Cybersecurity for banks

whitePaper | May 5, 2020

Have you ever failed a class because of Wikipedia? (We will pass you!) (100) Are you not getting enough sleep because of time on Wikipedia? (9) ...Did you not get ANY sleep last night because of Wikipedia? (100 - we commend you for being that dedicated) Are you sleeping during the day (as of 8 a.m.) because you edited Wikipedia overnight (add overslept time in hours)? (5) Do you forget to think twice before you say something to real people but re-check a hundred times what you have typed in before posting your comment in a talk page? (5) Do you judge people you know offline partly on the basis of their Wikipedia contributions? (6) Do you think quality of contributions to Wikipedia is an important criterion in choosing a partner for a close relationship? (17 and a crash course in dating) Do you subscribe to a Wikimedia mailing list (e.g., WikiEN-l, Wikimedia-l)? (2) ...Do you actually read that mailing list? (20)

whitePaper | May 10, 2023

Fintech” is a word that’s barely a generation old. But in that nanosecond of historical time, this amalgam of “finance” and “technology” or, more specifically, the array of products and services that fintech companies have brought to life—has had an impact on the daily lives of billions of people.

whitePaper | January 6, 2020

Finance’s role is evolving. Following the 2008 financial crisis, it guided the business through extraordinarily difficult economic times, relying on cost management and lean practices to keep their organizations afloat. Today, finance must switch gears and find ways to navigate sustainable and profitable growth.

whitePaper | January 7, 2020

Dramatic advances in mobile phone technology and networks present banks the opportunity to make their services more accessible. Customers can now use their mobile devices to quickly apply for new accounts and credit lines, access their account information, and perform purchases and transactions, all without ever visiting a branch or ATM.

whitePaper | March 28, 2023

Real-time processing can offer many benefits for bank treasuries, including improved accuracy, faster decision-making, enhanced liquidity management and improved customer service with faster transaction processing and real-time visibility into customer account balances. By focusing on certain key functions, we can assess which are real benefits to treasury processes, and which may require industry consensus and further investment to become worthwhile. The industry must agree a way forward, weighing cost against benefit.

whitePaper | April 14, 2021

So what will 2021 - and beyond - bring us in FinTech innovation? Central Bank Digital Currencies? - perhaps - but some would argue that most currency is already digital: how much physical cash did you handle in the last year? And how much was transacted by digital money transfer, real-time payments, card transactions, mobile wallets… Does money actually exist? The news is full of how multi-million-pound artworks can now be represented by ‘non-fungible tokens’ which represent ‘digital’ but not physical ownership of the artworks.