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    We are techno-functional domain experts, which means our clients achieve exceptional results and our employees get an opportunity to work on innovative projects. We are focused on agile and excellent delivery and delivered through our Digital, Consulting, and Technology teams as well as industry-leading partnerships.

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    Advances in Machine Learning for Quantitative Analysis

    Data is the fuel of Machine Learning

    The next steps for technology in Insurance

    Synechron’s InsurTech Accelerator Program

    Moving Past the Blockchain Hype: Overcoming Challenges to reach Production

    Evolving solutions from POCs to pilots to achieve real business value

    How the Design Industry Has Matured Beyond Graphic Design

    Interactivity today is not just demanded, but expected.

    Consider UX Designer as your next goal

    UX and UI is set to rule the era of applications

    Top 5 FinTech Trends for 2019

    Trends for FinTech in 2019

    Sustainable Finance

    Integration of the sustainability considerations into financial policy frameworks in the EU

    What financial institutions can learn from the Ethereum Parity Hack?

    Vulnerabilities and risks associated with emerging technologies

    A Perfect Storm for Wealth Management

    The perfect time for the Wealth Management sector

    Will Distributed Ledger Technology Transform Transaction Reporting?

    Transaction Reporting and Distributed Ledger Technology

    Digital

    DevOps - A Foundational Building Block of Digital Transformation

    Developing a culture of cross team collaboration to solve complex business problems.

    Guide to Digital Assurance

    Setting up a clearer path towards definitive Digital Transformation

    Digital Strategies and Transformation 2019 and beyond: Methodologies and Practical Approaches

    Digital Strategy Transformation Roadmap 2019: Bank, Asset Management, Insurance Company Approaches

    A First Principle Design Thinking in Financial Services

    The fundamental foundation block for a revolutionary idea

    Architecture Modernization

    A breakthrough towards strategic evolution

    Consider UX Designer as your next goal

    UX and UI is set to rule the era of applications

    How the Design Industry Has Matured Beyond Graphic Design

    Interactivity today is not just demanded, but expected.

    How to use VR, AR and MR to Design Meaningful Experiences in Financial Services

    Bridging the gap between digital and the physical world

    Banking as a Platform

    It’s time for banks to open-up and integrate!!!

    GDPR in need for an effective digital strategy

    GDPR aims for more control of an immense data-driven economy

    Finding balance in designing and implementing an integrated physical and digital experience

    How emerging technologies are redefining user experiences for financial institutions

    Let the Games Begin: Developing a Digital Strategy for Gamification

    Contemplation on gamification – the way forward for financial services

    Rethinking Experience Design

    Enabling Innovation through Design Thinking – The Synechron Way

    How to get the most value out of your Digital Assets

    Amalgamation of user experience with business and technology strategy

    What Financial Services Firms Can Learn about UX

    How the Financial Services Industry can be benefitted by UX Design

    The Top 5 Banking Trends for 2017

    “Disruptions” in FinTech show no sign of stopping in 2017

    Design Thinking for Financial Services in the Mobile Age

    Design-Centric approach for Financial Services in the Mobile Age

    Mobile App Development and Design

    Do your developers and designers understand the business of your business?

    Why banks should embrace Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning for their AML Compliance – Quickly and Now

    Detect and prevent money laundering.

    Leveraging AI to Minimize Regulatory Enforcement Action Risk

    The SEC relies more on tracking illicit behavior.

    The Future of Global Payments

    A recent BOA digital payments study that found mobile payments are up 255% in 2016.

    Financial Services for the Millennial Customer

    Rethinking global banking for the debt-heavy, group-thinking millennial generation

    The Mobile-First Strategy

    How Mobile-First is transforming the banker

    The Debate of ‘Digital Only’ Business Model

    Is this the right time?

    Digital Transformation

    The key to your business survival today

    The Era of IoT

    Reinventing the Insurance industry

    Business Consulting

    DARQ Matters: Guide to Marketing Innovation

    A directory towards developing a strong brand voice

    The Importance of Diversity and Inclusion in a Changing Global Workforce

    Pursuing Diversity and inclusion in achieving cultural transformation

    EMIR Refit: the Good, the bad and the ugly

    Exploring the three dimensions of the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation

    Impact of Brexit on EU Anti-Money Laundering efforts

    Strategizing business solutions towards combating Money-Laundering Mafias

    IBOR

    Transitioning towards a water-tight benchmarking

    Using microservices to unbundle software in investment banking

    Implementing microservices for legacy infrastructure

    Regulatory Framework for Supporting Data Science Innovations Within Banks

    Data Governance

    Will Distributed Ledger Technology Transform Transaction Reporting?

