1068 Results from 2020
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Fraud and financial crimes perpetrated against insurers are on the rise. Although the banking industry remains the primary route for money laundering, stricter regulations and improved AML controls within that sector have driven criminals to other channels that may be more vulnerable to money laundering activities. Insurance providers, often less ...
24 November 2020 /regulation /crime Digital Insurance Trends
Nicky Tozer Vice President of EMEA at Oracle NetSuite
Even with the most careful preparation, planning for the new year may look a little different this time around. Despite a turbulent year nearly being visible in the rearview mirror, external factors are unlikely to conform to our 12-month calendar and will continue to serve up disruption and opportunity in 2021. In the UK, for example, ‘lockdown’ ...
24 November 2020 /cloud /covid-19
Matt Neill Managing Director at Beyond
2021 will be a challenging but critical year for financial organisations wanting to deliver change within client onboarding and client lifecycle management (CLM). Covid and the fear of a global recession have dramatically increased the need for digital transformation, automation and streamlined processes, and there is no doubt that banks have to r...
24 November 2020 /regulation /wholesale Operational Risk Management
Sophie Dionnet VP Strategy at Dataiku
With a total shutdown of certain sectors of activity, it was not surprising that in June, leading economic forecaster EY Item Club predicted that GDP would shrink by 8% this year. Though the drop was not as dramatic as expected, the Office for National Statistics reported that GDP in June was still a sixth below its level in February, before the v...
24 November 2020 /wholesale /sustainable Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
With regulators worldwide becoming more and more demanding and processes to get licensed becoming more and more costly and complex, obtaining a license from a regulatory authority has become a full business in its own. Not only are there (lawyer) firms (such as FLA = Financial Licensing Advisors, Simont Braun, Four & Five…) specialized in comp...
23 November 2020 /regulation Banking Regulations
While every sector has been affected by COVID-19 in some way, the retail industry has experienced one of the most dramatic shifts of all. With the UK and much of Europe in a second lockdown many bricks-and-mortar outlets are being forced to close their doors once again and many retailers are fearing the changes that will come from this. Back in Ma...
23 November 2020 /payments /covid-19 Fintech
It has been 12 years since the first cryptocurrency appeared. Back in October 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto published a whitepaper about a peer-to-peer electronic cash system which he dubbed “Bitcoin”. In early 2009, the first block was mined and the first ever Bitcoin transaction took place. This marked the beginning of the creation of the first decentral...
23 November 2020
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
Chandan Goel Manager-Data Engineering at PublicisSapient
Background and Motive Data predominantly is core to any and every organisation and so does Data Engineering. Especially in financial/banking industry where data’s availability and its fast processing in timely manner is even more important, from different perspective like customer retention, decision-making and regulatory requirements too. An ask ...
19 November 2020 /retail /sustainable BANKING banking on BIGDATA
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
For someone who is far from being an expert in the global fintech market, the Scandinavian region is not the first one to come up in mind when thinking about the world’s financial technology hubs. Although Silicon Valley, vibrant Singapore, London, and Berlin remain to be the traditional places that one thinks of when discussing fintech, Scandinav...
19 November 2020
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