Chris Skinner

MAY 30, 2017

Here is how he saw things … Fintech in Rwanda: the place where Telcos are surpassing Banks in the financial sector Telcos dominate in the financial sector of Rwanda Last week I participated in the leading fintech conference in Africa “Dot Finance”, which took place in Kigali, capital of Rwanda.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

I’ve written a lot about Ant Financial – they’re a 30,000 word case study in my new book – mainly because they are the first payments platform to focus upon global reach for financial inclusion.

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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In the continued evolution of the IBM Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) product line, I am pleased to announce that effective today, Algo FIRST (FIRST) is rebranded to IBM FIRST Risk Case Studies. What else changes with the rebranding to IBM FIRST Risk Case Studies? . About FIRST Risk Case Studies.

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Chris Skinner

AUGUST 10, 2016

As my readers will know, I regularly interview innovators of start-ups and banks of how they see the world. In the interests of maintaining these case studies, as I find them interesting, I recently met Ben Milne, Founder and CEO of Dwolla. These interviews constitute a third of the ValueWeb and Digital Bank books.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Three years ago, banks were looking at fintechs with a wary eye. Two years ago, they were appointing chief innovation officers to dip their toes in with proof-of-concept projects or in-house incubators. based financial services C-level executives, will focus on the transformational leader who is innovating at enterprise scale.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 18, 2017

The first says: “It’s great working for a FinTech start-up as I get to travel the world. Banking and innovation doesn’t go together. Innovation creates risk and risk is unacceptable in a financial marketplace. The idea is to innovate outside the markets. Three people are chatting in a bar. Something like that anyway.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 30, 2016

There are a number of hotbeds for innovation in finance – London, Singapore, Tel Aviv, Silicon Valley – may all spring to mind to begin with … but what about Berlin and Munich? Yes, Berlin is showing some interesting true colours with three standout start-ups: Fidor, NUMBER26 and solaris. Two are full banks with banking …

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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In the continued evolution of the IBM Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) product line, I am pleased to announce that effective today, Algo FIRST (FIRST) is rebranded to IBM FIRST Risk Case Studies. What else changes with the rebranding to IBM FIRST Risk Case Studies? . About FIRST Risk Case Studies.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 22, 2017

I blogged a year ago about TechFin, the incumbents’ view of applying technology to existing banking services, versus FinTech which seeks to transform the financial system. That has become one of the top search terms to find my blog, as it turns out, mainly because my blog entries are the first to be returned when searching for techfin.

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Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

I’m making a presentation on cybersecurity this week at our Nordic Finance Innovation meetings. This meant preparing a few new slides from scratch as I don’t have a set deck for cybercrime, and sat and started ideas just as the news dropped about the Equifax breach.

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Chris Skinner

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

We hosted ePassi at our recent launch of Nordic Finance Innovate (NFI) in Helsinki, Finland. It’s been very successful as it was initially launched to … The post The compelling case of Alipay and Christmas appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 24, 2017

I recently was hauled up over saying that Western Union (WU) was being disrupted by FinTech. Equally, they point out that FinTech has yet to disrupt anything in the financial inclusion area. That’s why much media dislikes the WU model and hopes that FinTech firms like TransferWise and ABRA will disrupt that model.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2019

New Zealand is a country that can be easy to overlook when it comes to FinTech. These are indeed exciting times for FinTech, payments and financial services in New Zealand. Open Banking will create the infrastructure for innovation,” van Dam said. All of those factors combine to make FinTech a robust proposition in that country.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

ICBA has a growing network of people and resources community banks can tap into as they continue their innovation journeys. The ThinkTECH Accelerator is one of several initiatives underway this year to foster community bank-enabled fintech partnerships. How do we attract new talent to further our innovation goals and objectives?

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 14, 2017

Similarly, the high fees of Western Union and other remittance providers were fairly punishing … until FinTech came along. Interestingly, the most expensive choice would be a FinTech! Quite often, it wouldn’t arrive. Even if it did arrive, ti would often cost 25% or more. Now those costs are dropping rapidly.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 14, 2017

It is a laudable ambition and, building upon my blog earlier this week about global FinTech specialist players partnering, Ant Financial is already a long way down that route. Well, the overall focus is upon inclusivity and to bring the 4.5

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

And then, GoCardless in 2011, we founded it, myself and my two co-founders, Matt and Hiroki, and I was there for almost three years, and that was my first experience with FinTech. I think the word FinTech wasn’t yet around. GoCardless was a business that helped other businesses collect money. What really stands Monzo apart?

