Opening banking data and APIs: Land of opportunity or Pandora’s box?
The EU directive PSD2 may not be as famous as GDPR, but its effects may be even more dramatically felt by financial institutions and anyone transacting with them.
Read More →Big Data versus money laundering: Machine learning, applications and regulation in finance
Could financial fraud such as the Laundromat be avoided by applying machine learning to scan through data? And if yes, why is that not happening?
Read More →Why finance craves big data: A perfect storm of disruption and opportunity
The financial services domain, where real-time is measured in milliseconds, holds particular interest for big data applications and vendors for a number of reasons: architecture, regulation, transparency, decision-making, and the need for speed.
Read More →From Brexit to Trump: How organizations can use data to prepare for and respond to political events
Politics and data do mix, apparently, so we try to count the ways.
Read More →Intellectual property thoughts: on Ideas and Patents
Recently we have seen 2 US court rulings that could bring on important changes in intellectual property, one related to Patents & Ideas and one to Copyright & APIs. Even though at first it may seem this is only relevant for the US, as anyone who has ever been involved in IT Entrepreneurship can tell […]
Read More →The wrong strategy, the wrong way: cold-calling your way to marketing, technical and business failure
Do you think cold-calling still works? Trying to sell random stuff to random people on the phone is not exactly the most unobtrusive, effective or sophisticated strategy. It’s the kind of thing I would expect and advise especially technology companies to stay away from, for a number of reasons. This is an account of the […]
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