Visual interactivity of financial services to take a new shape with the help of AR and VR

2018 has seen the Wealth Management Industry ripe for change and is making steps toward innovation.

Achieving Transparency as financial institutions strive to meet evolving regulatory standards such as MiFID II.

Creating an enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) strategy will be key for financial firms carving out their Cloud strategies as part of digital transformation initiatives

Your career demands taking the leap of faith, so that you can fall and grow

UX and UI drives the designer’s goal of enhancing user experience

Financial institutions are looking for innovative ways to ensure compliance, enhance performance and maintain a competitive advantage amidst increasing regulatory obligations.

The widening gap between the internal operating environment in Financial Institutions and increasing regulatory expectations that demand an agile, adaptive and effective Transaction Monitoring (TM) programme.

The focus is on User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) design, and how these can help reach business goals and create a competitive edge for investors.While the premise of visualization remains the same, the ever increasing volume of data available is changing the way financial institutions approach visualization.

The focus is on User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) design, and how these can help reach business goals and create a competitive edge for investors.

This three-part series will outline five key learnings that we apply to all of our blockchain projects to avoid making the same mistakes

We previously discussed how incumbent-driven solutions have a significantly greater speed and likelihood for success over others

In this part, we review the final key learnings to success, and explore what we see as the future outlook of what’s to come.

RegTech is a discipline which applies technological innovations to achieve compliance with regulatory requirements.

This article talks about how financial institutions can overcome some of the top challenges and barriers to successful Distributed Applications (DApps) moving into production

This is an opportunity for the digital-savvy workforce of the future, especially those with technological specialties and areas of focus, to step into new opportunities.

More digitally-enabled business will have an easier time adhering to the new standards and are in a position to evaluate emerging technologies

Once perceived as a 'nice to have' element amongst banks, there is an understanding that capitalizing on Big Data is essential for a bank to gain an edge in today’s market

As CFOs look to new technologies to help better manage their evolving roles, analytics, blockchain and user experience (UX) design can be especially helpful.

The extent to which advanced analytics creates business value today is still limited which in turn drives up the cost of monetizing a company’s data in the end.

User Experience (UX) design can help firms showcase what’s most important and to create a new vision for data visualization

What CAT compliance reporting would entail, understand and design.

Financial institutions are facing increasing costs, customer experience challenges and regulatory demands when it comes to KYC.

A majority of major banks stated that they would be implementing a hybrid approach of converting existing entities in the EU as well as opening new offices

Web API is gradually becoming the foundation for organizations to build a digital business and connect with business partners and external entities

The calculation of market risk consists in determining a capital charge per risk class and aggregating them to determine the overall capital charge for market risk

Post Brexit, it’s important for the FinTech sector to respond to its own challenges, namely; investor uncertainty and financial risk.

This white paper provides the high-level key objectives and factors of PSD2 initiatives and next steps banks can take to be competitive in this market

Regulation has made prime brokerage a challenging industry with increasing expenses and lengthy processes related to securities lending and collateral management

Interoperability is all about relating to conversations around path to production and how blockchain applications will integrate with legacy systems

Banks now have a lot of options on how to innovate and differentiate themselves to an increasingly growing digital customer base.

The General Data Protection Regulation, known as GDPR, replaces the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (DPD) and aims to harmonize the data privacy law in Europe.

Steps to avert the next headline-grabbing and costly cybersecurity breach

Assessing the maturity of Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality for Financial Services

RegTech solutions are becoming increasingly innovative, utilising technology that would have been off-limits to the bigger banks before.

While the idea of modern-day Artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for years, rapid innovation in the last couple of years has led to immense growth and potential for AI.

Combining Insurance consulting expertise with Digital Innovation and Technology to deliver an end-to-end solution for business challenges

Banking as a Platform (BaaP) is a new emerging concept about embracing innovation and redefining customer experience.

Read on to know how GDPR can be positively looked at as an opportunity for firms to improve their business processes

Read on to know why financial services firms globally are altering their business models and rethinking their approach to cloud.

Emerging technologies are redefining user experiences as financial institutions, including banks are evolving and transforming the customer journey into an experience

Blockchain promises to greatly reduce settlement times and fees for end users, by removing intermediaries along the value chain

Vulnerabilities and risks to keep in mind when dealing with emerging technologies to prevent events like the Ethereum Parity Hack.

Technology - the key enabler facilitating vital execution strategies and business model choices for unpicking the value chain for financial services.

Vulnerability of legacy systems to cyber-attacks is raising risk for financial services firms. Read on to know what can be done about it and how.

The upheaval in UK’s political sphere adds to the uncertainties Brexit faces and forces banks to manage the ongoing uncertainty

The emerging digital strategy of financial services firms is compelling them to embrace gamification as a crucial employee engagement tool.

Symbiosis articulates four stages of Design Thinking: Empathize, Exploration, Validation, and Materialization.

NoSQL data modeling - an important cornerstone for businesses embracing system upgrades, data optimization, and innovation.

Industry regulations like MiFID II and FRTB do involve tremendous complexities could potentially provide complementary overlaps.

Blockchain may not be the technology of choice when it comes to digital transformation initiatives, but the features are compelling enough to make it part of the conversation.

The fundamental principle of the Passporting Regime is to minimize the regulatory, legal burden on firms offering cross-border services within the Single Market.

