Entries for 'Digital Finance'
January 30, 2019
The crypto industry moves into the new year reshaped by a tumultuous 2018. Despite ongoing regulatory and technical challenges, the underlying technology and crypto-based applications continue to move slowly towards mainstream adoption, as evidenced by recent private and official sector activity.
January 28, 2019
FRT is joined by Andreas Treichl, Erste Group CEO and a member of the IIF Board of Directors, at Erste’s campus headquarters in Vienna. On the first a...
January 16, 2019
Christopher Kiew-Smith of the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) joins FRT to discuss the Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN), an initiative by the...
December 20, 2018
In this forerunner to deeper IIF analysis that will follow in 2019, we look at some potential scenarios where innovative disruption could have an asymmetric effect on banks’ balance sheets.
December 17, 2018
Trade finance is a business line ripe for innovation, and Mike Hogan (MUFG) and Richard Chenga-Reddy (Standard Chartered) join FRT to discuss how to modernize, with a fascinating case study in Japan and many opportunities for distributed ledger technology (Brad Carr).
December 7, 2018
Marcus Chromik (Commerzbank CRO) and Harold Marcenaro (BCP Head of Digital Risk) join FRT at the RiskMinds International conference in Amsterdam, sharing their insights with Risk practitioners’ perspectives on the opportunities and challenges in digital transformation (Brad Carr).
November 29, 2018
During their tour of leading enterprises in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, IIF Future leaders members Neeraj Khanna (Wells Fargo), Evy Wee (DBS), Natalia Bailey & Jonathan Fortun (both of the IIF) share their main takeaways and insights (Natalia Bailey, Jonathan Fortun).
November 21, 2018
FRT welcomes Chisoo Lyons, Vice President of Analytic Ventures at FICO. FICO kindly provided a case study in the IIF’s recent paper on Explainability in Machine Learning, and Chisoo elaborates on how FICO has been using Machine Learning and big data to help get better insights, with an emphasis on tackling ‘explainability’ (Natalia Bailey).
November 6, 2018
On the occasion of the IIF Digital Finance Regulation Symposium in Brussels, Fanny Solano (Caixabank's Director of Digital, Retail and Markets Regulat
November 5, 2018
On the occasion of the IIF Digital Finance Regulation Symposium in Brussels, FRT welcomes Symposium speakers Bob Contri (Deloitte's Global Financial S
November 5, 2018
As the first paper in the IIF's Thematic Series on Machine Learning, we explore the topic of "explainability" of these techniques as they are adopted
November 1, 2018
China is seeing the rise of a new kind of conglomerate, companies that occupy unprecedented roles in the world's second largest economy. With business
October 29, 2018
At the Sibos 2018 conference in Sydney, SWIFT's Head of Financial Crime Compliance Tony Wicks joins us on FRT to discuss the role of innovation in Ant
October 23, 2018
In the second of our episodes from the recent IIF Annual Membership Meeting in Bali, we are joined on FRT by Zia Zaman, Chief Innovation Officer of Me
October 19, 2018
The IIF surveyed 59 institutions (54 banks and 5 insurers) on their exploration and adoption of Machine Learning techniques in Anti-Money Laundering.
October 16, 2018
On the occasion of the IIF Annual Membership Meeting and IIF Asia-Pacific CRO Forum, FRT welcomes Nomura CRO Yuji Nakata and Bank of Queensland CRO Pe
October 11, 2018
We welcome Brian Hartzer, Westpac CEO and a member of the IIF Board of Directors, to FRT. We visit Brian at Westpac's offices in Sydney, where he shar
October 9, 2018
Continuing the IIF's 3-part series on Cloud technology in the financial services industry, our Part 2 paper expands on that by looking at the challeng
October 8, 2018
The IIF welcomes of the initiative of the FCA, MAS, HKMA & 9 other agencies in proposing a Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN). We believe this
October 4, 2018
FRT welcomes our second special guest, John Collins of FS Vector. John joins us to share his thoughts and expectations on the regulatory landscape and