Financial IT Special Money 20/20 Issue-June 2017
- 12.06.2017 09:57 am
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 that is underway, but something much more fundamental: a commerce revolution. The organisers of Money 20/20 Europe have correctly sought to include the widest possible variety of stakeholders:...
Financial IT April & May Issue 2017
- 12.05.2017 01:10 pm
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’s 2016/2017 Pathfinder Ranking. We are looking to produce a definitive ranking of the 50 most promising new FinTech companies. Nominations have been sought from Financial IT’s community of readers and...
Financial IT March Issue 2017
- 28.03.2017 09:21 am
January 2018 will see the formal introduction of the European Union’s new (second) Payments Services Directive (PSD2) . PSD2 recognizes that the world has changed dramatically since the introduction of the original Payments Services Directive (PSD) in 2007, which provided the legal foundation for a Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Since the arrival of the PSD, the digitalization of the European economy has continued and new payments services providers – who were outside the scope of the PSD – have emerged. PSD2 seeks to ensure a level playing field for all providers of payments...
Financial IT February Issue 2017
- 16.02.2017 07:30 am
This edition of Financial IT, the first for 2017, is one of the most important that we have ever produced. Yet again, the articles and interviews that are included cover a huge variety of topics that are relevant to the intersection of financial services with IT. As ever, the topics reflect the interests of the author, the interviewee or the sponsoring organization. Technology companies, and their representatives, generally focus on their products and the forces that are prevailing in the particular markets that they serve. Banks tend to focus on more strategic issues, such as the impact...
Financial IT December Issue 2016
- 06.12.2016 08:37 am
In the coming months, mainstream media headlines will continue to feature political developments that at least appear more momentous than those of previous years. However, taken together, the articles in this edition of Financial IT indicate that the pace of change in that part of the universe where IT intersects with financial services is accelerating. Some of the developments that are discussed will give rise to headlines in the trade press, if not the mainstream media, within weeks. could well be the year in which the Fourth Industrial Revolution captures imaginations - of the public...