Big Data

After a decade of focusing on compliance with regulatory mandates, Banks are back at fixating on technology innovation. The reason is obvious – over the last five years, Silicon Valley majors…

The Global Payments Industry in 2018… In 2017, the Payments industry largely kept its promise of leading financial services – http://www.vamsitalkstech.com/?p=3425. This evidenced in two important categories – consumer adoption and…

“My vision for the future state of the digital economy – I see a movie. I see a story of everybody connected with very low latency, very high speed, ultra-dense…

“We live in a world awash with data. Data is proliferating at an astonishing rate—we have more and more data all the time, and much of it was collected in order to improve decisions about some aspect…

This blog has from time to time discussed issues around the defensive portion of financial services industry  (Banking, Payment Processing, and Insurance etc). Anti Money Laundering (AML) is a critical…

“When models turn on, brains turn off.” – Dr. Til Schuermann, Formerly Research Officer in the Banking Studies function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.Currently Partner at Oliver Wyman…

Despite the introduction of new security measures such as EMV chip technology, 2016 saw the highest number of victims of identity fraud , according to a new report from Javelin…

“Madam..What use is a new-born baby?”’ – Michael Faraday – (Apocryphal quote) when asked about the utility of electricity a new invention in the 1800s… Why Hadoop Is Thriving and…

I had the recent honor of being interviewed by Nick Ismail, editor at Information Age UK. We discussed IT trends driving financial services worldwide. For this week’s blogpost, I wanted to…

We have discussed the topic of market surveillance reporting to some depth in previous blogs. e.g.http://www.vamsitalkstech.com/?p=2984.  Over the last decade, Global Financial Markets have embraced the high speed of electronic trading. This…