Using technology to help bridge the widening financial advice gap
An advice gap exists in the UK – and it’s leaving savers stumbling into poor financial decisions,...
Know Me, Consult Me, Take Care of Me: Banks Need to Raise the Bar for Financial Advice
Continuing my blog series looking at Accenture’s 2019 banking trends, this time I’m exploring how...
The latest FATF guidelines could be game-changer for the crypto industry
- 5 years 10 months ago 06:00 am
- Maxim Bederov, Serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor at a number of projects
Preliminary guidelines on crypto assets and money laundering issued by the Financial Action Task Force (...
Biometric Payments at the Top of Your Fingers
The word biometrics is derived from two Greek words – bio meaning “life” and metrics meaning “to...
The size of the fingerprint biometric sensor: why bigger is better
Biometric fingerprint technology is no longer a novelty. In fact, today’s banks and card issuers are...
Can blockchain mitigate the impact of MIFID II?
- 5 years 10 months ago 08:00 am
- Maxim Bederov, Serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor at a number of projects
It is over a year since MiFID II came into effect, yet confusion still reigns in the financial services...
Securing Crypto Assets on the Blockchain
The rapid expansion of the cryptocurrency ecosystem demonstrates the power of the blockchain to...
Blockchain is dead
I used to blog about blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) almost once a week … four years...
Preparing for the Worst: Why Cyber Insurance is no Longer a Luxury
In recent years we’ve seen a huge financial fallout for organisations that have suffered large-scale...
Digital Innovation Shouldn’t Require A Trust Fall
In conversations with banking and finance customers around the world, I hear the same message again and...
