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Introduction Steve Ellis, Metia Core Banking Daniel Latimore, Celent Christine Barry, Aite Group Daniel Mayo, Ovum Capital Markets David Easthope, Celent Sang Lee, Aite Group Cryptocurrency David Birch, Consult Hyperion Scott Dueweke, Booz Allen Hamilton Zennon Kapron, KapronAsia Julie Conroy, Aite Group Gilles Ubaghs, Ovum Enterprise Data Management Virginie OShea, Aite Group Ben Keeler, Citisoft Bank Marketing Jaroslaw Knapik, Ovum Michael Araneta, IDC Insurance Craig Weber, Celent Donald Light, Celent Pat Speer, Aite Group 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Payments Gareth Lodge, Celent Gilles Ubaghs, Ovum Leo Lipis, Lipis & Lipis Thomas Zink, IDC Amy Hoke, Mercator Retail Banking Zilvinas Bareisis, Celent Stephen Greer, Celent Tim Walker, Deloitte UK Lucian Morris, Deloitte UK Richard Samuel, Deloitte UK Risk Management Peyman Mestchian, Chartis Research Medy Agami, Celent Trade Execution Kevin McPartland, Greenwich David B. Weiss, Aite Group Outsourcing Eike Bieber, PAC Peter Bendor-Samuel, Everest Jimit Arora, Everest How we chose our key influencers Sally Yates, Metia 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 33 34 34 34 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 46
After 25 years in the sector, we are certain financial technology has never been more challenging, faster moving, more surprising, more exciting or, quite simply, more difficult to forecast.
Steve Ellis
Founder, Metia
INTRODUCTION
Can you count the implications of technology change and the evolution of financial services crashing together?
Increased burden of compliance Crushing pressure on the balance sheet Pervasive threat of organized crime Emergence of new entrants Focus on customer experience Growth of mobile Disruption in the financial supply chain Indifferent, fickle customers Consumerization of technology Unknown implications of cryptocurrencies Thats just some. The 34 expert analysts contributing to this the first Fintech Insight report examine these and many more. After 25 years in the sector, we are certain financial technology has never been more challenging, faster moving, more surprising, more exciting, or, quite simply, more difficult to forecast. If you want to know how we selected these influencers from among the many expert opinions in the world of fintech go to page 46. Lastly, a heartfelt thank you to all our contributing experts for sharing your insight and wisdom, Im already looking forward to see how the year ahead unfolds for fintech. We trust you find the report provides a valuable collection of expert viewpoints and a handy jumping off point to find out more from our expert contributors in their public blogs and tweets. Youll find all the right addresses alongside each expert contribution.
CORE BANKING
Out with Rip and Replace, in with componentization. Driven by the need for more flexible technology that can keep pace, banks are focusing ever closer on the customer experience, predictive analytics and mobile.
CORE BANKING
Daniel Latimore
Senior Vice President, Celent
The concept of Rip and Replace, if not dead, is in critical condition. Vendors who are open to interoperability will have a leg up in 2014.
Vendors continue to expand the definition of whats truly core, moving it beyond traditional deposit and lending functionality. Many are building components theyre happy to have interact with other vendors legacy cores theyre betting that once bank customers get even a small taste of new functionality, their appetite will be whetted and more business will follow. The concept of Rip and Replace, if not dead, is in critical condition. As more vendors seek to promote piecemeal transformation, rather than big bang, the alternatives for core replacement will look much more palatable. Vendors who are open to interoperability will have a leg up in 2014.
CORE BANKING
Christine Barry
Research Director, Aite Group
The overarching theme is the need to focus much more on the customer and the customer experience. This drives the move to componentization and the app store.
The app store concept is also taking off more. Using this technology, banks and credit unions can release enhancements faster, make these available for others to download from the app store and were also seeing institutions joining forces.
CORE BANKING
Daniel Mayo
Practice Leader, Ovum
Were seeing lots of investment in user experience which hasnt previously been a key component within core banking. As users experience the tablet approach in other areas, core banking systems need to keep pace.
digital channels. There will also be more advances in the area of personal financial management. Sentiment analysis, providing an insight into how customers are feeling, will also start to take off and banks will be able to customize the screen accordingly. Well continue to see a lot of start-up interest in the areas of mobile banking and mobile payments. In terms of analytics and digital marketing, there will be a lot of attention on how consumer data can be used in a way that doesnt violate privacy, but benefits both the bank and consumer, including the integration of data with online channels.
