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The increasing availability of data in the finance industry provides firms with the opportunity to gain deeper insights into market trends, customer behaviour, and exposure to risk. With the help of a...
Every digital financial market is unique. In one and the same macro-region you will find a lot of peculiarities related to different countries. This is what I see distinctly in APAC region. The last
‘Mainframe is dead!’ has long been a cry within the IT industry but the reality is, many organisations still rely heavily upon mainframes with data sitting on them around the 12EB (yes, exabyte) mark ...
Financial institutions are often top of the list of organisations that have been slower to embrace digital transformation. Indeed, in a recent survey of financial services (FS) companies, half listed...
In the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, financial institutions face an ongoing battle to protect their systems and data. That battle extends beyond their own systems and data to those of t...
The COVID pandemic was perhaps the worst global crisis in a generation. Fortunately banks and fintechs with the right technologies and strategies not only weathered the storm, but came out on top. As ...
In 2015, a senior executive at Mattel received an email from the company’s newly appointed CEO. The note requested the processing of an overdue payment to a familiar manufacturer. In acting on the ema...
Those of us who work in the cyber security industry have been talking about Zero Trust for more than a decade now. During that time, it’s fair to say that the financial services industry has become re...
94% of the passwords used by 5.2 billion internet users scored less than 65 on Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) security scale. I am pretty much sure that you are one of them. CIS suggests that an...
Today’s financial institutions are undergoing a transformation to modernize their organizations, increasingly relying on outsourcing operational tasks to third parties to increase efficiency. Many lar...
Data represents both a huge opportunity and a significant risk for companies in the financial services industry. On the one hand, data sharing and analytics can help organizations uncover a wide array...
In today’s digital landscape, there is a significant risk of data breaches, cyber thefts, and other such frauds. Digital transformation has enabled fraudsters to find new lines of attack and exploit v...