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A 2018 report by Accenture, Back Office, it’s Time to Meet the Customers, found that 75% of operational leaders at banks now want to focus on customer experience more than on efficiency. The driver behind this view is undoubtedly higher customer expectations not just for excellent service, but for better personalization and engagement as well. Th...
11 February 2019 /devops
Bhavesh Vaghela SVP B2B Product and Innovation at Collinson
I hope you all had a great festive period with loved ones and eased into the first month of 2019. Over Christmas I watched Back to the Future I, II, III with my kids (lets face it Christmas is not Christmas without Back to the Future). It got me thinking what would the almanac for 2019 read. So here is my 2019 almanac predictions.. 1. Evolution ...
01 February 2019
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
Towards the end of last year, I attended a major insurtech conference. As ever, the week was packed with interesting debates and stories about how technology is impacting the insurance industry and how insurers are reacting to changing customer demands. One of the key takeaways concerned the manner in which customers might soon be communicating wit...
30 January 2019 /ai
Ian Stone CEO at Vuealta
Now, more than a decade on from the events of 2008, the finance industry is far from settled. It’s chaos at the speed of the digital era. In fact, the next five years are set to be just as dynamic as the previous ten – filled with challenges and disruption but equally, presenting opportunities for those that navigate the period well. The sector is...
28 January 2019 /ai
When it comes to bringing innovation to the world of banking and finance, what sort of apps might we see in years to come, and what areas are potentially ripe for development? What is driving the development of new types of apps, and how will gadgets and voice-activated assistants such as Facebook Portal, Alexa and Google Home play their part? B...
28 January 2019 /devops
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors have continued to move from the fringes of the investing world to a priority topic. Most recently, ESG has become vitally important to investors and fund managers in the private markets. This is Part 1 of a series on ESG investing. View part 2, “The Top 10 ESG Metrics Private Equity Funds should C...
25 January 2019
Amid the rising complexity of M&A, the simple adage of ‘failing to prepare, then preparing to fail’ is as true today, as it always has been. That is because due diligence, the time and resource intensive preparation process, can ultimately define the success or failure of any M&A deal, which is why great importance is assigned to the metic...
22 January 2019
As more banks look to distribute new Fintech apps that integrate with core banking services as part of their platform strategies, opportunities for developers to respond with new apps are on the rise. But what should developers consider before jumping aboard the Fintech app movement? These five tips aim to help you accelerate the development proce...
21 January 2019 /devops
For several years, the narrative in financial technology has essentially argued, “The post-crisis period and its focus on heavy regulation is over. Enter Innovation.” That narrative was born of—and reinforced by—the fintech market heating up with venture capital, the idea that emerging tech could be borrowed from consumer banking and be simply rep...
21 January 2019 /regulation
Eleanor Stevenson Marketing Executive at Ebury
The huge margin of defeat suffered by Theresa May's withdrawal agreement paradoxically boosted the Pound last Tuesday, which finished the week atop the G10 rankings. A string of weak economic data from China and the Eurozone was positive for the Dollar, where the government shutdown means little macroeconomic news is being released. Market focus th...
21 January 2019
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