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Archive for Category: In the News

Nov 2, 2016

Hitting the mark – it’s all about trust

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“Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity…” In the mergers and acquisitions world in which we live, there is a longstanding syllogism among some that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. This philosophy is not limited to those in m&a. In “The Tempest” Shakespeare has a character remark that “what’s past is prologue”, and we know many people who subscribe to that theory when evaluating business opportunities. We, however, prefer to rely on Peter Drucker – who once said “strategic planning is the…

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Nov 1, 2016

Zcash – friend or foe?

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ZCash is a new virtual currency that the NYTimes wrote about, here, yesterday. Like Bitcoin, Litecoin, Peercoin and most others, it will facilitate fast, low cost anonymous electronic transfers of money. But unlike most others there is no public ledger that can be used to trace transactions – ZCash is designed to be confirmable as authentic but not traceable. The backers would have us believe this is all about privacy concerns; I have a bridge to sell to anyone who honestly believes that the bulk of users will be law-abiding citizens. Regardless of intent, ZCash will mostly be used by…

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Oct 31, 2016

Can Blockchains save our healthcare system? Our October 2016 HIT Market Update

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Dear Clients and Friends, Click HERE for the October 2016 Healthcare IT Review. In the early 1980’s, corporate executives at IBM and AT&T predicted that global demand for personal computers would top 1,000 units and there will only be 2,000 subscribers for wireless phones. The world is a different place now. And yet, we hear echoes from the past where sceptics in our industry say change will come slowly and incrementally, if at all. Healthcare, they claim, is different and it would be difficult to make sweeping changes to the industry quickly. But the reality is different. Not only is change…

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Oct 3, 2016

New Banking Technology is Leveling the Playing Field In Retail Banking

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There has been no shortage of “FinTech” disruption throughout the past decade. For some it has been like riding a wild tiger – trying to hang on. For others it’s been about avoiding being devoured. But this tiger – digital banking innovation – is starting to pop up in an unexpected place – small banks and credit unions. This lower-end segment of the banking industry, typically defined as banks with less than $10 billion in assets, has consolidated in the past 20 years. The smallest of banks, those with assets less than $100 million, have been particularly hard hit as…

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Sep 12, 2016

Banks are under pressure, is there any hope?

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Banks have long been an important and trusted pillar of the economy; from saving to lending, underwriting to trading, banks are a necessity for consumers and businesses. But, following the fallout from the recent financial crisis (nearly 10 years ago), banks have struggled, with increasing and ambiguous regulations, record low interest rates, slower global growth and higher scrutiny. Enter the latest wave of Fintech. Fintech is nothing new, with electronic trading, online brokerage, ecommerce and electronic payments well integrated into the financial ecosystems, but this time feels different. Launching a disruptive Fintech company has never been easier, with public cloud…

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