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Diederick Van Thiel

Diederick Van Thiel Visionary Board Member | CEO | NED at AdviceRobo | Ecology Innovations | IKANO | Channel

Win or lose? Winning banks break through the Big Tech Nash equilibrium.

In today’s ever-changing business landscape, where companies need to try and stay ahead of their competition, innovation should be one of the most important focus areas. According to strategy consultant BCG, innovation indeed is a top-three management priority for almost two-thirds of companies. This is however the lowest level since the financial...

/retail /covid-19 Innovation in Financial Services

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Can loans against anything deemed valuable to the borrower and lender be possible?

Worldwide consumers spend nearly 1.5 trillion USD in buying financial and non financial assets both movable and immovable. A major chunk of these assets does not contribute to wealth creation or an addition to users' portfolios that may return additional income in future. These are non-financial assets. In banking terms such assets are practically...

/startups /inclusion Fintech, you get me!

Keith Stonell

Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire

Customers Are Looking to Insurers for Stability in 2021

Like everyone else, insurers have had a tough year with COVID-19 and the ensuing economic uncertainty. The sudden re-modelling of their businesses around mass working from home, the collapse in the markets for travel and other insurance products through to the difficulties around claims for business interruption insurance, are all factors that hav...

/people /covid-19 Digital Insurance Trends

Sam Boboev

Sam Boboev COO & Co-Founder at Botcommerce

The future of fintech: change or die

In 2010–2012, something began to change in people’s behavior. The changes happened so slowly and naturally that most of us did not even pay attention to them. 10 years ago, the iPhone 4 was already on sale we used the phone as a tool that performs certain functions: make calls, check the map or listen to songs. Now smartphones have become our compa...

/payments /startups Fintech

Daniel Fasnacht

Daniel Fasnacht CEO&Founder at EcosystemPartners AG

Frugal banking - an opportunity to create customer value in the future?

Investments that are necessary to innovate and serve customers are no longer sustainable while COVID-19 hastens the need to exploit the potential of digital innovations. Serving customers accurately during unprecedented times requires a new mindset and business model innovations. If banks respond to customer requirements in completely new special ...

/wealth /inclusion Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Claus Christensen

Claus Christensen CEO at Know Your Customer

Is Hong Kong becoming the next RegTech capital of the world?

The lens through which we have traditionally looked at anti-money laundering compliance is changing. This is due to a number of factors. First, there is the rise of FinTechs, whose whole functioning and success is based on a digital-first approach and a customer-centricity that were not common in financial services until recently. Then there is a...

/regulation /crime Fintech

Christian Spaltenstein

Christian Spaltenstein Managing Director at AFEX Americas

Addressing Evolving Customer Experiences with API Technology

The strategic necessity for digital transformation has been on the rise as businesses are now realizing its importance to effectively automate day-to-day processes. According to SmartBear’s ‘State of APIs’ report, API traffic is growing 2.8 times year-over-year. With API technology, organizations are now able to cut operational costs, secure profi...

/payments /inclusion The Payments Business

Sam Boboev

Sam Boboev COO & Co-Founder at Botcommerce

What is a social bank? Do we need one?

In his book “Digital Bank: Strategies to launch or become a digital bank” Chris Skinner discusses the role of bank branches. Chris claims the number of bank branches is decreasing from year to year as they are unnecessary in the current digitally connected world. I agree with the idea, think about the last time you visited the physical branch of th...

/retail /inclusion Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Conchur Gill

Conchur Gill Associate Partner, Payments at Be | Shaping The Future

FinTechs will remain confused about which FinTechs to use, until they understand this...

Much of the discussion on the FinTech phenomenon in recent years has referred to FinTechs coming to market with differentiated products and innovative business models to challenge incumbents. Excitement about the growth potential of these companies has led to some confusion, especially on the issuer side of things. There is a common conflation betw...

/payments /retail Fintech

Payson Johnton

Payson Johnton CEO and Co-Founder at Crowdz

Modernizing Fintech Compliance in a Post-COVID Economy

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed life as we know it. People have switched traditional retail stores for online delivery, students at schools and universities have had to switch from in-person classes to online learning, travel has been suspended almost entirely, offices have been closed and workers sent home to work remotely - if they haven’t bee...

/regulation /covid-19 Innovation in Financial Services

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