Big Data

“Most people are starting to realize that there are only two different types of companies in the world: those that have been breached and know it and those that have…

“Silicon Valley is coming. There are hundreds of start-ups with a lot of brains and money working on various alternatives to traditional banking….the ones you read about most are in the…

The first post in this three part series brought to the fore critical strategic trends in the Wealth & Asset Management (WM) space – the most lucrative portion of Banking. This…

A Brief (and highly simplified) History of Banking Data – Financial Services organizations are unique in their possessing the most diverse set of data for any industry vertical. Corporate IT organizations…

This article is the first installment in a three part series that covers one of the most critical issues facing the financial industry – Payment Card Fraud. Payment Cards include Credit, ATM & Debit…

According to the US treasury – “Money laundering is the process of making illegally-gained proceeds (i.e. “dirty money”) appear legal (i.e. “clean”). Typically, it involves three steps: placement, layering and…

Big data technologies led by Apache Hadoop can help financial services firms comply with a myriad of regulations, including US Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws and requirements. In 2015, it goes…

Everyday one hears more about how Big Data ecosystem technologies are helping create incremental innovation & disruption in any given industry vertical – be it in exciting new cross industry areas like Internet…

(Image Courtesy – www.theastuteadvisor.com) “Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence-especially in cases in which large short-term debts need to be rolled over continuously-is the key…

(Image Credit – SAS) “Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway.” – Geoffrey Moore Much has already been…