September 12, 2017
Mastering data is difficult. You could easily get lost amongst the buzzwords; digital, pull, Big Data, APIs, PSD 2. In a recent post, I commented on the need for financial services firms to think beyond the must do regulatory stuff of PSD 2 which forces them to open up their data for third parties to […]
September 5, 2017
Data is not an IT problem. Data is a business problem. Business is the dog and IT is the tail. Sure it is, you might say, but do things work the right way in your shop? I bet not. Experience from the University of Life (First Class Honours) and the School of Hard Knocks (Summa […]
August 29, 2017
Data quality is either the root of all evil or the fountain of all good. My view is that 80% of the time, evil wins. Data quality is not just a challenge for the big behemoth banks, it is even a challenge for new businesses that thrive on new technology, practice all things Lean & […]
August 15, 2017
Liquidity & Capital; two well known quantities which banks need to manage. That they have some cost is not news and not worth sharing. What I hope is worth sharing is a view of just how expensive those things are and what banks need to do to manage that expense. This week’s post pulls together […]
July 24, 2017
“It’s gonna be great!” If the Donald were to tweet on Blockchain, those would be his words. Like the rest of us though, he would not be clear on when and we would all be a little vague on that phrase so beloved of our colleagues in Agile development; “the definition of done”. Despair not […]
July 10, 2017
Create an App, go Digital. Simples. Everybody is doing it. A recent experience of dealing with my medical insurance here in Switzerland proves just the opposite. I hope readers will share their examples of “digital gone wrong”. Swiss practice is that you do your own insurance; there is no such thing as company medical. Since […]