Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Banking

  • The second in a series of talking heads with Richard Ells, CEO of Electroneum. Richard sat down with Graham Jarvis to discuss Electroneum, blockchain and the future of cryptocurrency. In this second part he outlines the difference in Electroneum’s strategy and what we hope to achieve. First broadcast on YouTube and on Electroneum's website on…

  • In the first in a series of talking heads, Richard sat down with Graham Jarvis to discuss Electroneum, blockchain and the future of cryptocurrency. In this first part he outlines the concept behind the mobile miner and what impact it could have. Watch the interview to find out more. Broadcast on 2nd February 2018. 

  • There is a misconception about blockchain in the industry surrounding the belief that it is a solution to making faster and securer payments. There are some issues around the blockchain that explain why, in its present form, it isn’t an ideal replacement.

  • …Compliance is relatively free compared to the costs of non-compliance, but organisations may still find that they may need to invest in new technologies to enable them to comply with GDPR. Even so, the costs of investing in new technologies are relatively not that big compared to the potential costs of non-compliance. Lars Davies, CEO of Kalypton,…

  • Looming on the horizon for failing to comply is a dark cloud of significant financial penalties. “…Even if a blockchain or DLT-based system could ensure that data is kept private, and it is doubtful whether such a system can do so as they rely on any participant being able to validate any previous transaction in…

  • Data privacy is driving the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) in the UK, and yet it’s widely felt that banks and other financial services institutions have run out of time to find ways to comply with the requirements. Looming on the horizon for failing to comply is a dark cloud of significant financial…

  • One large global banking firm wanted the ability to back up, restore and recover their data from their datacentres. It thought it had to build another datacentre – not too close, not too far away from its existing datacentre. The thing is this company probably has the facilities it needs on site already. It shouldn’t…

  • “By January 2018 banks must comply with the EU’s second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), intended to improve online payment protection, encourage payment services innovation, and make cross-border payments safer. We’re finally entering the modern age of payments and it’s happening because the regulators are forcing digital transformation through changes such as PSD2, which affects every…

  • With big data comes one particular challenge that can put the spanner in the works: data and network latency, which can slow down your networks and render your big data analysis inaccurate and useless.To be a true data leader therefore requires the ability to recognise when you need data acceleration tools that use machine learning…

  • Simon French, Panmure Gordon’s chief economist, describes the repeal of Dodd Frank as beggar-thy-neighbour economics because the relaxing of Dodd Frank would only benefit the US at the expense of other countries. He argues that it means that British and European banks have to face the prospect that their marginal costs will increase if they…