Financial IT January Issue 2018
By the time the next edition of Financial IT is published, in early 2018, the revised Payments Services Directive (PSD2) and enhanced Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) will be in force across the European Union (EU). By the end of May 2018, banks that are operating in the EU will also have to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Through 2016 and 2017,...

Sibos & Money 20/20 Issue
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...

Financial IT August-September Issue 2017
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...

Financial IT Special Money 20/20 Issue-June 2017
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...

Financial IT April & May Issue 2017
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’...