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Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
The last few years I have done quite some market studies for potential new business ideas, mainly in the Fintech, banking and insurance industry, but also in the IT, FoodTech, horeca and mobility sector. Such an exercise typically starts with identifying the trends in the market, i.e. how the market is evolving, as this is key to ensure your busine...
27 January 2021 /predictions
Andreas Hobbelin Head of AML & FCP at ZTL PAYMENT SOLUTION
To answer this, one most likely need to go deep on all financial institutions (FI), however, what if one would ask some simple questions to begin with? Lets start with the following; Are you screening your clients against US sanction lists? Most would answer Yes Are you screening your client’s counterparties against US sanction lists...
15 January 2021 /regulation /crime
Daire Ferguson CEO at AvaTrade
As of 2019, the average daily social media usage of internet users worldwide amounted to 144 minutes per day, up from 142 minutes in the previous year. Given the whirlwind year that 2020 has been, with so many people stuck at home, it seems likely that the most recent data will be even higher. Social media provides a useful way for us to keep in c...
24 December 2020 /markets /predictions
Thomas Pintelon Head of Strategy at Capilever
In a previous blog on whether "credits are not too commoditized" we shared some thoughts on how banks can differentiate more based on offered credit services rather than just interest rate. The blog mainly focused on private purpose loans, but similar trends and needs exist for businesses/SMEs. In this blog we won’t focus on large corpor...
01 December 2020 /retail
Kamal Misra Senior Director, Head of Banking at Capgemini Invent India
2020 has been a year fraught with a wild goose chase for fiscal sanity. As the global economy grapples with a massive instability owing to the Covid 19 pandemic, the Financial Services (FS) sector, in particular, seeks to trudge off the beaten track to rediscover value and substance. Leading banks around the world are undertaking restructuring and...
18 November 2020 /wealth /markets
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 Executive at DCR Strategies Inc.
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
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