1068 Results from 2020
Leon Gauhman Founder and CPO/CSO at Elsewhen
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are increasingly viewed as a tantalising proposition by investors, especially in this era of COVID-19 inspired low interest rates. However, incumbent banks have so far been reluctant to engage with the fast-growing crypto market because of the sector’s less reputable elements: with their wild fluctuat...
09 September 2020 /regulation /crypto
Lisette Anciaes Senior Account Director at TCA Group of Companies
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically reshaped the traditional school experience. Gone are the days of the school cafeteria, with hundreds of teenagers sitting elbow-to-elbow eating and spreading germs. Everything taken away by COVID, however, must be replaced in some form. It is exceedingly likely that these new COVID safety protocols in school ...
09 September 2020 /people /inclusion Financial Literacy for Kids
Retired Member
The success of any ecommerce merchant is down to how well they can convert their customers into buyers. The two don’t automatically mean one and the same, and while a percentage of customer will arrive with the goal of buying one particular product in mind, many will simply be browsing or intending to buy a product but not necessarily from your st...
09 September 2020 /payments /startups Fintech
Adrian Sargent Founder and Managing Director at ESG Treasury Ltd
All you may have already seen the Finextra article with reference to Green RWA Asssocation, the theory ids bansk need to hold capital for all risks, therefore our paper proposes a methodology to allocate captial for climate change risks. Read the article here: https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/36527/maths-for-esg-how-one-calculation-could-ign...
09 September 2020 /regulation /sustainable Banking Regulations
Thomas Sutter Finance Centre of Excellence at Oracle NetSuite
Our move to remote working has brought about an important realisation for virtual accounting teams – traditional accounting practices are long overdue for change. Suddenly, we’re being forced to assess what works, and what doesn’t. But in order to look forward, let’s consider where we’ve started. The standard accounting processes most businesses us...
08 September 2020 /people /covid-19
Sandra Higgins Chief Marketing Officer at Sysnet
When it comes to leading a healthy lifestyle, eating the right food, taking regular exercise, and maintaining a positive mindset are key. However, despite these best intentions and practices, you still might not get all the nutrients your body needs to ensure it is working as effectively as possible. To combat this, a doctor might suggest taking a...
08 September 2020 /security /startups Fintech
Béla Vér Founder and CEO at ApPello
Legacy IT challenges The challenges of bridging old and new IT systems have been demonstrated recently by banking outages at some of the leading retail banks. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light the necessity for banks to switch to a fully digitalised customer experience, as a way of adapting to the new normal of working from hom...
08 September 2020 /retail /cloud Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Dmitrii Barbasura Chief Operating Officer at Fintech Galaxy
This article is part of a series about the value of open banking and the rules it comes with. Open banking fundamentally changes the landscape of the modern financial sector, stimulating all types of companies to release new services and making traditional banking products simpler, and more convenient, while removing additional costs. Open banking ...
08 September 2020 /regulation /retail Open Banking
Prasoon Mukherjee Director | Head of Securities Services | GSC-India at Societe Generale Bank
Is blockchain capitalist or socialist? Libertarian or collectivist? Leftwing or rightwing? The answers to the above questions are neither or both, as we shall find out in this article, scraping through the past 2500 odd years of human thoughts in shaping societies, culture, commerce, and thereby relating it to the root paradigm that this technolog...
08 September 2020 /crypto /markets Blockchain Observations
Jeremy Light Co-founder at Fourdotzero
1200 words, 4.5 minute read Central bank balance sheets are ballooning the world over, and in parallel, adoption of shared ledgers using blockchain is accelerating. These major shifts indicate the global architecture for money and payments is on the cusp of structural change. Blockchain analysis and debate are dominated by a focus on cryptocurrenci...
08 September 2020 /payments /crypto Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
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