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Pooja Golakonda

Can digital currency sustain the test of technology and costs?

Generations over a period of time moved from a metallic currency to coins and then to paper notes which ultimately got legalized in the form of Cash (i.e. Govt printed bank notes) issued by the Centra...

24 Mar 2022
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Alina Jennings

What are the key challenges facing commercial and retail banking in 2022?

Looking to the rest of 2022, companies and individuals will have reflected on the past 12 months and look forward to the upcoming challenges of 2022. As with all industries, there will always be chal...

21 Mar 2022
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Mohammad Abidi

Upgrading legacy post-trade infrastructure: 3 key technology considerations when integrating SaaS

While front-office technology has enabled trading in nanoseconds, post-trade processing remains manually intensive, opaque, restrictive and slow. Interoperable SaaS platforms can provide efficient, f...

18 Mar 2022
Capital Markets Technology
Lior Lamesh

A banker’s guide to smart blockchain innovation

If there is one thing we can expect from 2022, it’s that banks will continue to size up the blockchain space, the same space they were once so eager to avoid. Another seeming inevitability is that th...

08 Mar 2022
Chris Principe

Rotten to the Banks’ Core

Rotten to the Banks’ Core - Mr. Bank, is your core rotten? Do you suffer with manual entries, tickets anyone? Are your internal IT support costs going through the roof? Shut out of the latest Fintech ...

07 Mar 2022
Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Pete McIntyre

Digital Assets, Crypto, Blockchain - what's this got to do with Treasury and Intraday Liquidity?

Blockchain, Digital Assets, Crypto, Tokenised Assets, Digitial Currencies, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). I’m sure that I’ve missed out many nouns and adjectives that are used to cover this ...

17 Feb 2022
Treasury Management
Matt Neill

Client Onboarding and KYC - 5 common complaints from the Front Office and why they happen

One of the most common comments we hear from senior leaders of Client Onboarding, CLM or KYC functions in Financial Institutions, is that their Front-Office is frustrated with these processes. Often, ...

15 Feb 2022
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Martin Wilson

Four years of Open Banking: 2022 may be the best year yet

January marked four years since the introduction of Open Banking. Although industry take up was initially slow, 2021 proved to be a catalyst for the initiative. In the past year, there has been a 60 ...

10 Feb 2022
Open Banking
Arka Roy

Blockchain-powered ACH: An Evolution in Clearing House Solutions

Blockchain is quickly emerging as one of the main disruptors of the fintech revolution. The underlying technology behind cryptocurrencies has infinite potential, including ACH Solutions. The entire wo...

09 Feb 2022
Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Christophe Kasolowsky

Is Robotics just a sticking plaster for the Finance function?

RPA in Finance Robotic Process Automation (RPA) can be traced to the early 2000s, but the technology entered mainstream Finance transformation solutions around 2015. To put this into context, a KPMG p...

08 Feb 2022
Financial Transformation
Ivan Tsang

Blockchain Technology for Commercial Banks - Opportunities and Challenges

Opportunities The decentralization, distributed accounts, smart contracts, and other features of blockchain technology will reconstruct the existing centralized financial infrastructure. Firstly, ba

25 Jan 2022
Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Martin Wilson

Could banks be the answer to the UK’s identity crisis?

The subject of Digital Identity hit the headlines again at the end of 2021 as the UK introduced a digital covid pass which was met with serious concerns about data privacy, civil liberties and the int...

25 Jan 2022

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