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