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Luckily for the banks, there are many more of the latter than the former.” – Bank Innovation. Recent fintech deals across digital, lending, payments and infrastructure are telling a big story. So here’s the follow-the-money skinny on recent fintech deals—and what it says about what’s likely to come next. Money talks.

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Insights on Business

JULY 23, 2018

CxOs are somewhat divided about whether the innovation focus will be on new or established markets. Previously, they thought open innovation would predominate, but now a growing number of these executives anticipate more internal-driven innovation. They’re neither as focused nor as agile as Reinventors.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 24, 2024

If you were to offer a 6% CD offering, like a handful of credit unions and fintechs currently do ( HERE ), marketing becomes close to free, sales costs drop to near-zero, and the sales cycle can be measured in hours, not years.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 8, 2017

I recently hosted Nick Ogden, the founder of WorldPay and serial entrepreneur, at our Nordic Finance Innovation meetings in Stockholm and Oslo. Nick is now launching the first new UK clearing bank for over 250 years called ClearBank.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 25, 2017

Housed at the World Bank, CGAP’s mission is to improve the lives of poor people by spurring innovations and advancing knowledge and solutions that promote responsible, sustainable, inclusive financial markets.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 19, 2017

And Derek made clear that “these core capabilities need to be inside the organisation at the C-Suite level”, something I regularly underline on this blog.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As can be seen, the conference largely revolved around payments, artificial intelligence, fintech partnerships/management, regulation, and fraud/identity in its various forms. The topics were perfect, and there were some great case studies, but the substance was standard, bordering on underwhelming.

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Chris Skinner

APRIL 3, 2018

I’m launching the new book Digital Human in New York on the evening of April 12. If you would like to get a signed copy of the book, just register here.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Back then, FinTechs asked for forgiveness instead of permission, rushing headlong into markets, disrupting them and operating in newly invented spheres of finance that regulators barely understood. The party always ends, however, and governments have caught up to all that wild innovation. Now, they’re laying down the law.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 21, 2018

I sometimes think I’m too harsh on the financial community, with my continual banter about core systems change, lack of digital leadership, inability to see how critical digital is to their future and the impact FinTech is making on global financial structures.

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Celent Banking

MAY 20, 2016

They demonstrated: Degree of innovation. The use of biometrics (fingerprint, facial and vocal) to access its mobile banking application positions USAA to be able to compete with Fintechs across the digital banking ecosystem and offer exceptional service to its military and family members. Degree of difficulty.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 30, 2017

Just a few weeks ago, I was in Bahrain, talking at a conference about FinTech as usual. What struck me is the interest and excitement about FinTech in both countries. I’ve just returned from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) where there were a number of events.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In the October Credit Union Tracker , PYMNTS explores the latest in the world of CUs, including friction between CUs and banks, partnerships with third-party FinTech providers, and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics to keep CU technology on the bleeding edge. Deep Dive: CUs Work To Bridge The AI Innovation Gap.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Supported by innovative technologies and processes, this collaboration between humans and machines further enhances the strengths of the organizations that embrace it. Transform for bigger business impact. Learn about the “The Future of Work” in session 7260A. Whether we’re ready for it or not, the future of work is here!

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Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

One other thing struck me as the discussions fired away in Shanghai at Lang Di … is China going to haemorrhage and bring down the world’s financial systems … or is that just what the Western media would like us to think?

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Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I now think I am a good friend of Pablo García Arabéhéty, CGAP’s Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Chris Skinner

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Another presentation that was enlightening was delivered by Jean Claude Gaga, CEO of RSwitch Ltd, the national e-payment switch of Rwanda.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I just hosted a couple of conferences in Africa and you cannot attend a conference in Africa without financial inclusion, mobile wallets and microfinance coming up. It’s always on the agenda and top of mind, because most Africans have been excluded from financial services to date. In particular, focusing upon … The post Unleashing $3.7

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 7, 2024

The uptake of this sophisticated technology is setting records at every turn from the pace of innovation to adoption. A CoE community should allow for employees to share usage tips, experiences, concerns, case studies and techniques. The power of generative AI is strong and cannot be ignored for too long. AI handled 2.3

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Filene

JANUARY 8, 2018

This paper introduces the fintech category of regtech , and the role and promise it holds for credit unions. The author then presents a case study on how a number of different credit unions manage their regulatory responsibilities.

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