Financial IT Fall Issue 2023
- 17.09.2023 07:51 pm
Technology in the time of peace The Editors’ Letter written for the Sibos 2022 edition of Financial IT had a rather grim tone. Entitled ‘Technology in the Time of War’, its main message was as follows: ‘In any event, the world is one where the leaders of financial services organisations need to become, as one of the contributors to this edition of Financial IT put it, “Wartime CFOs”. We would suggest that a Wartime CFO is one who can respond very quickly to a rapidly changing situation. A Wartime CFO may work for a long-established and traditional financial...
Financial IT Summer Issue 2023
- 29.05.2023 07:49 am
The mirror and the microphone of fintech What really matters right now to fintech’s decision-makers? In preparing this edition of Financial IT, we spoke to the organisers of the Money 20/20 Europe conference, which takes place in Amsterdam on 6-8 June. The organisers see themselves as being the ‘mirror and microphone’ of fintech. We fully agree with that description. Accordingly, we put three questions to them. Perpetual motion Our first question was: what do the organisers consider to be the biggest changes that have taken place over the last year? We...
Financial IT Spring Issue 2023
- 07.03.2023 03:37 pm
Much more than just ISO 20022 What is redefining the future of financial services around the world? This edition of Financial IT supports FinovateEurope 2023, which takes place in London on 14-15 March. The conference brings together a variety of people ‘who are redefining the future of financial services around the world’. In this magazine, we bring together a variety of contributors who, collectively, explain what is redefining the future of financial services around the world. - Unexpected consequences of ISO 20022 - Regulators following change and regulators...
Financial IT Winter Issue 2022/23
- 30.11.2022 08:16 am
Financial IT receives contributed articles that, almost invariably, are forward- looking. The contributions identify the trends that apply in technology generally, cybersecurity, payments, and so on. These trends give rise to specific issues or problems, which the organisation that is contributing the article is well placed to address. The overall message is a positive one. Protagonists in the private sector are working at the intersection of IT and financial services to produce better outcomes for customers, shareholders and other stakeholders. What makes this edition of...
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);...
