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I feel your pain. My bracket got busted as well. We join with 8m others who watched a 16 seed beat a number 1 seed. As a college athlete I remember sitting in the film room my freshman year and asking the question of why we were watching film for six hours when we could have been on the court practi…

It’s that time of the year again.  The annual month where suddenly everyone is a college basketball expert; March Madness.  This past weekend, I found myself glued to my television set watching as teams played one another hoping for the win and their chance to enter the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournam…

In two weeks, 11,000 of the world’s most prominent financial services professionals from 4,500 banks, fintech companies, insurance and wealth management firms will attend Money2020 in Las Vegas to discuss topics like digitization, blockchain, open banking, regtech, customer experience, Internet of T…

“This is a stickup! Give me all your bitcoins!” Those words may not seem as terrifying as the shouts and gunshots of infamous bank robbers Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid sounded to bankers in the early 1900s. But they would quickly create a crippling panic if you saw them flash across your scre…

Miraculously, I lived through my entire undergraduate experience without a cell phone or a laptop*. I kept quarters in my purse in case I had to stop to use the phone and signed up for my first email address right before I graduated. Google was new and had not released their IPO. To write a research…

I don’t know about you, but everyone seems to be talking analytics – it is another great digital transformation buzzword. Most of the time in financial services, analytics means customer analytics – how we can combine structured data within the bank with the world of big data to give us amazingly ne…

  In established companies, people are the biggest cost—as well as the biggest asset. As banks compete for the best talent, many are realizing they need to re-examine the fundamentals of how they operate. Even traditional financial institutions built on top-down process and authority are lookin…

Today the world is still reeling from the global mayhem created by yet another ransomware attack – the bigger, more ruthless brother of the WannaCry attack that took place only six weeks ago. The ransomware has been referred to as Petya, NotPetya, Petrwrap, and GoldenEye. Cisco’s Talos Threat Intell…

Disruption.  Transformation.  Digitization.  Change….  The speed at which new developments are occurring in technology is incessant, and it is not a stretch to say; no industry is experiencing a more significant reinvention than financial services. Every aspect of this expansive industry is undergoi…