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Gaia-X – A Revolution for the Financial Industry?

Posted on 12.11.2021 By Tobias Hackl

Cloud solutions are faster, more flexible and less expensive than on-premise solutions. However, the best-known cloud infrastructures – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and IBM’s Red Hat – all have one thing in common: they are headquartered in the USA and are therefore subject to the (decidedly lax) US data protection “law”. This makes using the services difficult from a data protection perspective, especially for financial institutions. The European Gaia-X project could be a real alternative.

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Sustainable Finance: A Step Toward the Circular Economy

Posted on 18.06.2021 By Stefan Knaus

Sustainability is on everyone’s lips and now impacts all regions and sectors of the global economy. Increasingly, financial industry stakeholders, including customers, investors, suppliers and regulators, expect financial services providers to play an active role in financing the transition from a linear economy to a circular economy. ESG criteria are a tool for companies to become more sustainable and to comply with the regulatory efforts of policymakers and regulators.

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PSD2 as an Enabler for Data-Driven, Intelligent Banking Services

Posted on 12.03.2021 By Benjamin Deubner

Breaking up the value chain in the financial industry has been explicitly promoted and demanded in all states of the European Union since January 13, 2018 by the Payment Services Directive II, or PSD2 for short. PSD2 gives AIS and PIS open access to customer account data and payment behavior via application programming interfaces (APIs). This creates potential for the use of AI technologies.

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Robo-Advisors – Business Models and Strategies

Posted on 24.12.2020 By Konstantin T. von Ehrlich-Treuenstätt

Last week’s post was about how robo advisory services are defined and how they came into being, whether they are serious competition for banks, and what stage of development robo-advisors are at now. Today I present the prevailing business models and strategies of robo-advisors.

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Open Banking Summit 2020 – Opportunities and Implementation Scenarios for Open Banking in Switzerland

Posted on 30.09.2020 By Simon Bleher

Recently, the Swiss Bankers Association published an overview that outlines the status of open banking in Switzerland and formulates requirements for its further development of open banking. These requirements include the clear strategic positioning of Swiss banks and the joint development of standardized APIs for data exchange between financial institutions and third-party providers. The aim of this overview is to “support the dialogue in the financial center”, as Richard Hess writes in the initial contribution to the blog parade of the Swiss Bankers Association. The Open Banking Summit of the standardization initiative OpenBankingProject.ch pursued the same goal on September 10th, with various presentations focusing on these two requirements.

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Reflections on the Future of Swiss Banking

Posted on 17.04.2020 By Daniel Fasnacht

The financial sector is currently facing one of its biggest challenges with the Corona pandemic: A collapse in economic growth, high unemployment, credit defaults and volatile stock markets. Furthermore, the old problems such as pressure on margins, increasingly intense competition, the shift of the customer interface towards innovative fintechs and the ubiquitous digitalization have not yet been solved. These developments challenge traditional business models of local banks, but also offer opportunities for those who are willing to change or reinvent themselves.

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Are we heading for a happy society?

Posted on 05.02.2020 By Hubert Österle

In a few years’ time, new or further developed sensors in smartwatches will not only record the wearer’s movements, but also their heart rhythm and breathing as well as their stress levels via measuring their skin surface tension. Around the world, thousands of developers are working on the new possibilities, hundreds of investors are evaluating the economic potential, and millions of consumers are waiting for the new gadgets. Will intelligent machines such as smartwatches with such capabilities bring us one step closer to a happy society?

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