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CAPITAL MARKETS
The pace of technology-led innovation remains unabated. Market microstructures are being transformed. Markets are becoming ever more interconnected. This leads to opportunity, a need for efficiencies and a competitive landscape.
CAPITAL MARKETS
David Easthope
Senior Vice President, Celent
The SEF explosion has yet to fully materialize. While these platforms offer new and interesting protocols, so far it has been the usual faces.
or being launched which enable investors to search, inquire, match and trade across the private capital markets sphere. Products supported include fixed income, structured products, hedge funds and other institutional investments, private placements and other less liquid securities in the marketplace. Much of this private capital markets industry is supported by less advanced technology than you might suspect. But rather these firms are leveraging innovative data and analytics and basic Web 2.0 technologies to support their emerging business models.
CAPITAL MARKETS
One of the most fascinating changes over the last decade has been the transformation of the exchange competitive landscape.
Global capital markets have seen significant changes over the last 15 years. The advent and adoption of innovative technologies has made exchange-traded markets more transparent than ever before and substantially lowered the barrier to market entry. Along the way, electronic trading has become a competitive requirement and marketplace automation has created high levels of efficiency while eliminating many jobs. One of the most fascinating changes over the last decade has been the transformation of the exchange competitive landscape. The process of demutualization essentially altered exchange DNA, transforming them from member-owned to profit-maximizing entities increasingly coming into conflict with their former members.
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CRYPTOCURRENCY
A signal for change or a currency for the dark net? Surely an opportunity to decentralize payments control. Trust, transparency and security will need to evolve but there are ways to do this without necessarily sacrificing anonymity.
CRYPTOCURRENCY
David Birch
Global Ambassador, Consult Hyperion
The media interest is about the appearance of an alternative to the state-issued, interestbearing fiat currency money system. Is Bitcoin really the currency of the future, then, or a signal for change?
Since this limestone was not available on Yap, the supply was limited. From time to time, the tribal chiefs would organize expeditions to these distant islands to quarry and bring back new stones carved into disks. The disks were of various sizes, some only a few inches across and weighing a pound or two, while others could be 12 feet across and weigh thousands of pounds.
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CRYPTOCURRENCY
As in the case of the stones, if I send you my Bitcoin, the coin isnt really going anywhere. After all, all Im doing is sending you a copy of the numbers that I found and what we are really doing is just telling everybody else that the coin now belongs to you and not to me. Mining Bitcoins In Bitcoin, the record of ownership is a distributed transaction ledger known as the block chain. In essence, when I give you a Bitcoin the record of that transaction is copied out to all of the other users so that everyone now knows that the coin belongs to you. Because of the particular mathematical properties of the numbers used in the Bitcoin system there is a finite supply (21 million) of these numbers and once they are all discovered no more can ever be minted. So why the media interest? I think it points to something more interesting than Bitcoin itself, which is recognition that there is a latent demand for change. The media interest is about the appearance of an alternative to the state-issued, interest-bearing fiat currency money system. Is Bitcoin really the currency of the future, then, or a signal for change?
Im sure its the latter, because the interesting thing about Bitcoin is in my opinion, and for that matter in other peoples opinion, the technology of maintaining the open and distributed ledger and the use of cryptographic proof of work. But this is technical and complicated and as a consequence, its boring to journalists and no one understands it.
The media interest is about the appearance of an alternative to the state-issued, interest-bearing fiat currency money system.
The only interesting thing about Bitcoin, if you dont understand the technology, is the currency which has a wonderful creation myth and a devoted following who display a fervour that is extraordinary. Hence the tremendous media focus on the wrong thing.
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CRYPTOCURRENCY
The global remittance market is vulnerable to disruption due to high fees, inconvenience and lack of flexibility. Cryptocurrencies and mobile payment systems, having begun to merge their functions, are proving to be a significant threat.
2013 was the year of surveillance and evasion, identity and anonymity. Companies are moving quickly to disrupt long established financial systems. Crytocurrencies are the most unique of these new systems, with Bitcoin the standard bearing pioneer. Not based upon anything more than faith and a unique cryptographic approach, Bitcoins are enabling new relationships and conduits for global payments and financial transfers both criminal and legitimate. Silk Road is the most well-known of the criminal markets on the Shadow Internet of Tor, but is far from the only one. It is a mistake to write off Bitcoin as being for criminals only. The global remittance market, worth more than $500 billion globally, is vulnerable to disruption
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CRYPTOCURRENCY
Zennon Kapron
Founder, KapronAsia
With the worlds biggest Bitcoin exchange and increasing popularity, China had little choice but to weigh in on the matter and in early December announced that Bitcoin was not a currency.
