Big Data

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…

(Image Credit – Larry Putterman) “What Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook’s CEO) worries about the most is the lack of change, the lack of innovation, becoming the innovator’s dilemma company that gets…

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…

This article is the first installment in a four part series that talks about the ongoing digital disruption across financial services. This first post sets the stage for the entire market. Subsequent posts…

(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…

The first post in this two part series focused on the competitive dynamics in the financial exchange landscape.For established institutions that have huge early mover advantage, the ability to compete with innovative…

A vital cog in the world’s financial industry – financial exchanges have always been an interesting segment within the broader capital markets ecosystem. They primarily serve as a vehicle for household…