1068 Results from 2020
Leon Gauhman Founder and CPO/CSO at Elsewhen
Banks and financial institutions were shockingly slow to respond to the rise of fintech - now they are in danger of making the same mistake with the rapidly emerging crypto banking sector. While legacy players sit on the sidelines, the likes of SEBA and Wirex are racing to develop banking products and services that support the cryptocurrency ecosy...
23 July 2020 /crypto /covid-19 Cryptocurrency Insights
Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems
With banks and their customers being forced to shift a majority of their activity online as a result of COVID-19, it is only logical that the digital banking experience should get more focus. Now, the race is on between financial institutions to get it right as those who sprint ahead of their peers will be able to use their superior banking experi...
23 July 2020 /retail /covid-19 Trends in Financial Services
Simon Wilson MD, Transaction Automation at valanticFSA
What’s next for banks in this strange new world we find ourselves in? Forget the forecasts and predictions, we are in uncharted territory and the honest answer is that no one truly knows exactly what is coming down the line. But what we do know is that accelerating payments transformation initiatives to be more cost effective, resilient, innovative...
23 July 2020 /payments /covid-19 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Robert McKechnie Head of Products at Equifax
COVID-19 has had a dramatic effect on many people’s finances, altered consumer behaviour and disrupted working environments. As we navigate a path out of the lockdown, Open Banking has the capacity to support financially vulnerable people, kick start lending and enable the financial services sector to adjust to a state of altered normality. Acros...
22 July 2020
Ben Grant Commercial Director at Aronova
Improvements in working capital management will enable all organisations to create value and enhance the way they operate. According to PWC, there is €1.2tr of excess working capital tied up on balance sheets. Those who release the blockages which hide this capital will be able to boost growth and create more potential for investment. Evaluating ...
22 July 2020 /markets Capital Markets Technology
Jamie Nascimento Chief Commercial Officer at LemonTree Software
(Words 910: 3 minute read.) The financial services software sector needs to move away from opaque pricing models. But what should we replace it with? Pricing is a murky subject at the best of times, but in the financial services software sector, it’s often like a swamp. Lift the lid on software pricing in financial services in general and you fin...
22 July 2020 /devops /startups Digital Sales
Alan McIntyre Transaction Reporting SME at Strait Downstream Ltd
As we slowly emerge from our socially distanced bubbles and contemplate the view beyond our own back garden towards the wider world again, we thought to cast our eyes stateside. More specifically, towards the North American regulatory reporting landscape. So why is that piquing our interest in particular? Well, pre-lockdown, quite a lot happened to...
22 July 2020 /regulation /markets
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
An increasing number of capital markets firms are adopting machine learning and other artificial intelligence techniques to build algorithmic trading systems that learn from data without relying on rules-based systems. With the hiring of data scientists, advances in cloud computing, and access to open source frameworks for training machine learni...
21 July 2020 /markets /covid-19 Capital Markets Technology
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
Hannes Van Rensburg Chief Commercial Officer at Clickatell
We live in a world of digital messages. Indeed, we are bombarded with hundreds of digital messages a day, ranging from casual chatter with our friends on our favorite chat platform, to downright rubbish. Sometimes, however, we do receive real valuable messages, for instance, a message to reset a password or one containing a One Time Password (OTP)...
21 July 2020
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