Will the sequel to 2013 be as exciting? Will Xi Jingping continue to push reforms? Can the Peoples Bank of China accept Bitcoin as a legitimate currency? Whatever happens, 2014 will be another dynamic year for Chinese markets and well be here every step of the way to help you understand whats happening.
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CRYPTOCURRENCY
Julie Conroy
Research Director, Aite Group
The Silk Road bust could have a silver lining for proponents of bringing Bitcoin mainstream: it showed that even when anonymity prevails, cryptocurrencies leave a traceable electronic transaction stream.
The anonymity that the currencies facilitate and their position outside of sovereign oversight have made the erstwhile Liberty Reserve, WebMoney and Bitcoin the currencies of choice in the cybercriminal underground. The early October FBI bust of Silk Road netted more than US$3 million in confiscated Bitcoins. The bust, while serving to reinforce the negative reputation of digital currencies, could have a silver lining for proponents of bringing Bitcoin mainstream.
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CRYPTOCURRENCY
Gilles Ubaghs
Senior Analyst, Ovum
Smaller innovators are the ones bubbling up now with the potential to decentralize payments control and open up the market considerably.
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Spending on legal entity data didnt really happen. It was a bit of a flop and it hasnt made as much impact as everyone thought it would.
Throughout 2013 there have been a number of basic improvements to the way many FIs are managing data. This relates more to the manner in which firms approach data management rather than underlying technology improvements. Overall, there has been an increased emphasis on data governance with a focus on better supporting the business user. Firms have realized they should be more realistic in setting targets by identifying key data assets to the business and for regulatory reporting purposes. There has been an increasing amount of hype around managed services and utilities. Its still early days: firms may be on board with the idea of industrializing some of their own processes within a private cloud, but the concept of multi-tenant utilities is still a little far out there for many.
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Ben Keeler
Director of Practice Development, Citisoft
We dont see 2014 as the year Big Data arrives on the buyside but we do see managers leveraging tools born out of the Big Data movement.
Big Data receives a lot of media attention outside of our industry, but has yet to receive broad adoption within it. We dont see 2014 as the year big data arrives on the buy-side but we do see managers leveraging tools born out of the big data movement. Technologies like Hadoop were created to support big data concepts and allow for better handling of large, structured and unstructured data sets. Investment managers will actively be
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BANK MARKETING
Understanding the opportunity is crucial. Mobile marketing has yet to fully deliver. Poised in the wings is analytics, giving marketers a better understanding of customers. But how can firms truly combine analytics and Big Data?
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BANK MARKETING
Probably the most under developed technology is mobile marketing. The challenge is to make it non-intrusive, make it innovative and make it more engagement marketing.
There is a clear shift in bank marketing from the physical to digital world. 2014 will see a focus on the allocation of IT dollars. Banks arent getting access to certain information and theres been an explosion towards Big Data technologies. Zion Bank in the US is one to watch they are using Big Data tools for fraud prevention, leveraging this analytics for marketing. Banks are reaching a certain stage on the technology level and enhancing marketing analytics is next. Marketing people either have access to data they didnt have before or can get it easily with new tools that understand customer behavior better. One of the biggest innovations is combining data from different silos and leveraging Big Data analytics to get insights that were hard to achieve before. This analytical infrastructure is not simple to build.
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BANK MARKETING
Michael Araneta
Consulting and Research Director, IDC Financial Insights
We believe that by 2020 most of the largest banking institutions in Asia will have Big Data analytics capabilities.
Some organizations still have unresolved challenges in their traditional data infrastructures and the industry now realizes they need to take a measured, pragmatic approach to Big Data. The best approach might be to take a step back and first address fundamental data challenges. Indeed, projects that touch on traditional datasets and fit neatly into traditional relational database architectures could give banks benefits that are just as compelling. Leading financial institutions are decisively bringing Big Data tools into their innovation sandbox, finding use cases in pricing, fraud, AML and payments analytics. We found that more than half of the use cases for Big Data
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INSURANCE
Barriers such as risk-averse leadership and limited IT talent are hampering the technology mojo of the insurance sector. Interesting opportunities are about though: usage-based insurance, wearable devices and gamification to name a few.
