Accenture

118 results about this entity

Period: 07 Nov 2011 - 22 Oct 2024

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).

Accenture and nCino grow global footprint

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and nCino have expanded the geographic scope of their alliance to help financial institutions in Asia-Pacific and EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) implement and adopt nCino’s cloud-based digital banking solution, enabling them to accelerate their digital transformations while streamlining their various business lines, minimizing risk and increasing profitability.

Hong Kong consumers ready to embrace Open Banking

As Hong Kong prepares for a new era of Open banking, a survey by Accenture finds consumers in the territory are far more willing than their Western counterparts to give third parties access to their financial data.

Accenture acquires Swiss fintech consultancy Orbium

Accenture has agreed to acquire Orbium, a management consultancy and technology services provider to the financial services industry, headquartered in Switzerland.