Banking in the metaverse: The next frontier
As you read this, the internet is being reshaped. And it’s already transforming banking. We have not witnessed a topic explode quite like the metaverse. While extended reality (XR) technology has been...
Sibos 2021, one of the world’s largest financial services conferences, was once again all digital this year. Held from ...
Sibos 2020, the world’s largest financial services conference, was held virtually this year from October 5-8. The theme ...
Following the rollout of Open Banking regulations in the UK and the launch this year of the EU’s Payment Services ...
Following the rollout of Open Banking regulations in the UK and the launch this year of the EU’s Payment Services ...
Having just managed to get over the 10-hour time difference and jet lag on my return to London from Sibos 2018 in ...
We have been blogging all week from Sibos in Sydney. Sydney, by the way, makes a great backdrop, as it is an elegant ...
We have been posting daily blogs from Sibos in Sydney. Here on day three, the focus of meetings and discussions were ...
As mentioned in our first blog, we have been attending sessions at Sibos in Sydney and are providing our thoughts about ...
This week, we are posting our takeaways and impressions from the 2018 Sibos conference, the annual exhibition and ...
What will the future financial services workforce look like? In the lead-up to Sibos 2018 Sarah Kruger, Managing ...
As you read this, the internet is being reshaped. And it’s already transforming banking. We have not witnessed a topic explode quite like the metaverse. While extended reality (XR) technology has been...
In a post-COVID world we have seen dramatic changes in the way customers pay, from the further shift towards a cashless society to a digital revolution in e-commerce payments. As we look forward, we s...
Back in 2009, Apple coined the catchy phrase, “there’s an app for that.” Since then, apps (single-use apps, that is) have multiplied exponentially and become part of everyday life for most people. But...
When Neal Stephenson coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 science-fiction novel, Snow Crash, he could hardly have foreseen that the phrase would be everywhere by late 2021. With bigtech giants like...
The Efma-Accenture Banking Innovation Awards have been a catalyst for innovation in banking since their inception in 2013. Since then, I look forward to them every year as the industry rewards and cel...
Every January since 2018, our annual “Top 10 Banking Trends” report has attempted to cut through the noise and reveal the real forces shaping the industry’s future. On top of the bold predictions and ...
The pace of change in payments right now might seem overwhelming. The pandemic has supercharged the trend towards contactless, online and instant payments. Contactless payments, for instance, grew 150...
This blog is based on my keynote presentation at the 2021 Payments Canada SUMMIT Payments leaders probably feel like they are living in the future right now. The pandemic changed the industry forever....
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed digital payments into a new era as businesses around the world were forced to switch quickly from in-store to online. As more and more consumers started to shop online...
Digital payments are gaining popularity as cash usage declines around the world. While card payments still dominate in countries where they have a large incumbent advantage, digital products like paym...