    Transaction Reporting and Distributed Ledger Technology

    Sustainable Finance

    Integration of the sustainability considerations into financial policy frameworks in the EU

    Finding your path

    It is okay to fail, and then learn the right moves for your career.

    Financial Crime Monitoring

    Time for a Paradigm Shift through Financial Crime Monitoring

    Data Visualization for Financial Services

    A Pragmatic Approach to Harnessing Business Insight

    Overcoming roadblocks with technology to reach CAT compliance description

    Managing CAT data and reports

    Brexit Relocation: How will plans shift in 2018?

    This article sheds light on a significant debate about the final shape of a post-Brexit arrangement

    Give Me Back My Data

    Sorting out the facts: What exactly is GDPR?

    Why Innovation and Cost Pressure Have Made It the Time for Cloud in Financial Services

    Time for Cloud in Financial Services

    Financial Services Retooling

    Technology untying value chain for financial services

    Assessing the likelihood of ‘Soft Brexit’

    Brexit and the uncertainties

    How Blockchain Would Improve the Mortgage Process

    Blockchain has the potential to transform the entire mortgage financing industry.

    UK to leave Single Market

    Globalization has strengthened London’s position as a global financial hub.

    One API for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Data portability and PSD2 XS2A?

    APIs enable systems to communicate with each other without any human intervention.

    What Blockchain Could Mean for Compliance Professionals

    Blockchain can transform the way banks and corporates address KYC regulation and compliance

    MiFID II/MiFIR: Reporting for Financial Institutions

    Our Regulatory Advisory Service provides a comprehensive review of all the new regulations affecting our clients.

    Why blockchain is not just for banks

    Blockchain enables faster processing of transactions between and within parties.

    Beware 2019: UK Ring-fencing Rules are Coming

    Dealing with Ring-fencing

    Higher Investor Protection Standards Ahead Regardless of DOL Fiduciary Outcome

    Firms would be held accountable by regulators for higher standards of investor protection

    Understanding the Path to Purchase in Financial Services Through Deep Learning

    Leveraging the power of machine learning for consumer behavior.

    LEI Revolution

    Would LEI replace the client code?

    What You Need to Know about PSD2 in 2017

    PSD2 in a nutshell

    Revision of the Dutch Act on financial supervision

    Dutch Ministry of Finance to revise the Act of the Financial Supervision

    MiFiD II/MiFIR: Best Execution

    A Framework for Implementation

    So you want to be a CDO?

    Here’s how you can join the exclusive club of Chief Data Officers (CDOs).

    Next-generation AML

    Eliminating false positives in anomaly detection

    The Effect of Brexit on MiFID

    Key facts and implications

    Anti-money Laundering

    Taking a holistic approach

    Brexit

    The Cost of Relocation

    BCBS 239

    Cutting through complexity and moving forward

    Treasury to expect more from T2S

    Optimizing the secured funding process

    Liquidity Risk Management in Europe

    Baseline Basel III Pillar 2 by Dutch ILAAP

    Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime

    Challenges in 2016

    Solvency II

    A brief introduction

    AIFMD & UCITS

    An overview of the changing scenario

    You are having data issues

    Combating data quality & integration issues

    Risk Management

    Managing intraday liquidity risk

    The Impact of EMIR

    Is your organization ready?

    Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR)

    Balancing transaction transparency & collateral fluidity

    Agile Scrum

    Enabling IT to meet rising business demands

    Technology

    How tech is shaping client prospecting for wealth managers and advisers

    Advancing with tech towards identifying potential clients

    Advances in Machine Learning for Quantitative Analysis

    Data is the fuel of Machine Learning

    Cloud Capabilities

    Aligning the Cloud strategy with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    A First Principle Design Thinking in Financial Services

    A fundamental foundation for a revolutionary idea.

    Accelerating Underwriting Using Data & AI

    AI and Data Science Transforming the Insurance Sector

    Distributed systems and Cloud native approaches

    Distributed systems on the Cloud

    Machine learning for finance

    Tools like machine Learning are starting to find their feet in the financial markets

    Applying technology to Wealth Management’s most persistent problems

    Solving Wealth Management’s Most Complex Business Problems

    What financial institutions can learn from the Ethereum Parity Hack?

    Vulnerabilities and risks associated with emerging technologies

    Top 5 FinTech Trends for 2019

    Trends for FinTech in 2019

    Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality

    : Financial services set to adopt AR and VR for better interactivity

    A Perfect Storm for Wealth Management

    The perfect time for the Wealth Management sector

    Can AI Comply to Transparency Standards?

