'Twas the night before lockdown, the ghost of past bankingWarns dinosaur bankers of losing their ranking"You move into FinTech and get with the timesOr be left cleaning dust from your pennies and dimes.A suit in the high street was fine for C. Dickensbut Madiston-ise or be left with thin pickings."'Twas the night before Christmas two thousand and t...
Finextra: Is there any aspect of our lives that isn't wholly dependent upon trust? Our relationships with our partners, family, friends, colleagues, suppliers of our goods and services, medics, law makers, governments, world leaders - all fundamentally rely on trust. With it, those relationships can be successful and productive. W...
Finextra: Consider the positives in the way that we do things, against the background of the current pandemic. For the sake of us all, it's important to try to keep things going, learn and make all the positive moves for improvement that we can during this lockdown.For most companies, the time to make radical changes is when business is quiet or de...
As thousands of financial services employees begin to work remotely, how do you get the most from your team? How do you make the most productive use of the time? How do you make sure you move your business forward and not stand still or go into reverse over the next few challenging months? The situation, particularly at the heart of Lon...
Finextra: Most of us have never experienced times like these before but, while the medics deal with the health crisis, we - the financial services and FinTech sectors - have a crucial role to play in minimising the economic impact. To keep the economy moving, we have to keep working. Those set up to run their businesses remotely online can continue...
Thanks to Sir Tim Berners-Lee we have the ability to talk face-to-face with vulnerable members of our families, without being near them. We have the ability to work with our colleagues, without being in the same room as them. And digital businesses have the ability to carry on working to keep the economy going through this temporary cri...
There are three rhino species currently on the critically endangered list, and while monetary greed has been the leading force of this demise, it was a cryptocurrency, Rhino Coin, that was set up to help save the rhino. Also on the endangered list could be the Norwegian Krona, the Swedish Krona and the Finnish Euro (in Finland, the Markka beca...
Madiston plc, digital lending software vendor, has the findings of the recent The Bank Director's 2019 Technology Survey at the heart of its Digital Banking platform. Three key points from the survey: Banks top objectives: 72% of survey respondents say fuelling efficiency. 78% say improving the customer experience. Areas of IT spend: 68...