Smart Data policy and practice - not as smart as legislators think?
A recent Westminster eForum in London on data portability added to debate around Smart Data policy and practice, a topic with global applicability.
Archive: Fintech
What ails data capital – and how to fix it
Almost every large firm pursuing digital transformation is also considering how to expand an internal data economy, says Oracle's Paul Sonderegger.
Digital Impact Week Summit - why digital transformation needs to be social transformation as well
Blockchain, blockchain everywhere, but it’s the wider humanitarian questions that demand real answers.
Banking disruption - consumers want to work online, but it's still too difficult to move from legacy banks to digital challengers
Consumers like the idea of digital banking, but inertia caused by difficulty breaking free of legacy providers is slowing the move to digital-only challengers.
Staying private in the age of disruption - why Aldi, Enterprise and Stripe do it
Staying private allows a business to stay agile and focused - Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu looks at three examples from payments, auto and retail
Financial sector must overcome institutional inertia to keep up with digital first banks
David Irvine, Senior Director, Finance, ServiceNow, discusses how traditional banks and financial services organisations need to keep pace with new digital challengers by connecting their digital platforms with their legacy back-end.
Phonograph and blockchain - in search of the perfect record
From phonograph to blockchain - there's a path there, says Salesforce's Peter Coffee.
An inside look at how Monzo handles critical incidents and stays online
Chris Evans, Platform Lead at Monzo, explains how the digital bank uses PagerDuty to schedule its engineers in response to an incident. He also explains the bank’s ethos to tech deployment.
Monese customers ‘bank without boundaries’ thanks to Unbabel translations
Customer service agents at the challenger bank can receive incoming queries in a range of languages and respond in kind, thanks to a translation-as-a-service platform playing piggy-in-the-middle.
How Bloomberg uses machine learning to create a competitive advantage
Emerging technology is at the heart of the financial data company’s ongoing transformation efforts, says CTO Shawn Edwards.
As HSBC, NatWest and RBS turn back small business accounts, challenger banks pick up
Challenger banks will see a windfall from failure by incumbents. Here's how it's happening.
PayPal, AmEx, Walmart - the digital payments alliances are taking shape
AmEx is partnering with PayPal which is partnering with Walmart - disruption leads to new order.
Book review: Life After Google - The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
Google's business model comes under scrutiny as author George Gilder argues for foundational security blockchain style. Does it make sense?
