Medium and large companies normally have technology strategies in place. These support connections with vendors, with clients, intranet systems, CRMs, and so on. But these different corporate tools may lack coherence and the proper support. Or worse: they may not be completely interchangeable.
fin:CODE, with the slogan "Defining the DEV in the financial industry," was held in March in Frankfurt. This is the only event in Europe primarily focused on addressing the challenges that banks, asset management companies and insurance companies are experiencing as they adopt and scale DevOps in their businesses.
For some years now, APIs have been the great catalyst of change in business organizations. And that is essentially, thanks to its capacity to generate new business models and increase their profits.
The use of Big Data today offers an important added value for a wide range of sectors, from banking to retail.
What is the current status of smartphone payments? Which companies are contributing the most to this new path of business? And what role can APIs play in the ecosystem of mobile payments?
We took part in the 2nd Annual Open Banking and APIs Forum in Amsterdam, in order to share our experience in open banking and to see what other players are doing in relation to this major opportunity -and challenge-.
Localism and lack of standardization in retail banking are some of the problems facing open banking in Europe. Despite this, experts predict a "bright future" in which the main beneficiary will be the consumer.
How do town-planning decisions affect a city's routines? How can data help assess and make decisions? The granularity and detailed information offered by PayStats allowed Madrid's city council to draw a more accurate map of consumer behavior and gain an objective measurement of the impact of the traffic restriction measures on commercial activity.
Hay quien lo llama ‘revolución’, otros prefieren definirlo como ‘evolución’. Sea como fuere, la fuerte transformación que vive el sector bancario impulsada por la entrada en vigor en noviembre de 2018 de la directiva europea sobre servicios de pago digitales PSD2, lleva aparejada un cambio en los perfiles profesionales que demanda la industria.