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INSURANCE
My sincere hope is that insurers give serious thought to the fundamentals of their businesses. This is essential if we expect meaningful change to occur.
There are several clear consensus picks for 2014. Mobility, Big Data, cloud computing and core systems renewal still top out most lists, and I agree they have tons of unrealized potential. But werent we talking about these same themes one or two years ago? Leadership teams tend to blame the lack of progress on the immaturity of available tools. On the complexities of technology environments. On regulatory and budget constraints. Or on the perception that the maturity is somehow (perpetually?) right around the corner and so a wait-and-see posture is a smart choice. But something always gets in the way of that fast follower strategy. Incredibly, the sea of cubes that was the insurance office in 1994 has not changed all that much in the past 20 years. In some cases, the same people are sitting in the same desks, doing the same
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INSURANCE
Donald Light
Director, Americas Property/ Casualty Practice, Celent
Simple mechanisms deliver a needed boost to the technology mojo of participating insurers while providing much sought after convenience.
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INSURANCE
Pat Speer
Property and Casualty Insurance, Aite Group
More than 200 active solution providers of usagebased insurance technologies are currently honing their offerings. Adoption in the US is on the rise.
talent will comprise existing IT company professionals, yet 48 percent of the entire insurance workforce will retire in the next 15 years, according to the Bureau of Labor statistics. Secondly the Federal Insurance Offices longawaited report has been published, calling for uniformity in regulatory oversight for the industry. This call to action sends a message to the industry that further and more stringent regulatory attention will be paid to insurers. It also sends a message to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, which argues that the states have ultimate responsibility for implementing regulatory changes. This heated debate will continue, with insurers forced to prepare for changes at both the Federal and state levels.
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PAYMENTS
Real-time payments will still be hot in 2014 and regulatory burdens will not wane. Joining the melee will be analytics, biometrics and product integration. Mobile payments and NFC still have to live up to the hype.
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PAYMENTS
Gareth Lodge
Senior Analyst, Celent
For many, the question around real-time has moved from an if to when to adopt, with the recent consultation in the US being just one example.
There are also many myths surrounding the topic. A key one being that there are only a handful of systems globally. The reality is that there are many countries that already have such systems or are committed to building such solutions. Using our criteria, we found over 35 systems without much trouble.
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PAYMENTS
Gilles Ubaghs
Senior Analyst, Ovum
In 2014 analytics is an area where payments really has the potential to blossom.
2013 was also a good year for Google Wallet, as it seems to have come back from the brink largely by shifting to a more remote payment, cloud based focus rather than on a purely NFC based model. It was also a very good year for the newer online payment gateways, notably Stripe and Braintree. Although not front and centre of the payments experience these companies help to enable payments on apps and online in a seamless and great experience sort of way. The brand connection is non-existent, but so what? If they can really grow overall transaction volumes and values, there are lessons there for the big players.
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PAYMENTS
Leo Lipis
Managing Director, Lipis & Lipis
The big miss of 2013 was mobile payments; it hasnt lived up to the hype in Europe and North America. There have been lots of announcements but nothing has really been achieved.
achieved. There are targeted solutions but these are not scalable. Also no-one has solved the problem of ubiquity. Using different phones, paying any person, is not as readily available as the choices we have. Its about unifying the competing products so you can be sure that the solution you choose to use is a solution that others are willing to accept. We will continue to witness innovation from startups in mobile payments in 2014 its a bit like fruit flies, they multiply quickly.
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PAYMENTS
Thomas Zink
Research Manager, IDC Financial Insights
Expanding the forecast to 2020, I have doubts whether there will be a need for proximity payments in the first place.
Under pressure to offer a richer value proposition than cards, new functionalities such as coupon management, ticketing, event and location based marketing have emerged. But a wallet application that can deliver all these with a simple, uncluttered and fast user experience is a long way off. To really succeed, mobile NFC not only needs to beat cards, but to develop a value proposition thats more convenient and simpler than cash.
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PAYMENTS
Amy Hoke
Director, Commercial and Enterprise Payments Advisory Service, Mercator Advisory Group
Firms will also face innovation challenges, the ability to innovate fast enough.
as consumer applications. We also expect to see partnerships coming into play as this makes innovation cheaper to buy. We are also hoping to see more customer relevancy in cash management products. Weve witnessed more industry vertical solutions throughout 2013 and expect to see more. The big thing for everyone is EMV in the US and meeting the 2015 deadline, this will have a huge impact in terms of cost.
