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...
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...
