Accenture

121 results about this entity

Period: 07 Nov 2011 - 21 Mar 2025

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AI and enhancing the human element in financial services

At SIBOS 2019, industry experts will be discussing how the financial services sector is in the vanguard of deploying AI on a global scale and whether the technology will be a transformative force or has the potential to act as an existential threat.

Digital banks on track to treble customers in next year but profits remain elusive

Digital-only banks operating in the UK are set to experience massive growth over the next year, amassing 35 million customers around the world, according to research from Accenture, which nevertheless highlights obstacles to profitability.

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Accenture acquires Parker Fitzgerald

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired Parker Fitzgerald, a strategic advisor and consulting partner to leading global financial institutions, further enhancing the business and technology capabilities within its Finance and Risk practice. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Global fintech investment falls sharply

Global investment in fintech ventures fell sharply in the first half of 2019, as fundraising and deal activity in China ground to a halt, partially offsetting strong gains in the US, UK and several other European countries, according to Accenture analysis of data from CB Insights.

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Accenture encourages women to apply for 2020 Fintech Innovation Lab

Today Accenture opens up applications for its eighth Fintech Innovation Lab London. In addition to the Lab’s overall goal of helping fintechs from all areas and backgrounds to excel, this year Accenture is also aiming to improve the number of female founders taking part in an effort to narrow the gender gap in fintech.

Finextra & Accenture: The time is now: Seizing PPaaS

Martin Bentele , Managing Director, Payments Lead, ASGR, Accenture, speaks at EBADay about why banks should move payments onto a utility outside, whether Payment Platform as a Service covers standard payments processing only, the value proposition of PPaaS and when the right time is for banks to consider PPaaS.

As blockchain hype subsides, banks count the cost of early euphoria

Banks and technology companies have poured billions of dollars into blockchain projects, but as the hype dies down, many of the early evangelists for the technology have come to the conclusion that production-ready deployment still remains a distant goal.

Transforming Risk Systems for Financial Institutions

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Banks falling behind in digital transformation efforts

Despite investing more than $1trn globally in new technology over the last three years, the majority of banks have yet to see any financial boost from their digital transformation programmes.

Money 20/20 Europe 2019: Stop innovating, start executing

Money20/20 Europe dives deep into three debates that continue in boardrooms across Europe around the subject of cultural innovation, technology innovation and external innovation.

ABN Amro to launch blockchain and IoT platform for trade inventories

ABN Amro is looking to launch a blockchain platform for the commodities industry that uses the Internet of Things to communicate directly with physical trade inventories.

Canada and Singapore central banks use blockchain for cross-border payments

The Bank of Canada and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have used distributed ledger technology to send each other central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).