Sibos & Money 20/20 Issue
- 09.10.2017 09:10 am
Landmark conferences such as Sibos and Money 20/20 are essential. Among much else, they provide a welcome opportunity to reflect on the state of the global financial services industry and ask: what is really new this year? There is no doubt where the novelty comes from. The very name of Financial IT highlights how technology is the catalyst for change in financial services. Sometimes the innovations are developed by traditional banks and insurance companies. Other times, the innovations are developed by technology companies that have no intention of providing financial services. And, of...
Financial IT August-September Issue 2017
- 07.09.2017 12:57 pm
As its name suggests, Financial IT seeks to identify change and to promote thought leadership at the meeting point of two industry verticals: financial services and IT. Both are broadly defined, and include several substantial industries. Both underpin the functioning of all other industry verticals, such as healthcare, capital goods and energy. Perhaps most importantly, both the financial services and IT industry verticals are global in scope. This last fact would not be immediately obvious from a casual reading of Financial IT. Nor, for that matter, would it be obvious from most...
Financial IT Special Money 20/20 Issue-June 2017
- 12.06.2017 09:57 am
Most of the organizations that take part in the Money 20/20 Europe event, which takes place in Copenhagen at the end of June 2017 can loosely be defined as financial institutions or FinTechs. However, the scope of the conference goes way beyond the financial sector. As the conference organizers note on their website,it is not a financial revolution that is underway, nor a technology revolution that is underway, but something much more fundamental: a commerce revolution. The organisers of Money 20/20 Europe have correctly sought to include the widest possible variety of stakeholders:...
Financial IT April & May Issue 2017
- 12.05.2017 01:10 pm
We deliberately try to base each edition of Financial IT on a particular theme or topic, and one that runs through the vast majority of the articles that we include. This enables us to produce a series of actionable commercial insights that relate to the present reality of how IT intersects with financial services. A central feature of this edition is the inaugural publication of Financial IT’s 2016/2017 Pathfinder Ranking. We are looking to produce a definitive ranking of the 50 most promising new FinTech companies. Nominations have been sought from Financial IT’s community of readers and...
Financial IT March Issue 2017
- 28.03.2017 09:21 am
January 2018 will see the formal introduction of the European Union’s new (second) Payments Services Directive (PSD2) . PSD2 recognizes that the world has changed dramatically since the introduction of the original Payments Services Directive (PSD) in 2007, which provided the legal foundation for a Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Since the arrival of the PSD, the digitalization of the European economy has continued and new payments services providers – who were outside the scope of the PSD – have emerged. PSD2 seeks to ensure a level playing field for all providers of payments...
