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Articles by Rik Coeckelbergs
Why I am considering to leave Medium
This may not be the best title to stimulate the machine promoting my blog, but here we go. Yes, I am considering leaving the platform. Leaving Medium would help focus on less, increasing productivity and avoiding frustration. Most of you see the Medium newsletters with suggestions for new blogs and reading material. Many are about successful writing, tips and tricks to get more out of Medium and how to make a living on the platform.
The Israeli Case for Central Bank Digital Currencies
By Rik Coeckelbergs "We identified six main motivations and a series of secondary motivations to potentially issue a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in Israel. I think neither of those (individual) six could move us from not issuing a CBDC to deciding to issue it. But all of them together may pose the critical mass."
The Future of Finance
By Rik Coeckelbergs On May 4, we invited Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad, Deputy CEO of Bitpanda & CEO of Bitpanda Technology Solutions, a leading European trade-everything platform. The topic of the discussion was "The Future of Finance - Transforming Financial Services", as a teaser for his keynote at The Banking Scene Conference 2023 Brussels.
Today’s challenges and the search for a new ethos
Banks are constantly transforming; we all know that, we all talk about that. The Banking Scene, a community for the industry, sparked much discussion over the past few months about today’s banking challenges and the search for a new ethos in the industry. Our first events this year in Luxembourg and Amsterdam demonstrated that digital transformation and unexpected events affect the industry more than ever and are more fundamental than before.
Three stories, three different triggers to ignite automation in banking
By Rik Coeckelbergs On March 25, we invited three executives with different backgrounds to share their "Automation in Banking" experience. The experts were: Sezgin Lüle, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, İşbank Nicolas Boitout, Head of CoE in "AI, Analytics & Automation" at Société Générale GSC
The rise of the Dragon… or is it a lizard? PSD2 got into force last week
Last week we saw the awakening of the monster called PSD2. Well… did we? Did something revolutionary happen? Did PSD2 hit the headlines? Were consumers quickly adapting their financial behavior? Was there the so long predicted shake-up of the market? Did banks go bankrupt because fintech and Bigtech took over? I may have missed it because I was on holiday, not sure, but as far as I know, nothing happened.
The Open Banking Interviews: Ali Niknam, CEO, bunq
Our first CEO in the Open Banking Interviews is Ali Niknam, a man with a plan. He founded bunq, a Dutch challenger bank, in 2012, and got its banking license in 2015. Ali is an entrepreneur with a technical background. A good example of this is the announcement just last week that bunq is opening an API marketplace to showcase apps built using its own proprietary API. Part VII of The Open Banking Interviews (see part VI, with Raphaël d’Ostuni, Head of Open Banking & Partnerships, Keytrade Bank).
The Open Banking Interviews: Daniel Van Delft, Country Manager Visa, Netherlands
At Money2020, in Amsterdam, I had the pleasure to talk to Daniel Van Delft, Country Manager of Visa in the Netherland. We discussed on how Visa Inc. looks at Open Banking and how this may affect the way Visa is changing the way we pay. Part II of The Open Banking Interviews (see part I, with Joris Hensen at Deutsche Bank). Visa recently announcement a couple of new partnerships. Can you tell us a bit more about that?
When your bank realises financial advise is no longer enough
By Rik Coeckelbergs Banks these days are increasingly testing how to grow their value in consumers’ daily life. A few articles in the Belgian press in the last few days showed this once again. It is a process that is ongoing for quite a few years now. A very interesting evolution I must say… Your bank, your security guard KBC started offering anti-virus subscriptions a couple of years ago.
Winning PSD2: Amazon, the Chinese, or just your own familiar bank?
By Rik Coeckelbergs, 27/02/2019 PSD2, the new regulation that will open up retail banking… another regulation that triggers very little attention of the average man/woman on the street. Consumers start getting aware of the front-end consequences, but slowly… thus far, only 3 Belgian banks are publicly anticipating on PSD2: KBC: they set up account aggregation a year ago, based on web scraping. Unfortunately, the customer experience is pretty poor.
15 years to rediscuss the gentlemen’s agreement on 24 free cash withdrawals
By Rik Coeckelbergs Dear journalists, dear Test Aankoop, dear politicians, Last weeks there were 2 news items worth discussing: Belfius has its API marketplace made public.
Instant Payments, Instant Revenues... it's complicated
Instant Payments — Instant Revenues? #itscomplicated By Rik Coeckelbergs Instant Payments generate a lot of buzz in the industry of payments, for years already. Everyone likes to have their opinion heard on it: Banks, Central Banks, Software Providers, Consultants… all talk about Instant Payments. Instant Payments is needed, you hear, otherwise Bigtech or Fintech will take over. The banks are more hesitant.
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