Financial Technology Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Financial Technology Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Financial Technology related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Financial Technology specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Financial Technology Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 996 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Financial Technology improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 996 standard requirements:


1. What regulatory barriers or other possible hurdles of different nature impede or prevent cyber threat information sharing among financial services providers and with public authorities?
   
   

2. How do new forms of AI enabled data analytics, pattern recognition, chatbots, natural language processing, and Robotic Process Automation fit within other emerging FinTech trends?
   
   

3. How do you make regulation conducive to FinTech innovation, while still ensuring that the system remains stable, key players are sound, and consumer interests are safeguarded?
   
   

4. Can a headline grabbing new segment of FinTech really deliver everything financial organizations need to leverage leading edge technology to boost compliance capabilities?
   
   

5. How do you perform digital business or administrative transactions in a convenient, secure and seamless manner while maintaining the legal value of transactions?
   
   

6. Has digital disruption in the financial industry created a win win win scenario for consumers, financial service companies and upstart FinTech companies?
   
   

7. What aspects of supervisory models or regulations may need to be revisited or fine tuned in response to changes arising from FinTech developments?
   
   

8. Which specific financial services offered by FinTechs have helped the industry to clear financing barriers for underserved and unbanked customers?
   
   

9. Will the FinTech still be able to operate in the way it used to operate if it needs to be regulated or will regulation affect its business model?
   
   

10. How do you ensure that financial services offered through mobile devices and apps are fair and provide for meaningful consumer decision making?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Financial Technology book in PDF containing 996 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Financial Technology self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Financial Technology Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Financial Technology areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Financial Technology Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Financial Technology projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Financial Technology Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Financial Technology project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Assumption and Constraint Log: Are there processes in place to ensure internal consistency between the source code components?
   
   

2. Human Resource Management Plan: Are Financial Technology project team members involved in detailed estimating and scheduling?
   
   

3. Probability and Impact Matrix: What will be cost of redeployment of the personnel?
   
   

4. Probability and Impact Assessment: Is it necessary to deeply assess all Financial Technology project risks?
   
   

5. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: What is the expected monetary value of the Financial Technology project?
   
   

6. Closing Process Group: Were sponsors and decision makers available when needed outside regularly scheduled meetings?
   
   

7. Project Management Plan: Is the appropriate plan selected based on your organizations objectives and evaluation criteria expressed in Principles and Guidelines policies?
   
   

8. Schedule Management Plan: Have all team members been part of identifying risks?
   
   

9. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: How to measure the achievement of the Immediate Objective?
   
   

10. Requirements Management Plan: When and how will a requirements baseline be established in this Financial Technology project?


 
Step-by-step and complete Financial Technology Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Financial Technology project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Financial Technology project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Financial Technology project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Financial Technology project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Financial Technology project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Financial Technology project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Financial Technology project with this in-depth Financial Technology Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Financial Technology projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Financial Technology and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Financial Technology investments work better.

This Financial Technology All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.