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Denis Shafranik

Denis Shafranik Co Founder at Concentric

Grassroots ‘funds of funds’ should be prime target for pension mega pots

As UK pension reforms promise to channel more funding towards VC, there is a significant opportunity to earmark some of this for grassroots ‘funds of funds’, supporting entrepreneurial and emerging managers powering the early-stage innovation pipeline. The 2025 UK pension shake-up could spark an exciting new period for VC funding across Europe....

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Dmytro Spilka

Dmytro Spilka Director and Founder at Solvid, Coinprompter

What's a Better Protection Against Inflation: Cash ISAs or Stocks and Shares ISAs?

ISAs are a popular investment option in the UK, offering tax efficiency and potential long-term returns. But which individual savings account option is best for tackling periods of high inflation? When you invest in an ISA, the profit you make is exempt from capital gains tax (CGT). These types of savings accounts also shield your money from inco...

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Harriet Christie

Harriet Christie Chief Operating Officer at Mirrorweb

Left on Read: The Cost of Ignoring iMessage Compliance

Let’s face it: iMessage isn’t just where we share memes, plan dinner, or chat with friends anymore. It’s also where business gets done—and that’s a big deal in financial services. From quick client updates to team decisions, financial professionals have been using mobile messaging apps like iMessage to communicate for years. Convenient? Absolute

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Vivek Dubey

Vivek Dubey Senior Manager at Capgemeini

Agentic AI: The Disruptive Force Reshaping Wealth Management and Private Banking

The Future of Wealth Management and Private Banking: How Agentic AI is Transforming the Industry In the world of wealth management and private banking, the stakes are high. Clients entrust their life savings, dreams, and legacies to financial advisors and institutions, expecting not just returns, but also personalized service, security, and peace o...

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Jack Land

Jack Land Head of Marketing & UK Growth at MetaWealth

What’s In Store for Real-World Assets in 2025

The tokenisation of real-world assets (RWAs) is gaining serious momentum in 2025, with industry experts predicting that $50 billion in total RWA on-chain value will be reached this year. Converting ownership of real-world assets such as bonds, real estate or commodities into digital tokens on a blockchain enhances liquidity and transparency. Finan...

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Research

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Don’t go extinct - How Wealth Managers can remain relevant

Transformation drivers and actions to prioritise Until recently, the wealth management industry in the UK has been largely homogeneous, with most traditional firms offering similar products and services to similar customers under similar business models. Fintech has been chipping away at these norms for a few years, but even in 2021, traditional wealth managers with rudimentary digital tools still dominate the market.  However, the pace of change has accelerated in the last year.  Newcomers are arriving in droves with engaging customer experiences, new technology and convergent services that address the historical limitations of the wealth industry, while opening new doors to new opportunities.  Now Covid-19 has put the industry into the spotlight, exposing some enduring weaknesses and highlighting the need for modernisation.  In a post-pandemic world, wealth management companies that are willing to innovate will begin to pull sharply away from those that are stuck in the past. Everyone hoping to remain relevant in this space - banks, advisory firms, asset managers, investment managers and technology providers - must be ready to drive transformation or risk extinction.  Download your copy of this Finextra impact study, produced in association with Cognizant, to learn more.   

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The Future of ESGTech 2022

Employing Data to Deliver on the UN's SDGs The unrealised potential for data to serve fertile, yet dormant, use cases is limitless. Therefore, empowering the reclaiming and repurposing of data is paramount if data is to lead to all people living in peace and prosperity. This endeavour has not progressed due to the entities holding data being unwilling to exchange data over concerns around data protection and security or the prioritisation of the desire to capture direct returns on investment. Others may also be reluctant to share data in hope they gain market power or competitive advantage. In financial services, this has not been the case. With the second Payments Services Directive or PSD2, banks are required to open access to data and share with other organisations. This has increased transparency of pricing, improved security through authentication and verification and encouraged banks to use application programming interfaces (APIs) for this disclosure of information. This shift to a digital economy will continue and will result in an attraction to a platform where financial data can be used to offer value-added services to other industries. One example would be open finance, an API-enabled offering, now facilitates the sharing of financial products, data, and services between independent parties, going beyond the regulatory requirements set out around open banking. By utilising APIs, financial institutions can implement open finance solutions to offer people greater product choice and control over their finances and data. Repurposing different types of data can amplify the impact of data on economic, environmental, or cultural development, can help fill information gaps and cultivate new perspectives. However, the world is behind schedule on achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. This report will focus on specific targets, however, not all, and consider how environmental, social and governance (ESG) data can be utilised by financial institutions and fintech firms to achieve the SDGs and ensure global communities can migrate to a circular global economy.

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The Future of Wealth Management 2022

A sector at the beginning of its digital renaissance. Increased digitisation of goods and services throughout the 2010s gathered pace long before Covid-19 turned the global outlook on its head. The pandemic served only to reaffirm this shift to digital as a matter of urgency.    The wealth management sector was not spared the upheaval; however, it appears to be emerging from the crisis with an invigorated sense of progress.    The disruptive forces of digitisation and Covid-19 are now joined by a groundswell of consumer expectation. This is clearly witnessed in the soaring uptake of retail investment tools and applications, greater access to financial instruments and widespread revolt against the traditional inaccessibility of financial services.  This report, the Future of Wealth Management 2021 with interviews from Accenture, Coutts, Hargreaves Lansdown, Nutmeg, Oxford Risk, Tilney Smith & Williamson, and UBS Global Wealth Management will explore the forces currently shaping the industry. It will examine not only what these forces are, but how and why they form the structural foundation for a sector which is at the very beginning of its digital renaissance.

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Chainlink Unveils New Privacy and Interoperability Solutions for Blockchain Adoption

At Sibos 2024, Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink, highlighted the growing adoption of blockchain technology by asset managers, driven by efficiency gains in settlement, payments, and collateral management. Nazarov announced the launch of two key privacy-focused tools: the Blockchain Privacy Manager and CCIP Private Transactions, designed to ensure secure, private transactions across multiple blockchains. He also emphasised the importance of interoperability, introducing Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), which aims to enable seamless asset and system integration in the evolving digital assets landscape.

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Long reads

Dominic Lowres

Dominic Lowres Head Electronic Trading at Investec

Low-touch trading: Why personal service still matters

The past decade has seen a steady shift towards automated trading, propelled by ongoing technological innovations and relentless cost pressures. While this trend will undoubtedly continue, an overly narrow focus on costs risks diverting attention from the real needs of clients. The winners in the future of trading technology will be those who succ...

Richard Shearwood

Richard Shearwood Wealth Consultant at Simplify Consulting

Wealth management in 2025: Tech innovation in focus

Technology in the wealth management industry cannot be avoided. Firms will have to adapt or die in this fast-moving sector. Businesses need to revamp their business strategy and make sure technology is at the centre of the operation – otherwise they will be left behind in the market by more forward-thinking companies. Technology is reshaping the we...

Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

How APIs can unlock huge value for banks and their treasury customers

When corporate and banking institution systems communicate, it’s all about easier, faster, and more. Data is the product, and Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) are becoming the ‘golden key’ to sharing it for accounts, transactions, and reporting on both. At the NW Summit of the Association for Financial Professionals, experts from both worl...