We are living a “momentum” where many more consumers engage digitally and innovation is continuously challenging the “rules-of-the-game”. So far organisations have been developing their strategies in [...]

Digital disruption has made its mark, changing how consumers interact with and consume banking services. For banks there is no way back from digital. A new landscape [...]

Efficient and secure payment systems are the foundation of stable financial systems. The German Central Bank secures and monitors cashless payment transactions in the financial markets in [...]

Finance start-ups and traditional banks are now living the honeymoon period; finally convinced that alliances are better than direct competition. There is no question of absorbing a [...]

The open-source cryptocurrency protocol (i.e. Bitcoin) was published in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto, an anonymous developer (or group of bitcoin developers) hiding behind this alias. The true identity [...]

“End-2-End” is becoming a recurring definition to describe the new approaches utilised in the area of performance monitoring (and in banking, in general). When this definition is [...]

Due to the evolving landscape, banks are currently facing more challenges than ever before. With sub-10% ROEs and external factors such as low interest rates, banks are [...]

The financial crisis is bringing deep repercussions for the SME sector (small and medium enterprises) resulting in shrinking revenues with reduced strategic vision and low investment capability. This [...]

Whilst the wealth management industry has been struggling with market volatility, low returns and increasingly risk averse clients, another phenomenon has been gradually gathering momentum. The incredible [...]