Summer Issue 2021
- 18.06.2021 11:18 am
The elephant in the room What will happen at the intersection of financial services and IT as the world returns to inflation? What is at the front of mind of entrepreneurs and executives who work at that part of the global economy where financial services and technology meet? If you only have two minutes or so, skim read every article and advertisement in this edition of Financial IT. Give yourself no more than five seconds to reduce each of the articles and advertisements to a single and simple message. Then arrange the messages into an order that provides a logical flow....
Spring Issue 2021
- 15.03.2021 07:31 am
This edition of Financial IT stands out for the broad diversity of topics on which our contributors have written. Nevertheless, it is possible to link each of the contributed articles to one of three main themes. New strategies The first of these themes is: rapidly changed plans. One recent survey that is cited in an article found that the Covid-19 pandemic caused 58% of respondent banks to change their IT infrastructure strategies. The new strategies will, of course, vary from institution to institution. However, it appears that hybrid private/public cloud models will be used by...
Winter Issue 2020/21
- 24.11.2020 11:50 am
Three big calls for 2021 Changing trade patterns, changed employment patterns and soaring fines from regulators are big legacies from 2020. At the intersection of financial services and technology, not all the opportunities are in the spotlight all the time. The same is true of the challenges. In 2016, for instance, numerous contributors to Financial IT were excited about the potential for blockchain. Back then, other observers were worried about the erosion of correspondent banking relationships in many emerging markets. Blockchain back in the spotlight Neither...
Financial IT Fall Issue 2020
- 05.10.2020 11:23 am
The Covid-19 Catalyst Trends that were becoming clearer in June are now moving more rapidly. Sibos 2020 will be a virtual conference. This fact alone highlights the enormous organisational disruption that is taking place in the global economy - and not just in the financial services and IT sectors - as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. One of the lasting legacies of the pandemic will be a shift in people’s attitudes to physical location in the world. Working remotely - with colleagues, customers and...
Financial IT Summer Issue 2020
- 29.06.2020 06:58 am
Alongside the rise of Asia, a technology boom and the end of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, Covid-19 stands as one of the biggest things to have happened globally in the last 50 years. It represents an enormous shift. It has also been a very fast shift. Unlike the other really big things, Covid-19 has affected almost all of mankind - and in the space of less than four months (as of 26 June 2020). In the previous edition of Financial IT, it made sense to speculate about what Covid-19 could mean for the world of Fintech. In this edition, the impact of the pandemic is much...
