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...
Financial IT Spring Issue 2020
- 15.04.2020 09:36 am
Only some of the articles that have been contributed to this edition of Financial IT deal with the impact of the COVID-19 virus, which become seen as a global pandemic in mid-March. As of 15 April, the epicentre of the pandemic appears to have moved from Europe to the United States. COVID-19 is yet to be brought under control. In particular, it is unclear what will be the best way of preventing the virus from overwhelming the fragile healthcare systems in many developing countries. Nevertheless, a number of trends and themes that are very relevant to Fintech are already apparent. ...
Financial IT Winter Issue 2020
- 11.02.2020 01:46 pm
One of the contributors to this edition of Financial IT raises the possibility that the global financial services industry as we know it could cease to exist. Of course, this outcome does not mean that the activities of the global financial services would not take place. Rather, they would be performed in different ways by Fintechs that are very different to traditional financial institutions. Payments services providers will enable individuals and businesses to make and receive payments. New lenders will raise funding from capital markets and savers and recycle the loans to borrowers –...
