Taking charge and reducing charges
A major feature of Open Banking is relatively underused – Payment Initiation Services.
Altus
Lessons from The Boring Company
Perfecting the art of boring requires some rare skills.
The financial services technical “Grand Design”
A financial services organisation must plan and design what it will look like.
Data mining
If data really is the new oil, where is the pipeline flowing?
Fashionably late
As Steve Jobs said, “you don’t have to be the first, but you’ve got to be the best”.
Is the insurance industry ready for autonomous cars?
Driverless cars; opportunity for the insurance sector or a challenge that could lead to its downfall?
Behavioural black magic
In 1957 the US market researcher James Vicary claimed he could get moviegoers to “drink Coca-Cola” and “eat popcorn” by flashing messages onscreen for such a short time that viewers were unaware they had seen them. The term “subliminal advertising” was coined to describe this unnerving practice and it was subsequently banned in many countries.
Weapons of mass distraction: worrying about the wrong fintech revolution
Reading the technology news these days you could be forgiven for thinking that some seismic revolution is occurring almost every day! Stories abound of Airbnb, Facebook, Uber, Alibaba taking over the world and demolishing our traditional business models – ushering in a new age where the “interface is king”. But are they revolutionary and game changing disruptors? I am not so sure…
Luxembourg Stock Exchange targets fund transparency
The Luxembourg Stock Exchange is cooperating with IT support company Altus to develop a market infrastructure for European investment funds, which constitute a large part of the Luxembourg economy.
