Financial IT February Issue 2017
- 16 Feb, 2017 06:00 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 of regulation, the impact of the Cloud or what financial institutions are likely to look like in five years time.
What sets this edition of Financial IT apart from others is that, collectively, the articles highlight who is ultimately driving the entire transformation of the global financial services sector: the banks’ clients. For instance, one of contributors explains the concept of ‘the segment of one’. Each customer of a financial institution is different and worthy of detailed understanding. The implication of this is that products that can use the understanding of the client to fight fraud and to comply with Anti-Money Laudering/Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) regulations – which always impose costs on an institution– can be used to generate revenue.
In this issue you will read the following articles and interviews:
Top Story
Lead Stories
"Bridging the gap" by Pamela Pecs Cytron, the Founder and CEO of Pendo Systems Inc.
"Helping banks with the omni-channel approach", an interview with Katherine Kostereva, CEO and Managing Partner of bpm’online
Innovation corner
"Reinventing Banking software", an interview with Angelique Schouten, CEO at Ohpen UK
Interview
"How K&H Bank made BIg Data meaningful " by Balazs Gati, Head of Department at K&H Bank Zrt
Featured Stories
Digitisation will help delete the fraudsters from the trade finance system
Digital Transformation: Farewel to the traditional bank branch?
Achieving Digital Transformation in Banking
Uncertain times call for sophisticated analysis and the adoption of a smart risk culture
2017 – Prepare for another roller-coaster ride
Running at the Speed of Data – real-time use cases that get banks moving
The next stage of the technological evolution for the financial industry