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RETAIL BANKING
The end of the road for NFC and Big Data is still to take off: yet retail banking remains an innovation hotbed. Tokenization, mobile location awareness, intelligent ATMs, social credit models and what about apps for Google glasses?
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RETAIL BANKING
Zilvinas Bareisis
Senior Analyst, Celent
Stephen Greer
Analyst, Celent
With the onset of EMV cards, much of the fraud is moving to CNP transactions, and tokenization might be a way to offer some relief.
Social cold Social media will remain cold in 2014. It is one of the most talked about subjects but still very immature. Banks are having a hard enough time managing basic social media interactions and security threats and many have expressed concern that angry customers are more likely to post comments than satisfied customers. Just #AskJPMC. The list of companies that have had their Twitter accounts hacked is almost endless, and the aftermath may put into question doing more than simple customer support and PR.
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RETAIL BANKING
Account scraping technology enables a site to see all of the bank accounts, utilities, bills etc that someone has all in one place. This is the sort of thing that risks intermediating the banks.
as well as European banks. Were also seeing increased use of tablets for banking. Everyone has a smartphone app but there is little tailoring of online servicing for tablets. Consumers use tablets in different ways to a smartphone and often have longer sessions of usage with a tablet. Banks have yet to take advantage of this. Tablet take-off In the retail banking space tablets will take off. Some banks view this as just another channel and another cost. Where banks have worked on a tablet app with responsive design, you get an uptick in activity through cross selling. Part of the issue is to understand how customers are interacting. For example if an application is started online and completed in the branch, credit for the sale typically goes to the branch and isnt given to the originating channel. Another trend we saw this year is that banks are releasing data sets via APIs to external providers. External technology vendors and start-ups are able to build apps on top of this to provide new services to meet consumer demands.
Tim Walker
Partner, Deloitte
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Lucian Morris
Director, Deloitte
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Engagement Manager, Deloitte
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Theres also been noise around social credit models with firms such as Kreditech, Neo Finance and Lenddo that are generating credit scores using social data. The advancement of computer processing capability, improvements in analytical software, reduction in the cost of storage combined with the widespread adoption of social media have facilitated this. People can get their credit score very quickly. Kreditech uses up to 8,000 data points to map social networks and transactional data to determine someones credit score. One area we hoped would be big last year was digital loyalty schemes. We still have hopes for it this year as there is a wealth of data held by banks and credit cards. What we anticipate here is the creation of a Nectar-type scheme in banking extending beyond financial services products. Account scraping In the past, weve seen one of the price comparison websites investing in account scraping technology. This concept would enable the site to see all of the bank accounts, utilities, bills etc that someone has all in one place. It would be interesting to see how they would be able to mine the data and offer you a better product based on your history. This is the sort of thing that risks intermediating the banks and were surprised no one has actually done this yet. This would put the customer at the center of which suppliers they want to deal with, which ones they want to avoid. It enables more control over the relationship and establishes a trusted point of presence on the internet.
Social credit models are generating credit scores using social data. The advancement of computer processing capability and improvements in analytical software means people can get their credit score very quickly.
Data visualization with the next generation of Personal Finance Management (PFM) on tablets is also an area to watch. We could see a better use of payment utility calendars to understand when payments are due. It could give customers a predictive view of spending in the next three months. Online appointments Were also surprised that online appointment booking has yet to take off in the UK as its been quite popular in other countries. This is one area where wed like to see improvements. The first Google Glass will be rolled out next year. Banks globally have talked about bringing out an app. It will be interesting to see if this is something to watch and whether or not it will gain wider adoption.
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RISK MANAGEMENT
The regulatory environment remains an opportunity for innovation, particularly around data silos and Big Data technologies. Other interesting areas still waiting in the wings are real-time technology, CaaS and complete analytical tools.
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Peyman Mestchian
Managing Partner, Chartis Research
Most FIs are still very much grappling with the basics of risk data integration, risk data quality/governance and defining the basic workflows and reporting requirements.
Regulation, regulation The biggest headaches for FIs in 2014 are of no surprise. Regulation, regulation and regulation and data, data and data! We also anticipate it as the year of the beginning of the end for traditional silo-based risk management, now more than ever, everything needs to become enterprise-wide i.e. connecting the dots.
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Calculating risk management efficiency is very complex. The sheer number of variables makes it difficult to achieve accurate optimization on a real time basis.
