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Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd
Environment, Social and Governance metrics are here to stay. The ESG investment market has surpassed USD 30 trillion. Governance needs better ways to measure corporate behaviour. ESG metrics measure corporate behaviour and sustainability. ESG metrics is a shift from intangibles to tangibles. Achieve holistic governance using ESG and fina...
16 October 2020 /regulation /markets
Farah Miller CEO at Helixtap Technologies
In August, the S&P Dow Jones Indices, which monitors the 30 companies that make up the Dow Jones, announced Exxon Mobil (XOM), Pfizer (PFE), and Raytheon (RTN) were getting the boot before the market opened on August 31. The three companies that replaced these historical titans were Salesforce (CRM), Amgen (AMGN) and Honeywell International (H...
07 October 2020 /cloud /markets
Lisette Anciaes Senior Account Director at TCA Group of Companies
Incentive travel is an important subcategory of the Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE) industry – used by many top companies as a “perk” to help incentivize, motivate or inspire employees and partners across their organization. Often tied to a company’s long-term goals, top-tier employees are effectively given a “carrot” tha...
06 October 2020 /payments /covid-19
Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems
COVID-19 saw banks accelerate their digital transformation plans, condensing them from year-long projects into a matter of weeks. In fact, research from Pega found that the pandemic increased organisations’ urgency for digital transformation, with 91% of all respondents admitting that changes are now needed for their business to survive in a post-...
21 September 2020 /retail
Retired Member
Swift change has been a common factor across industries since COVID-19. The financial services industry is one of many to have experienced disruption. An unprecedented government response in economic policy, changes to our very way of life, and business adaptation across all markets have all combined to make this pandemic hugely disruptive. With t...
16 September 2020 /people /markets
Eugene Rudenko Marketing manager at Aetsoft
Among the lending firms that fall victim to hacker attacks, mid-large ones surprisingly become the primary targets. LexisNexis reports that only last year, 2,000 mid-large financial services firms and over 1,500 loan vendors suffered from hackers each month. For smaller companies, the figures are more modest: 1,000 and 640 monthly attacks, respect...
06 August 2020 /security /payments
With banks and their customers being forced to shift a majority of their activity online as a result of COVID-19, it is only logical that the digital banking experience should get more focus. Now, the race is on between financial institutions to get it right as those who sprint ahead of their peers will be able to use their superior banking experi...
23 July 2020 /retail /covid-19
Coming into 2020, many wealth management firms have already embarked on digital transformation projects, while others have been slow to evolve. And while digitising the client experience, addressing data management and technological infrastructure, and streamlining operations through automation have been popular areas to focus on, the needs of rel...
01 June 2020 /wealth
Gary Linieres CEO & Co-founder at Wealth Dynamix
In January, when I asked the Wealth Dynamix leadership team to pick one piece of advice they would offer to a wealth manager looking to achieve differentiation in 2020, we had no idea that within weeks our world would be turned upside down by a pandemic as voracious as COVID-19. In hindsight, the quote I referenced at that time from Jim Marous, Ed...
14 May 2020 /wealth /markets
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
For companies a financial balance sheet (i.e. the statement of the financial position at a certain date) is common practice and for the majority of companies even mandatory to create one as part of their annual reporting. In such a balance the assets are put against the liabilities, with the sum of the assets always equal to the sum of the liabilit...
05 May 2020 /wealth /retail
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