    Compliance of Artificial Intelligence to Transparency Standards

    Why you should adopt an enterprise SaaS strategy

    Cost pressures, regulatory requirements, and the need to innovate are key drivers for firms deciding to adopt a cloud strategy

    Architecting a Unified Data Platform

    Architecting a Unified Data Platform - Data lake to Analytics

    The BlockChain Progress at Synechron Part-3

    Short-term wins are needed before long-term revolutions

    The BlockChain Progress at Synechron Part-2

    A Use Case with a Business Case

    The BlockChain Progress at Synechron Part-1

    Expectations management is an important journey in enterprise blockchain

    How Regulatory Technology (RegTech) Can Empower Financial Institutions

    This will allow firms to break down regulatory siloes and manage requirements holistically.

    Moving Past the Blockchain Hype: Overcoming Challenges to reach Production

    Evolving solutions from POCs to pilots to achieve real business value

    What to Consider in a Prospective Tech Employer

    Workers must be re-skilled to remain marketable in the tech-heavy future workplace

    SWIFT 2018/2019: Ushering in a Digital Revolution for Trade Finance

    SWIFT is set to have a significant impact on trade finance

    Data Monetization – A Practical Approach to Successfully Navigating Big Data

    Navigating the cost of producing actionable insights in the pursuit of big data monetization

    How Can Innovation Benefit the CFO?

    Is Blockchain the solution to General Ledger Reconciliation?

    Democratization of Advanced Analytics

    Moving Beyond Traditional Business Intelligence Tools

    A New Vision for Data Visualization: Marrying Data Science and User Experience Design

    Leveraging the power of UX.

    Is there a silver bullet for KYC?

    New technology can help to get control over cost and improve workforce efficiency

    Adapting API Management Strategy

    Big data management is an essential part of today’s digital economy

    FRTB – Fundamental Review of the Trading Book Sensitivities-based Method of the Standardised Approach: the step-by-step recipe

    The paramount focus is on the calculation of market risk

    Innovation is anything, but business as usual post Brexit

    A read on how large institutions are revising their organizational structures and business strategy

    Payment Services Directive 2

    New Banking Landscape and Strategic Opportunities

    How Prime Brokers can use Blockchain to transform their Business Models

    How Blockchain is helping in collateral management and real-time credit risk

    Blockchain Path to Production: Why Blockchain Interoperability Needs to be a Key focus for 2018

    Focusing on key Blockchain interoperability strategies for 2018

    The Top 5 Trends in Banking for 2018

    Five top areas that banks can and should focus on in 2018

    Cybersecurity

    Preventing criminal or unauthorized use of electronic data

    Will Regulating RegTech Benefit the UK’s Financial Services Industry in the Long-Term?

    How RegTech is impacting the FinTech space.

    Looking Past the AI Hype: Benefits of Data Science Application in Financial Services

    How AI is making a significant impact.

    The next steps for technology in Insurance

    Synechron’s InsurTech Accelerator Program

    International Payments Eco-systems

    Reduced settlement time and fees for end users is the Blockchain promise

    What financial institutions can learn from the Ethereum Parity Hack?

    Vulnerabilities and risks associated with emerging technologies

    What WannaCry Can Teach Businesses about Legacy Technology

    Vulnerability of legacy systems to cyber-attacks

    NoSQL Data Modelling Techniques

    Different data modeling techniques will help businesses add greater depth to future initiatives.

    The potential overlaps between FRTB and MiFID II

    Complexities that could cause an overlap between MiFID II and FRTB

    The Equivalence Regime and What it Means for Countries outside the EU

    The equivalence regime and its nitty-gritties

    A ‘Smart’ Approach to Blockchain for Collateral Management: Bringing Banks and Blockchain Together

    Automating collateral management through Blockchain

    Get Ahead of the Game and Take a Page from the SEC’s Playbook

    The use of new technologies by regulators

    Look out Fintech: It’s a bumpy but fruitful road ahead

    Are investors running out of patience to see tangible results from fintech?

    The latest developments in the battle against banking fraud

    The fight against banking fraud goes to the next level

    Insurance in the Era of Blockchain

    Metamorphosis of the Insurance Industry through Blockchain

    Market Data Optimisation (MDO)

    The cultural change within large institutions

    Why Patch Management Matters in the Private Cloud

    Patch execution with TDCs and different fundamental components

    Top Insurance Technology Trends

    An era of digitally transformed solutions

    Experts Speak

    Insights on Blockchain

    Experts Speak

    Insights on Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    Blockchain

    The case for banks to love the blockchain – six use cases

    New Age Banking

    The top banking trends in 2016

    Artificial Intelligence

    The robotification of banking: Why AI is really smart

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