We Use Automation For That…
In my blog ‘Access Is Authorised’, I looked at Open Banking and the benefits I believe it’s going to bring to the B2B market. There is, however, a lot of tech sitting behind that making it effective, robust, and frictionless. Intelligent onboarding has fast become a key requirement to make benefit from Open Banking in […]
Client Onboarding – How (un)-Intelligent Is Your Process?
The challenge sneaks up on you, slowly: A regulatory amendment, expansion into a new jurisdiction or launch of a new product. A pragmatic workaround is found, maybe some re-keying or an excel sheet to keep track. After a few years of iterative changes and workarounds, you find your organisation in a bit of a mess. […]
Seven Principles For Intelligent Automation Success
Everyone is talking about Intelligent Automation. It’s the current hot trend – the new Digital Transformation. Your business should either be planning it or have a project inflight right now. Intelligent automation is the combination of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, process automation, blockchain and IoT to solve a business problem. […]
psKINETIC Strengthens Their Team
psKINETIC are delighted to welcome David Landi to our expanding team. David has joined as a Client Partner where he is tasked with growing the business within Capital Markets. David brings with him a wealth of knowledge on both the buy and sell-side, working for tier-1 Investment banks, Hedge Funds, consultancy and SAAS/PAAS solution providers. He has a proven success record in […]
Is Salesforce.com Slowing Down Front-to-Back Automation?
Salesforce.com (“SFDC”) is a powerful platform. However, when it comes to streamlining complex processes to enable automation and improve data, its shortcomings become clear. Below we set out the challenges facing large SFDC clients on the sell-side and buy-side encounter, and how we are using Appian (www.appian.com) as the intelligent glue to ‘tame’ processes ridden […]
Business Banking and Neobanks
Getting into Business Banking Neobanks are best known for consumer banking offerings, however, there is a significant march of digital-first banks moving into business banking, which is not surprising due to the higher value of business customers to standard consumers. Recent studies have shown that 10% of start-up businesses have their main business bank accounts […]
Portfolio Monitoring & Reporting In A World Of Messy Data
Across the Alternative Asset Management landscape (private capital and hedge funds), portfolio monitoring and reporting to clients/LPs is becoming increasingly important…and increasingly complex. The need for alpha is driving allocation to alternative assets classes and new geographies where you seldom have the luxury of reliable data standards and consistency, often worst on the private side. […]
Is Embedded Insurance Too Difficult A Problem To Solve For Traditional Insurers?
It is estimated that embedded insurance could be a Multi-Trillion Dollar market segment, are you ready to take advantage of the opportunity? Embedded insurance is the bundling of insurance coverage or protection into the process of purchasing a product or service. In this scenario, the insurance is not sold separately as an add-on but included […]
Folklore, Ingenuity and Trickery
Everyone remembers Aesop’s fable of the Tortoise and the Hare. The account of this race between unequal partners has several different interpretations, causing many debates over the years. The story relates the common folklore where ingenuity and trickery are used to overcome a stronger opponent, similar to the story of David and Goliath. It is […]
“Hello Mr Rana You Appear To Have Had An Accident…”
Hello Mr Rana you appear to have had an accident … You’re driving along the M42 on a wet rainy afternoon, Coldplay blasting out of the Harman Kardon sound system in your new BMW 5 series. Suddenly, the driver in front slams on his brakes, your car is beeping loudly, and the brakes are being […]
Will The Ultimate Neobank Battle Be Over Mortgages?
In my last blog ‘Are Neobanks Changing Old School Finance?’, I talked about how the digital revolution and evolution of financial regulation has lowered the barriers to market, opening the sector up to new challengers. In short, the way people bank is changing and for many, it’s going digital. Over the last five years challenger […]
Are Neobanks Changing Old School Finance?
We’re knee-deep in the Digital Revolution, and the financial services industry has been anything but exempt from the tide of ‘disruptors’ entering the ring to shake up old practices. Historically the banking industry has been something of a monopoly, with some countries only having five major banks in a financial service region having any real […]