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Payments, Sustainable Banking and Retail Reprioritisation of Digital
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Payments, Sustainable Banking and Retail Reprioritisation of Digital

As millions of consumers raced online, COVID accelerated the urgency for digital banking. And there, they’ll stay, says Bain in a study that found 95% won’t go analogue again. Beyond banking, the pandemic triggered unexpected pockets of opportunity, so here are my predictions for the retail banking road ahead. Continued Disruption in Payments As t...

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Volatility and recovery: The role of alternative data in 2021
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Volatility and recovery: The role of alternative data in 2021

Demand for alternative data grew significantly in 2020 as institutional investors sought to understand market volatility from more dimensions. This growth means that datasets that were previously the domain of hedge funds, discretionary asset managers will be more accessible to non-institutional investors as well, to make equally informed decision...

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How to Maximise the Remaining Time Before the Extended SCA Deadline
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How to Maximise the Remaining Time Before the Extended SCA Deadline

It has been an extraordinary year for e-commerce, with web traffic reaching a record high in 2020 and merchants contending with rising order volumes alongside supply and delivery issues. With the flood of new e-commerce customers in 2020, and with bricks-and-mortar stores closed for months in 2020, payments fraud is increasing too. Strong Custome...

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European sovereignty shackled to its payments
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European sovereignty shackled to its payments

March 2014: in the midst of the diplomatic crisis following Russia's invasion of Crimea, some Russian dignitaries were deprived of payment methods without warning. They were unable to withdraw cash or make purchases. The "perpetrator" was the U.S. government, which ordered Visa and Mastercard to freeze transactions from a handful of Russ...

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How has Covid-19 affected fintech trends?
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How has Covid-19 affected fintech trends?

Andrea Melville, Managing Director of Commercialisation and Propositions, Global Transaction Banking, Lloyds Bank, explores how the adoption and development of fintech solutions has been affected by Covid-19. Covid-19 has underlined how fintech enabled solutions can support businesses. This year, business leaders have reached for tools that give th...

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Will corporate culture survive without watercooler chat?
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Will corporate culture survive without watercooler chat?

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented unemployment levels, and as it continues to delay the reopening of business, employment rates are expected to recover more slowly than initially expected. However, in turbulent times temporary, contingent, and independent workers tend to grow both due to individuals need to create a revenue flow but a...

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How will a new working environment change the way companies value cybersecurity?
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How will a new working environment change the way companies value cybersecurity?

Cybersecurity is in place to protect our computer systems and networks from theft or damage to their hardware, software or electronic data. Due to technology evolving and companies becoming more reliant on technology, cybersecurity is becoming more important to businesses. Cybersecurity is extremely complex, both in terms of politics and technolog...

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US community banks ask developers to help fix pain points
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US community banks ask developers to help fix pain points

A fresh challenge for developers In my last post, I wrote about the incredible efforts of the developer teams who took part in Finastra’s FusionONE Hackathon and the fintech apps that were created in just 48 hours. The hackathon showed what can be achieved if developers are given the freedom to get creative, and how innovation can occur rapidly i...

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FusionONE: a reboot for fintech and bank developers
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FusionONE: a reboot for fintech and bank developers

Recently, it was my pleasure to participate in FusionONE, Finastra’s first ever two-day developer conference at London’s Tobacco Dock. The event brought together business leaders and developers, and showcased Finastra’s open development platform, FusionFabric.cloud, as well as the 61 new APIs now accessible via the platform. Hundreds of developers ...

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Low-code - what are the implications for developers
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Low-code - what are the implications for developers

Modern application development is a complex business, requiring multiple language support, knowledge of tools to build, test and deploy applications, understanding of client experience, data handling, security skills and the ability to provide experiences on multiple channels including web, mobile and desktop. In addition, developers are adapting ...

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Fast feedback and rapid iteration: the new game changers for developers
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Fast feedback and rapid iteration: the new game changers for developers

While low-code programming is designed to speed up the development process and enable collaboration with others inside and outside the business, any modern software development platform is now designed to create opportunities for fast feedback, rapid iterations and quick system upgrades. But what does this all mean for legacy programmers migrating...

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