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Banking incumbents and their fintech play.

#data #banking #cbinsights #fintech #investments

A few years ago, Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s leaders took a hard look at how the bank carries out initial public offerings. They mapped 127 steps in every deal, then set out to see how many could be done by computers instead of people.

See too CB Insight’s teardown on Goldman Sach’s strategy.

Interesting pointers:

46% of all Goldman hiring opportunities are in technology

The bank will work on revenues from the Fixed Income, Currency & Commodity sector

Launched Marcus, which is in the digital finance space on loan originations

From inception to launch, Marcus took just 12 months, utilizing existing platforms, open source software, and external APIs including FICO, Twilio, Facebook and Adobe.

Automating IPOs is the brandchild of banker George Lee who is focused on two key goals: digitizing bankers’ workflow and using technology to enhance their advice to clients

GS’ IPOs is a 127 step process and half of which is now automated.

#business #tech #finance #investment

Cloud Expo Asia 2017

Interesting pointers from the conference:

Marshall Van Alstyne: Platform Revolution

Jeff Bezos’ API Mandate

Reading for APIs: see Deloitte’s article, a blog writeup on the API Mandate and Mckinsey’s What It Really Takes to Capture APIs

Google Cloud’s Chee Keong: Traditional business model don’t work anymore. Products have a hard time against platform. Always think platform, always think APIs

E.g. of incumbent companies going platform: Walgreen’s Photoprint service and how it expanded usage by opening up its API with photo centric channels like Instagram.

The traditional product waterfall cycle of 12-18 months is too long. Now replaced by devops and agility, where you have multiple iteration and each cycle is 2-3 months long.

#tech #technology #APIs #platform #business

Moving Ahead.

“Invention”, says Jassy, “requires two things: 1. The ability to try a lot of experiments, and 2. not having to live with the collateral damage of failed experiments.” Satisfying both criteria, cloud computing has been a perfect breeding ground for invention.

#Cloud #Technology

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