Financial IT Fall Issue 2022
- 10.10.2022 08:41 am
Sibos, which this year takes place in Amsterdam on 10-13 October 2022, is no small undertaking and requires months of planning. It is unlikely that, when planning began, the organisers at SWIFT would have foreseen what would happen over the course of the first nine months of the year. In no particular order, and without getting caught up in the details, the world’s developed economies have seen: rampant inflation; a succession of sizeable increases in official interest rates that have been announced by central banks; rising bond yields (or, if you prefer, falling bond prices);...
Financial IT Summer Issue - Special Money 20/20 Europe Edition
- 07.06.2022 07:35 am
What is this edition of Financial IT really all about? In theory, it should be very easy to sum up the insights that are, collectively, delivered by our contributors and supporters in an Editors’ letter. Each edition nominally has a main topic – and the contributions are usually related quite closely to that topic. In practice, though, the intersection of financial services with IT is a dynamic and complex place: this means that we typically (and gladly) receive contributions that deal with a totally different topic. The result is that a certain amount of...
Financial IT Spring Issue 2022
- 03.03.2022 11:29 am
Questions of security, opportunity and diversity This Editor-in-Chief’s letter is being written as Russia’s armed forces are mounting what appears to be a full-scale invasion of Ukraine – a truly appalling outcome after months of mounting geo-political tension. It remains to be seen what is (or will be) the role of cyber-warfare in this conflict. This edition of Financial IT is dedicated in no small part to how technology can boost security in financial services. This is because security – or the lack of it – is a massive challenge for financial institutions and the technology...
Financial IT Winter Issue 2021/22
- 16.12.2021 06:50 am
Towards the sunny uplands Financial services and technology companies can look forward to a bright future. They need to get through 2022 first. As usual for a year-end edition of Financial IT, many of our contributors discuss what is likely to happen in the coming year or so, taking a positive view. One contributor, for instance, argues that businesses and financial institutions are on their way towards “hyper-automation”. This is a destination that is difficult to define exactly. Nevertheless, some of the statistics from the recent past show what the journey is likely to be like...
Financial IT - Fall Edition 2021 supporting Money 20/20 Europe
- 20.09.2021 07:31 pm
Questions of fluidity What has really changed in the world of financial IT since the middle of the year? “Be water, my friend” was a famous piece of advice from the great Chinese-American actor, director and martial arts expert Bruce Lee. The metaphor suggests that survival and success comes from fluidity - the ability to fill irregular and rapidly changing spaces in a very short period of time. Fluidity is often demonstrated under pressure, with the result that liquids flow in a direction that would usually be seen as being uphill. However, in the context of financial IT in...
