Akber Jaffer Replaces Haytham Kaddoura as CEO SmartStream, the post-trade operations solutions provider, has appointed Akber Jaffer as its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective September 19. Jaffer replaces Haytham Kaddoura, who has stepped down from the CEO post. Kaddoura will join SmartStream’s board. Jaffer has “spent several years immersed in both start-up and scaled… Read More >>
SWIFT & Capgemini Explore ‘Disruptive’ CBDCs: Q&A
(Unregulated cryptocurrency markets are crashing and financial market participants are looking toward regulation and particularly the establishment of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Digital currencies controlled by central banks hold the promise of new protections for crypto-, tokenized, and other digital assets, Last month, officials at the SWIFT financial services messaging and systems cooperative and… Read More >>
Wall Street Mulls Potential of ‘Intelligent Automation’
So-called “intelligent automation” could add $512 billion to the global revenues of financial services firms by 2020. That’s the bullish prediction from Capgemini, a French multinational professional services and business consulting corporation that characterizes itself as a “multicultural company of 200,000 team members in over 40 countries,” with a half-century-long history. Its internal Digital Transformation… Read More >>
