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An ever-evolving regulatory landscape has posed major challenges for financial services firms in recent years. But the move to remote working, prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, has posed a completely new set of compliance challenges. Although lockdowns are now easing, financial services businesses have realised that even with their teams largely...
24 July 2020 /regulation /people Innovation in Financial Services
Lisette Anciaes Senior Account Executive at DCR Strategies Inc.
In light of the recent worldwide pandemic, industries are quickly changing the way payments are received and distributed. It is no longer considered safe to pay or receive pay with cash or cheques as this is perceived as another way to transfer the deadly virus. This should be especially considered in delivering University and College per diem pay...
23 July 2020 /payments /people Digital Banking Trends
Amita Choudhary Marketing Manager at Princeton Growth Accelerator
Insurance is commonly seen as a complicated field that requires an expert to navigate. And while that may have been true in the past, it’s far from the case nowadays with all the advancements we’ve seen over the years. Sure, it still takes a special knack for things to find the best deals and ensure that you’re seeing the big picture. But the aver...
21 July 2020 /people Digital Insurance Trends
Jamie Nascimento Chief Commercial Officer at LemonTree Software
Words: 1,077 - 3 minute read. It may not seem like a sensible idea to be launching a business during a global pandemic, but if you get the fundamentals right, you can reap the rewards. There’s a global pandemic affecting the way we live and work. Economists predict a recession like nothing we’ve seen in our lifetime. It may not seem like the bes...
09 July 2020 /people /startups Innovation in Financial Services
Luc Gueriane CCO at Moorwand
Cashless payments were on the rise way before the pandemic. However, COVID-19 has forced consumers to abandon notes and coins in favour of mobile and contactless card payments. Recently, Nationwide revealed that, in a poll of 2,000 Brits, more than a quarter have gone two or more months without using cash. In addition, the usage of ATMs has seen a...
08 July 2020 /payments /people
Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems
COVID-19 scattered workforces and business operations virtually overnight. At the same time, the impact of the pandemic has accelerated digital sales and service demand in ways that suggest permanent change. This trend is confirmed by McKinsey which noted that remote advisory channels may be finally coming of age, potentially meaning that up to 35...
07 July 2020 /people /covid-19 Innovation in Financial Services
Nicholas Bradford Associate Global Product Marketer at Euronet Software Solutions
Many people around the world are working from home lately. This means many of us are in meetings online using tools like Zoom, WebEx, Teams, Slack, Google Hangouts, or a number of others. They’re all pretty easy to use, but there are some tips that can help make your virtual collaborations even better. Use a headset Remember way back in the olde...
26 June 2020 /people /covid-19 Whatever...
Antonio Ferre IT Manager at Plastic Forte
Recently, the European Parliament has included the Functional Size concept (base for IT strategic information such as Productivy, Quality or PDR, in spite of low level development methods, tools, trends, ...) as Transversal Engineering Framework in the European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedo
25 June 2020 /people /markets IT Metrics
Paul Shumsky Technology Advisor at Entrepreneur
Banks used to win customers over by offering competitive interest rates, great services, and accessibility by having many locations. Now, interest rates are even across the board, services are only click away, and your bank is in your pocket. The world has changed and how FinTech companies win customers’ hearts has as well. Banks and FinTech compa...
24 June 2020 /people /retail Digital Banking Trends
Mattia Bruzzi EMEA Banking Sales Director at Earnix
I know the title of this article may sound funny or even pretentious but believe me, this is how I felt when I was recently contacted - twice - by my bank for an offer to show me how they (think, Ed.) care about me. I won’t reveal the name of the bank because I strive to be a fair gentleman so I will just say that it is a Large European bank which ...
10 June 2020 /people /retail Financial Product personalization
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