“Stop treating it like a BURDEN!” It’s hard not to draw a similarity between businesses’ attitude toward compliance vs. kids’ appetite towards veggies. It’s good for them but they see it as a barrier between them and sugary treats. The ...
Observation: portfolio volatility is relatively low except for Italians who seem to be trying their hand at some sort of speculation. hashtag#Sweden had a good run but dropped the ball at year end 2017 – not sure why because markets ...
Observation: UK insures pushing a significant chunk of their investment risk to customers (through Unit-linked products) compared to other European insurers – Why? Well mainly because UK leads the pack when it comes to the life insurance with over Eur ...
“It’s our company policy, afraid I can’t help you with that Sir” We have all been there. This always reminds me of the “Computer says No!” phrase popularised by Little Britain. What you are experiencing is an “edge-case” of a business algorithm, ...
This is NOT about hacking blockchain, rather how the creation of Private blockchains is taking away the innovation offered by Blockchains.
Fire your head of corporate innovation if you hear them say “99% of ventures fail”! It should be “100% of ventures teach you something new“, new being the operative word. The very reason for setting up separate innovation teams is to ...
Expectations from A.I. within FinTech is over-hyped, particularly for the back office. Here are some thoughts that hopefully help manage these expectation gaps.
China's new regulatory regime (C-ROSS) for insurers was implemented at a lighting speed, has that created more work for China-based insurers?
Conduct regulation tends to be rules-based – back and white. This is to ensure that regardless of the nature, scale or complexity of a financial institution, treatment of customers remains consistent irrespective of whether you buy financial products from a ...
