Abhishek Chatterjee Managing Partner at Gartner Inc.
Post financial crisis, FS institutes are mainly focusing on improving cost income ratio (reduce cost base), leverage ratios (improve quality of assets and comply with regulations) and return on equity (improve profitability). While banks were busy running a tight ship, there is a parallel ecosystem of fintech and other startups came along and start...
29 April 2017 /startups Fintech innovation and startups
Capital market industry is facing challenges across revenue growth, capital charges and high structural costs. Investment banking revenue fell 4% last year mainly due to 8% decline in Fixed income, 5% drop in advisory and underwriting revenues. While growth is hard to come by, the problem is further magnified by deterioration of cost-income-ratio ...
04 February 2017 Financial Services Regulation
Capital market industry is facing challenges across revenue growth, capital charges and high structural costs. Investment banking revenue fell 4% led by 8% decline in Fixed income, 5% drop in advisory and underwriting revenues. While growth is hard to come by, the problem is further magnified by deterioration of cost-income-ratio due to higher com...
04 February 2017 /security Innovation in Financial Services
Last year SIBOS was an inflection point for transaction bankers and FinTech, but this year in Geneva we saw a very measured response to key Industry challenges faced across the globe, starting from Cyber Security, Compliance to Robotic Advising, Industry Utilities, E2E Payment Traceability & interoperability and Blockchain. The opening Plenary...
05 October 2016 /regulation /sibos Financial Services Regulation
This year's SIBOS hosted in Singapore was a wakeup call for all the transaction banker to focus on redefining value delivered to customer. An excellent keynote from Piyush Gupta, CEO DBS group stresses on the fact that Asia is transforming from factory of the world to market place of the world. He also, emphasised on how Digital technology is cha...
30 December 2015 /sibos Fintech innovation and startups
Every business is getting disrupted by high speed Internet connectivity, smart mobile devices at low price points and availabilityof digital infrastructure & computing power on demand (CLOUD). This is amplified by the great demographic condition exist today (1st time in the world millennial are more than baby boomers). As we enter the age of c...
29 December 2015 /startups Innovation in Financial Services
Recently concluded Apple special September product lunch event was full of announcements. It covered all product segments - iWatch, iPhone, iPadPro, AppleTV. Some of the upgrades are incremental, some are transformational and most importantly some are collaborative in nature to provide the best value to end customer. Here is my view on each of the...
12 September 2015 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Modern society is consuming digital services like never before and if this trend continues we will be digitally overwhelmed & fatigued society very soon. There is an insatiable desire to digitize every experience, product, service and business. In such society it is common to have at least 5-6 smart devices in a family - smart phone, smart wri...
21 June 2015 /startups Financial Services Regulation
With the rapid advancement of technology in developed countries, we run the risk of creating a Digitally divided society. In one hand Nexus of forces (SMAC) & IoT are changing the urban life like never before, in the other hand section of developing (mostly rural) and under-developed counties have minimum or no access to Digital Technologies a...
06 June 2015 /payments Fintech innovation and startups
Recent European commission's report stressed the need for single Digital market across EU states and how it will benefit consumers, SMEs and start-ups, creative sectors and industry at large. EU commission outlined the challenges & described a 3 year roadmap to move towards a single digital EU economy. And information & communication Techn...
21 May 2015 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
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