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Metadata Makes Sense
For banks that have invested in Big Data capabilities but are struggling to generate value from them, metadata can unlock meaningful insights.
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The Sky’s The Limit For Treasury
Off-site storage in the Cloud boosts treasury-management solutions, offering affordability, flexibility and scalability.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Waking Up To The MiFID II Compliance Challenge
The second phase of European Union’s 2007 Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II comes into effect startingJanuary 2018. It will not onlyextendthe scope of financial instruments under coverage but alsorequire extensive record keeping setting firms across the EU for a big compliance challenge.
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AkzoNobel CEO Faces Shareholder Revolt
Newly appointed AkzoNobel CEO Thierry Vanlancker takes over the Dutch paint company at a time when it faces an ongoing battle with its biggest shareholder, Elliott Management, andseveralhostiletakeover attempts from US rival PPG Industries.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Klarna To Build On Customer Base With New Bank License
TheSwedish payments platform's huge customer base gives it an advantage as it expandsinto banking and other product lines.
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Partnering Strategically, Spending Smartly
Forming partnerships can be a good way for banks to quickly add new features, as long as they don’t get distracted from their long-term vision.
Data
Speed Or Safety?
As more companies outsource information management to the Cloud or colocation services, focus on data protection increases.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Delaware Mulls Rules For Distributed Ledgers
Delaware has proposed amendments to new legislation that would enable corporations to use distributed ledgers for record-keeping and to keep track of stock transactions, the state’s latest effort to be a first mover when it comes to blockchain technology.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Reaping Interest Rewards With Raisin
The partnership of mobile-only bank N26 with German fintech Raisin allows the bank to offer its clients, initially in Germany but across the EU beginning next year, the chance to open savings accounts with just a few taps. As Raisin ...
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Digital Disruption And Creative Destruction
Global Finance rates the top financial innovations of the last 30 years, looking at where we are, where we’ve come from and how we got from there to here
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#2 Mobile Payments
Starbucks generates 27% of its US sales via mobile payments, as consumers opt for contactless coffee. While there were efforts to provide banking through cell phones in the late 90s, the transition, around 2007, from cellphones to smartphones—with their expanded ...
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#9 Blockchain
First developed in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto—whose identity remains a mystery—as a public ledger for all bitcoin transactions, blockchain is now outshining the cryptocurrency it underpins as it offers banks and others the benefits of a distributed ledger, i.e., an ...