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Data Management and Governance

Anything that can be used to better manage and govern data.

Barley Laing

Barley Laing UK Managing Director at Melissa

Time to spring clean customer databases to drive growth

The last twelve months have been a challenging time for many in financial services, with the pandemic and also Brexit to contend with. This means it’s more important than ever to look at all options to keep customers happy and drive growth in 2021. Spring clean customer data A good place to start is with data. Best practice business decision makin...

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Nick Green

Nick Green Director at Purple Patch Broking Ltd

Lenders: Do you trust your data sources?

It’s increasingly difficult to achieve a reliable data set – and that could mean you can’t trust the information shared within your lending organisation. So, what’s the solution? In this blog, we explore how to gain high-quality data for credit risk programs, like AML, without it taking an abundance of your time. Beyond satisfying regulatory gover...

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Lynda Kershaw

Lynda Kershaw 

Don’t let legacy application challenges hold back your digital transformation

We all recognize that the pandemic has made digital transformation a more urgent priority for financial services organisations. With employees working from home and many more customers wanting to do business virtually, the pressure to innovate and roll out digital and virtual services to stay ahead of the competition is intense. However, a major b...

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David Csiki

David Csiki President & COO at INDATA

How Emerging Tech Can Transform Client Outreach and Reporting for Investment Managers

Whether it be standardized client statements, marketing factsheets or other investor communications, investment management firms face a myriad of challenges when trying to provide accurate reporting to clients, consultants and other third parties. Investment managers seeking to automate client outreach and differentiate themselves from their compe...

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Christopher Smith

Christopher Smith Director at Mail Manager Ltd

Compliance and control: Solve your data headache with better email and document management

The increasing volume of data that financial firms hold is making it difficult for them to control information and ensure sensitive correspondence is managed effectively. This lack of data management control is putting financial firms at enhanced risk of data breaches, insider attacks and poor client service. For example, research from Varonis fou...

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John Cant

John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd

You've been quiet - are you Dormant, Deceased or just Gone Away?

When a financial sector customer becomes less active it is often an important signal that they have reached a new stage in their lifecycle, and critically need specific handling. We will look at some possible customer states that all share this common symptom but require quite different handling and priority from different business functions. The

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Joris Lochy

Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever

The boundary between Data and Code is blurring

In the corporate world, the usage of Excel files is still enormous. Many business tools are still running in Excel, often extended with VBA macros and applications. As an Excel fan myself, I can relate to that, as nothing else allows in such a short time to build a powerful and flexible tool, adapted to your specific business needs. However as a so...

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Barley Laing

Barley Laing UK Managing Director at Melissa

Seamless 2x2 ID verification is critical during and post pandemic

What is clear from the pandemic is that financial institutions need a standout online presence if they are to prosper today and in the future. The health crisis has hastened acceptance and reliance on digital solutions for home working and shopping. The same goes for banking and payments as consumers become increasingly comfortable engaging with th...

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John Cant

John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd

But it worked in Harrogate!

I have nothing against Harrogate, well not consciously at least. However, over recent months there has been much discussion about unconscious bias in many walks of life - including mention in this article about data used for algorithms. So let's consider the role that preparation of data for regulatory uses might have, and where issues exist, what...

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Retired Member

Retired Member 

COVID-19 analytics: the lesson for those involved in policy management

Contemporary government policy interventions are increasingly defined by data, indicators, and metrics. Furthermore, Data-driven ‘radical incrementalism’ methodologies devised by the now independent the UK’s Government Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) – which is now independent of the UK government – have been successfully used worldwide. BIT’s usu...

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