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Part Two: Banking on Demand – the Open Sourced Bank

So I started this series of blogs by talking about the age of the Digital Bank and that it starts with these basics: products are cloud-based components that leverage data in the back office to be relevant to the customer in the front office. Building block one: cloud and big data. Building block two: APIs…

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Part One: Banking on Demand – the Bank in the Cloud

There is a sea change taking place in finance, the economy and the world, thanks to digitalisation and technology. In banking, I’m not sure that it’s seen, or that it is seen visibly, but the sea change is being enabled by seven key technology components right now: cloud and big data in the back office;…

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Part One: Banking on Demand – the Bank in the Cloud

There is a sea change taking place in finance, the economy and the world, thanks to digitalisation and technology. In banking, I’m not sure that it’s seen, or that it is seen visibly, but the sea change is being enabled by seven key technology components right now: cloud and big data in the back office;…

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Banks and disintermediation, Part Three

Although I said yesterday that I struggle with banks being disintermediated, I did leave out one critical point. Many things have appeared in the banking world during my time, and been tried and dismissed. Biometrics has been long discussed for authentication, but is yet to be seen. The end of the branch has been long…

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Banks and disintermediation, Part Three

Although I said yesterday that I struggle with banks being disintermediated, I did leave out one critical point. Many things have appeared in the banking world during my time, and been tried and dismissed. Biometrics has been long discussed for authentication, but is yet to be seen. The end of the branch has been long…

Paypal fingerprint

Banks and disintermediation, Part Two

Building on yesterday’s theme, I struggle when people (including myself, I must admit) shout out that banks are going to be disintermediated, I struggle when someone starts shouting out that Google, Facebook or Amazon will replace banks.  I struggle even more when rebels state that bitcoin is the future and down with the capitalists. Maybe…

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Banks and disintermediation, Part Two

Building on yesterday’s theme, I struggle when people (including myself, I must admit) shout out that banks are going to be disintermediated, I struggle when someone starts shouting out that Google, Facebook or Amazon will replace banks.  I struggle even more when rebels state that bitcoin is the future and down with the capitalists. Maybe…

Facebook ecosystem

Banks and disintermediation, Part One

Forrester just produced a report about why Google will not become a bank, but will focus upon leveraging their information services around transactions. It’s an interesting viewpoint and one I agree with. As blogged here regularly, Google is unlikely to ever become a bank.  They would lose too many friends.  But Google will become an…

Banks and disintermediation, Part One

Forrester just produced a report about why Google will not become a bank, but will focus upon leveraging their information services around transactions. It’s an interesting viewpoint and one I agree with. As blogged here regularly, Google is unlikely to ever become a bank.  They would lose too many friends.  But Google will become an…

What would Scottish Independence mean for banking?

It’s the height of summer and most people are out of town, so a time for quiet reflection for those of us left around. In my case, I started reflecting upon Scottish devolution. The vote is not far away now – September 18th – and the arguments rage this way and that. Could there really…

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