Financial services regulation is becoming ever so burdensome. The mass of regulation is at an all-time high. Faith in the financial industry is at an all-time low. Overall, the effect of economic deterioration, reputational issues and regulation related to liquidity, funding and capital are continuing to cause a reduction in risk-taking in the regulated banking sector. Additionally, the balance sheet is shrinking. We expect the changing dynamics within the sector will have knock on effects, with new entrants (such as insurers, hedge funds and asset managers) stepping into areas where banks are retreating e.g. structured finance, structured investments and other specialized lending activities. Elaborating a bit on capital constraints, cheap funding is not as readily available as before. Central clearing will also require more collateral and capital to be posted. Expenditures to
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TRADE EXECUTION
Electronification of the swaps market has created a technology innovation opportunity like never before and a blank canvas waits. Additionally, InfoSec now goes beyond internal considerations and US firms need to play catch up with their global brethren.
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Kevin McPartland
Head of Market Structure Research, Greenwich Associates
Consider the complexity of the products, annual turnover in the hundreds of trillions and regulatory complexity the SEFs that will be there on day one are nothing short of technology marvels.
2013 will forever be known as the year of mandatory clearing. Once ignored as boring back-office stuff, all things clearing were front and center as swaps went from a ten day to a ten second clearing cycle literally. Buy side, sell side, affirmation platforms, clearing houses and swap data repositories all played a part in making this huge transformation happen. Not only was an entire market infrastructure built from scratch, but the technologists at the wheel faced immeasurable scope creep created by constant regulator driven changes. Despite these challenges, all of the hard work paid off with swaps clearing quickly approaching business as usual status.
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use of and tout encryption, but most also retain the keys. Some providers are now explicitly requiring customers to hold and be responsible for their own keys. Even if a provider is subpoenaed or issued a warrant for their customers data, without holding the encryption keys theyll be unable to respond and the customer itself will have to be served. Another solution for US third-party datacenters is restoring real property rights to customers via condominium space rather than leased.
David B. Weiss
Senior Analyst, Aite Group
As much as any financial firm is institutionally opposed to disclosing their private information, far worse for it to occur without their knowledge, let alone control. This scenario is not only possible but inevitable when private enterprise access and data is available beyond the real property of the enterprise. Non-US financial firms now have trust issues with US partners as a result of US government surveillance becoming public. Whats a CIO, CTO, or provider to do? One immediate solution is better and more thorough use of encryption, particularly with customers exclusively holding the encryption keys. Many providers make
As much as any financial firm is institutionally opposed to disclosing their private information, far worse for it to occur without their knowledge, let alone control.
2014 will mark the year when US financial firms InfoSec concerns catch up with their global brethren. CIOs, CTOs and General Counsels will start to pay more attention to the preservation of not just traditional InfoSec inside their own walls but their right to InfoSec control beyond.
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OUTSOURCING
Cloud remains big in outsourcing while the old concerns over control may tempt banks to pull services back in-house. Selling in analytics is a big growth area as is PaaS (Platform as a Service) and service provider portfolio optimization.
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Eike Bieber
Senior Consultant Financial Services, Marketing Consulting, Pierre Audoin Consultants
Cloud computing is at the heart of innovative IT since it provides the required agility and speed to implement new applications and business models.
Cloud computing is also at the heart of innovative IT since it provides the required agility and speed to implement new applications and business models, mainly linked with the increasing digitization of the economy. We should also watch out for innovations in the digital space. Today, digital is quite often associated with customer-facing processes e.g. in Marketing/CRM. However, digital generates many more opportunities e.g. M2M for ATM management.
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Peter Bendor-Samuel
Founder and CEO, Everest Group
One trend for 2014 is the temptation for big banks to start pulling back work because of a discomfort over control.
The biggest headache for financial institutions over the next year will be moving work into their own facilities from outsourcing.
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Jimit Arora
Vice President - IT Services, Everest Group
We appear to be entering the start of another five year cycle where GICs come back in favor.
From a sourcing model perspective we are witnessing a marginal shift in preference towards selective rebalancing of portfolios across third-party providers and Global In-house Centers (GIC) for large FIs. In the aftermath of the economic crisis, we saw some GIC divestitures. We are entering the start of another five-year cycle where GICs come back in favor. The focus is not on taking outsourced operations back in-house but reexamining where the expertise resides. With technology being seen as a source of differentiation, the desire is to have greater control over the resources, and hence the resurgence of GICs.
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Sally Yates
Head of Influence, Metia
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