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We Use Automation For That…

In my blog ‘Access Is Authorised’, I looked at Open Banking and the benefits I believe it’s going to bring to the B2B market.  There is, however, a lot of tech sitting behind that making it effective, robust, and frictionless. Intelligent onboarding has fast become a key requirement to make benefit from Open Banking in […]

Client Onboarding – How (un)-Intelligent Is Your Process?

The challenge sneaks up on you, slowly: A regulatory amendment, expansion into a new jurisdiction or launch of a new product.  A pragmatic workaround is found, maybe some re-keying or an excel sheet to keep track. After a few years of iterative changes and workarounds, you find your organisation in a bit of a mess. […]

Seven Principles For Intelligent Automation Success

Everyone is talking about Intelligent Automation. It’s the current hot trend – the new Digital Transformation. Your business should either be planning it or have a project inflight right now. Intelligent automation is the combination of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, process automation, blockchain and IoT to solve a business problem. […]

psKINETIC Strengthens Their Team

psKINETIC are delighted to welcome David Landi to our expanding team. David has joined as a Client Partner where he is tasked with growing the business within Capital Markets. David brings with him a wealth of knowledge on both the buy and sell-side, working for tier-1 Investment banks, Hedge Funds, consultancy and SAAS/PAAS solution providers. He has a proven success record in […]

Access Is Authorised

In my blog ‘How Would You Like To Pay For That?’, I touched on Open Banking, so I want to take a deeper look at how it is transforming the payments market and how it will develop in the B2B space. As a brief overview for the uninitiated, Open Banking is a system whereby banks […]

Is Salesforce.com Slowing Down Front-to-Back Automation?

Salesforce.com (“SFDC”) is a powerful platform.  However, when it comes to streamlining complex processes to enable automation and improve data, its shortcomings become clear. Below we set out the challenges facing large SFDC clients on the sell-side and buy-side encounter, and how we are using Appian (www.appian.com) as the intelligent glue to ‘tame’ processes ridden […]

Business Banking and Neobanks

Getting into Business Banking Neobanks are best known for consumer banking offerings, however, there is a significant march of digital-first banks moving into business banking, which is not surprising due to the higher value of business customers to standard consumers. Recent studies have shown that 10% of start-up businesses have their main business bank accounts […]

Building a Digital Bank – The Lessons I Learned Part 5

The mission was to launch a new bank in one year. And that mission was completed successfully. This is the last in my series of blog posts on the lessons learned from my experience in a challenging project to launch a digital bank in Australia (from London) within a year. The rest of the series […]

Building a Digital Bank – The Lessons I Learned Part 4

Lifetime Value of The Client This is the fourth blog post in my current series on the lessons learned in launching a digital bank. The previous three are available here; Lesson One: Success is a Mindset Lesson Two: The Extra Mile Lesson Three: First Time Right For those who don’t have time to catch up, […]

Building a Digital Bank – The Lessons I Learned Part 3

Excel is not the answer. In my previous blog posts (Success is a Mindset and The Extra Mile), I share the lessons learned from my experience in a challenging project to launch a digital bank in Australia (from London) within a year. In this post, I discuss spreadsheets and the value of a “First Time […]

Building a Digital Bank – The Lessons I Learned Part 2

You Can’t Fight the Sun In my previous blog post, I outlined my role in an audacious project to build and launch a digital bank within a year, how we achieved it and one of the lessons I learned along the way. (Click here to read; “Lesson One: Success is a Mindset”) Whilst the timeframe […]

Building a Digital Bank – The Lessons I Learned Part 1

The mission was to launch a new bank in one year. From securing funding and getting approval for a banking license, to building the technology and people infrastructures from the ground up, it seemed impossible. That’s what made it so appealing. I was part of the exec team that accepted this challenge in 2019. My […]