBL – Pay Now Buy Later. While BNPL is Lending &#...

/payments /sustainable

Garima Chaudhary

Garima Chaudhary Head of Fin. Crime Solution Consulting - Americas at Oracle

8 Ways Innovative Technologies can Boost AML/CFT Program Effectiveness

The current financial crime compliance management efforts are based on a combination of automated but static analysis of a pre-determined set of risk factors, together with human judgement. Legacy systems are updated with new algorithms and manually inputted information, generating matrixes for risk interpretation and action, but these very rarely...

/regulation /crime

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Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Anti-Money Laundering: How to Address Bias

Introduction The eager and rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (A.I.) by financial institutions (F.I.s) may surprise those outside this otherwise cautious industry. However, the industry consensus is clear that intelligent technologies such as A.I. are major factors in the race to differentiate and establish market share. For example, a surv...

/regulation /crime

Sunil Jhamb

Sunil Jhamb Founder and CEO at WLPayments

Innovations That Facilitate Quick and Seamless Payments

Regarding online payments, customers are always looking for quick and convenient ways to pay for their purchases. After all, our daily interactions with technology have prompted us to expect a seamless experience with instantaneous availability and an easy-to-use interface in the realm of digital payments as well. This makes technological innovati...

/payments /markets

Kartik Swaminathan

Kartik Swaminathan Author - 3F: Future Fintech Framework & Founder at Fintastech (Fintech Consulting & Coaching)

Fintech Regulations - Way Ahead

With so much happening in Fintech regulators have a challenge at hand. We have in recent past seen many regulatory actions in India and am sure there are many taking place globally too. Highlighting some as below: - - Curbs on UPI driven lending innovations like Bullet, Lazypay etc. as regulators felt they are more like Overdrafts rather than pa...

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Paul Shumsky

Paul Shumsky Technology Advisor at Entrepreneur

Top 4 Remittance Providers For FinTechs

If you are a FinTech company building an international money transfer, payment solution or remittance platform, an integral part of it would be a cross-border money transfer processor. The only other alternative is creating your own banking network by forging relationships with traditional banks which is lengthy and requires a huge effort. By inte...

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