Tag: tech

March 17, 2017

Retail transactions promise to become more vocal and mobile in 2017, according to a new UK survey report. Even so, the mainstreaming of chatbots and other new tools appears a while off, given the relatively low level of awareness enjoyed […]

May 17, 2016

The treasury function plays a pivotal role within a bank, and with great power comes great responsibility… and the need for automation. Misys and Banking Technology conducted a survey to find out about the changing role of the banks’ treasury […]

May 17, 2016

Advanced analytics programs are moving the meter on how banks attract and retain customers, prevent fraud, and generate new revenue streams. As a result, adoption of third-party analytic services continues to increase. If you are grappling with how advanced analytics […]

May 6, 2016

Citigroup is planning to launch voice recognition technology to its retail customers, as part of its drive to digital banking. It says it will be the first bank in Asia to do this and is targeting one million Asian users […]

April 20, 2016

Talking shops should do more than simply gloomily prognosticate or ardently cheer, even for financial technology. The Bank of England’s Andy Haldane and Deutsche Bank’s boss, John Cryan, are among 53 luminaries backing a new forum to debate financial technology. […]

April 15, 2016

What the best mobile banking apps do is look like they don’t come from a bank. Instead, Bank Director magazine found during interviews with the makers of some of the industry’s best banking apps that they looked for inspiration outside […]

March 23, 2016

“Fintech” now is much more than another buzzword in the financial services vocabulary. This compound noun represents a fundamental challenge to banking dominance in providing those services. Technically, fintech, which collectively describes a category of financial technology providers, primarily startups […]

January 28, 2016

Market operator Nasdaq has seen revenues from its technology sales increase, with its Technology Solutions division, which makes up 27% of total net revenues reach $146 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, up from $4 million from the fourth […]

December 31, 2015

PREDICTIONS are hard, especially about the future, goes the adage. They may be hardest in digital technology, where the next big thing can come out of nowhere. Even so, market-research firms, big and small, stick their necks out at the […]

December 24, 2015

Even that cartoon-strip cop Dick Tracy, with that fancy two-way wrist radio in 1946, could never have envisioned that folks would be trotting around 70 years later with digital fitness devices and miniature computers strapped around their arms. “You don’t […]