Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
At the beginning of the pandemic, there were perhaps few institutions that looked less well equipped to function under social distancing than Lloyd’s of London. Synonymous with antiquated practices and the primacy of dealing face-to-face, business at Lloyd’s should have ground to a halt this year. Of course, the reality is that this has not been t...
15 December 2020 /cloud /markets Digital Insurance Trends
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
With so many traders working from home, the pandemic is said to have accelerated the shift to electronic trading in U.S. Treasury bonds. Now industry leaders are debating the future of trading protocols in the world’s largest and most liquid market. On a recent industry webinar, bond experts said that supporting multiple trading protocols is key t...
11 December 2020 /regulation /markets Capital Markets Technology
Amita Choudhary Marketing Manager at Princeton Growth Accelerator
Investors and coin collectors now have something to look forward to. In early October, the US Mint unveiled the design of the new American Eagle Gold and Silver coin designs, which will come to market in 2021. This includes bullion and collector versions of the coin. Bullion coins are one of the easiest ways for everyday consumers to invest in and...
03 December 2020 /markets Financial Inclusion
Vladimir Ershov Head of Data Science & Machine Learning at Clausematch
How do we reimagine the regulatory framework? In an increasingly interconnected world financial services are rapidly blurring boundaries. They need to constantly keep track of changing regulatory obligations in different jurisdictions, fragmented and differing rules written in different languages and using different taxonomy. One specific area of ...
24 November 2020 /regulation /markets RegTech
Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech
We have witnessed the rise and fall of many marketplaces around the world, some got truly global, some became local leaders, others found their niches. When we say ‘marketplace’ we instantly think of Amazon, or Taobao, or Wish, or AliExpress, or Jumia, depending on your region and habits, of course. Strictly speaking, the marketplace is not a sin
20 November 2020 /payments /markets Digital Sales
Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com
On 10 July 2020, the SEC released for comment a proposed rule that would change the reporting threshold for Form 13F from $100 million to $3.5 billion for institutional investment managers. The SEC thought it was a good time to increase the threshold which was established 45 years ago to reflect the change in size and structure of the U.S. equitie...
18 November 2020 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
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 Trends in Financial Services
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
While the word "Ecosystem" was almost unused in the financial services world a few years ago, today it is on the top of the agenda of every bank and insurance company. As always, with such a loaded term, it is important to take first a step back and oversee the bigger picture. Ecosystems in the financial services industry are a logical e...
16 November 2020 /startups /markets Embedded Finance
Retired Member
Banking has really changed in the last decade by the entry of New Age Banks (NAB), NeoBanks and Fintechs. They are rolling out new digital features/services at an alarming rate now. Although,the traditional incumbent banks worldwide are trying to cope up with them, but due to the existing impediments, it slows down their pace to match up with them...
16 November 2020 /people /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Beni Hakak CEO at LiquidApps
For the better part of the 20th century, the financial world remained largely exclusive to only the upper classes and the wealthiest of people. Yet advancements in technology and social attitudes have created a new paradigm of financial inclusion. With the mass digitization of our world in the first few years of the 21st century, the once-excluded...
11 November 2020 /inclusion /markets Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
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