For a decade now, the capital markets industry has been under growing pressure from revenue unpredictability, decreasing profitability and increasing regulations. Combined with the shift to lower-marg...
In light of the structural challenges confronting many financial institutions, operational needs go beyond mere simplification, no matter how radical. It’s about questioning and redesigning the core o...
The financial services industry is emerging from a decade of adjusting to the realities of life after the 2008–2010 financial crisis and the ensuing regulatory initiatives. As it does so, buy- and s...
Adverse market conditions and rising costs are reducing investment banks’ profitability. And due to the complexity of their systems, some banks spend more on running legacy applications than the same ...
Having been invited to speak at the Trading Tech Summit Virtual 2021, I asked my remote audience the following question: “How fast can you bring a new financial product to market?”We’ll get to that in...
When pressed, more enlightened decision-makers say they regard technology as a business and innovation partner. But all too often, the technology division is seen as one dimensional; simply accountabl...
Virtual assistant services have come on leaps and bounds since the turn of the millennium. You can find smart speakers in almost every home in the Western world. In fact, most of us carry virtual assi...
Autonomous Driving (AD) functions and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) perceive traffic and the environment using cameras, lidar (Light Detection and Ranging), and radar sensors. Any defects ...
Faced with costs of equity that exceed their return, regulations that narrow margins, and competition from flexible, diversified companies, financial institutions must look for options of digital inno...
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Organizations that once shunned working from home and insisted on having their IT specialists onsite, have realized the many advantages o...
Imagine yourself in the day-to-day chaos of life with a modern family; both parents working, two children going to school or daycare and participating in at least two extra-curricular activities. Runn...
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Ever since the development of the first steam-powered automobile, vehicles have been all about the hardware. But the development o...
New rules regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) will affect how financial institutions operate. The changes will come into effect in 2024, but the time to act is now. Many of the stipulati...
We’ve all heard of Platform as a Service (PaaS), but what about Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)? When should we use it? And what makes it better? While transforming and expanding, many organ...
Micro front-ends apply the principles of microservices to the front-end. Unlike a single page application, this approach promotes agility and scalability, allowing the project team to deploy autonomou...
Now more than ever, a company lives or dies on the quality and credibility of the experiences they provide for their customers. As purveyors of digital experiences, we must place ourselves firmly and ...
A growing number of digital commentators seem to believe that the word “bank” is synonymous with “IT museum.”
Harsh? Not surprising though, when you consider that the financial sector (in ke...