Technology Innovation

“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…

The Wealth Management segment is a potential high growth business for any financial institution.  It is the highest customer touch segment of banking and is fosteres on long term and extremely lucrative advisory relationships. It is also the segment…

The decentralized, peer to peer,high secure and purely digital currency finally came of age in 2015. Bitcoin (BTC) & other variants (the AltCoins) got widespread & positive notice by all industry actors…

This final post in this three part series on Payment Card Fraud covers the evolving business landscape in countering Payment Card Fraud and will make specific recommendations from a best practices,…

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…

(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…