Christian Ball
Christian Ball brings extensive experience to spearhead the GFT Retail offering. Christian joined GFT from Meniga in 2016, one of the top performing FinTech companies in Europe. His previous roles have seen him work with many of the leading banks to shape their digitisation strategies - including positions at Cap Gemini, Fiserv and Accenture, where he led Business Development for Accenture Software globally.
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Open Banking is here to stay!
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28/06/2019
Open banking has not yet completely transformed the banking industry, but it is making steady progress. The latest figures released by the UK’s Open Banking Implementation Entity in March 2019 ...
Open banking: an opportunity to develop an entirely new market for financial products
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19/12/2018
Open banking represents the biggest banking transformation in a generation. Regulatory initiatives, such as ‘PSD2 and Open Banking’ from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) empower customers to share ...
Will 2018 launch a new era for retail banks?
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03/04/2018
Last year, retail banks increasingly debated how they would cope in a post-Payments Service Directive II (PSD2) world. The directive (which came into force on 13th January 2018 in the ...
Open Banking - are you ready?
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01/02/2018
With Open Banking here to stay, it is fast becoming a top priority for financial services organisations that want to stay competitive in terms of innovation and customer offerings. However, ...
Meeting the needs and expectations of the customer is key to digital transformation projects
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21/11/2017
Following the recent release of the GFT Digital Banking Survey 2017, I am delighted to share with you some of the insights from our latest research with respect to our ...
How banks can learn the lessons of BlackBerry
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19/05/2017
There was once a time when the mobile smartphone market was dominated by BlackBerry handsets. In recent years BlackBerry’s sales have plummeted and it seems unlikely they will ever regain ...