Understanding the equivalence regime and what consideration firms in the EU need to make because of it.

Collateral managers need to understand how Blockchain could automate collateral management and help banks better manage liquidity risk. Read on to know more.

Regulators are embracing data analytics as part of their routine to detect illegal conduct and to expedite investigations. Read on to know more.

GDPR requires personal data to be kept in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.

Compliance professionals should consider whether blockchain is a genuine disruptive force.

2017 could be a year of reckoning for fintech companies that might lose their shine if they do not begin turning over profits.

Financial institutions are today staying one step ahead of fraudsters by steadily putting in place processes backed by new-age technologies AI and Blockchain.

The impact of the regulation can have far-reaching consequences and at a minimum requires the translation of requirements into a comprehensive project plan.

Blockchain would allow any participant in the value chain to share a single view of the financing around a shipment.

The Vickers Report recommends that ring-fencing in the UK must be completed by January 1, 2019 and that banks need to split their operations.

Businesses operating in the global regulatory environment are definitely looking at greater levels of safety, security and protection standards in the near future.

Boosting the power of consumer behavior, deep learning enable businesses to chart the purchase journey and positively impact the outcome.

Amalgamation of user experience with business & technology strategy is crucial for global enterprises today.

Financial services firms today are faced with relentless regulatory pressures and can actually leverage the other Know Your Customer (KYC) - UX Design from Becon.

Thanks to a fast-changing global society and new technologies, change has definitely been accelerated bringing in disruption’ in the year 2016.

Numerous upcoming regulations require legal entities to be identified using a standardized legal entity identifier thus impacting the Single Market in Financial Services.

PSD2 involves alterations for financial institutions to gain access to payment accounts and is the most impactful requirement for banks.

Innovative technologies like blockchain are set to revolutionize the insurance industry and ensure that insurance fraud is kept at bay.

As financial services organizations look to elevate their brands, a design-centric approach is the secret to engage them in a more authentic and meaningful way.

The purpose of the Consultation Document is to investigate how to make the rules and regulations for the financial markets more accessible and future-proof.

Mobile app development needs to take into account business operations, technical requirements and most importantly, the customer.

Importance of Market Data Optimisation in reducing risk, improving regulatory compliance and driving down operational costs

Learn about the changes in the concept of Best Execution and what needs to be considered when devising an implementation strategy

Choose to separate the entire patch management process for private cloud environment from traditional data center operations.

Congratulations! You are looking to join the exclusive club of Chief Data Officers, one of the most important jobs in an industry where data is everywhere.

Banks look for evidence of structuring smaller transactions which are made in multiple numbers to avoid reporting.

The SEC has changed the way they run their enforcement program & have been relying more on tracking illicit behavior using data analytics.

A recent BOA digital payments study that found mobile payments are up 255% in 2016.

If in next four years 50% of your most profitable customers demand a different set of products & services, would you start to change your business now?

Finding something undesired is a hindrance while identifying data anomalies, particularly when tracking down financial crime or market abuse instances.

If the UK joins the European Economic Area (EEA), it will still be part of the Single Market in Financial Service and there will be no change in financial regulation.

It is time to stop, rethink and address regulation in a different, more holistic way, to drive down costs, improve compliance and enable critical global expansion.

While uncertainty looms following the Brexit vote, UK banks know one thing for sure-massive employee relocation costs are soon to come.

BCBS 239 being an ongoing directive, the regulators will be inspecting financial organizations to ensure they are genuinely complying with it and striving to improve.

Blockchain creates transparency around transactions and provides safety and security for not only people’s money but also their data.

Your data might be erroneous, incomplete, inconsistent, outdated or untraceable. However, there is a way out.

From regulation to implementation and about the impact of the new rules on the market.

Solvency II is an EU Directive aimed at protecting interests of policy holders and stability of the financial system.

Symbiosis Business Consulting shares some insights gathered from the Annual ACAMS Anti-money Laundering & Financial Crime seminar.

The Dutch Central Bank (DNB) introduced the Internal Liquidity Adequacy Assessment Process (ILAAP) in the Netherlands in June 2011.

With advances in technologies like sensors and wearables, there are new digital opportunities throughout the insurance value chain.

How Agile Scrum supports your IT organization in delivering high performance & business value

TARGET2-Securities (T2S) is aimed at creating a competitive EU market and overcoming fragmentation in Europe in post-trade markets.

In today’s rapidly evolving society, consumer lives in an always connected world of digital interactions, contextual data analytics and real-time advice.

SFTR is part of the European Commission’s efforts to curb risks in the securities financing and derivatives market by bettering transparency.

In the face of staggering challenges, banks should explore how AI can be applied to its numerous processes not only to save costs but to create a better bank.

'Mobile-First' has less to do with devices and more to do with a cultural mindset, change in your business model and associated back office operations.

How long will Digital disruption last, and is being digital enough of a differentiator to create large corporate casualties?

EMIR is part of the G20 commitments to prevent future financial crises. EMIR applies to both financial and non-financial counter parties.

From a consumer perspective, all the great technologies that have been talked about over the past two years, should start becoming a reality in 2016.

Managing intraday liquidity risk ensures that expected payments run smoothly and avoids negative signaling effects in the market.