1068 Results from 2020
Olivier Gazon CEO at Sustainable Base Finance
Quantitative easing (QE) programs, i.e. purchase of bonds by Central Banks, have been used to inject liquidity in the economy. Yet studies show that less than 10% of generated liquidity by investors effectively reaches ‘the real economy’. QE programs have created massive liquidity, deposited at Banks. The bottleneck Banks have a structural cap to f...
29 June 2020 /sustainable /covid-19 Finance 2.0
Saloni Ramakrishna Author; Senior Director at Oracle
Since the last post, other banker friends joined the conversation of shrunken transactions and the resultant Margin compression. As I said in the first blog, the trigger was a sizeable fall in the transactions (both in volumes & value) of the banks. (https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/18844/profitability-paradigm-moving-from-business-continui...
29 June 2020 /retail /covid-19 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Amita Choudhary Marketing Manager at Princeton Growth Accelerator
There are more individuals online due to COVID-19 keeping people at home. You have remote partial and full-time workers, school children learning from home, and then you’ve got all the other people who already worked from home as well as homeschoolers, video chats and meetings. It’s one massive amount of individuals and families using the intern...
27 June 2020 /covid-19 Whatever...
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...
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
The sale of goods and services is becoming increasingly part of an ecosystem economy. From vehicle leasing to managed networking services, business models that combine different goods and services are more and more commonplace. Motor and consumer electrical markets have been adapting to these changes for some time, and they are now becoming ever-mo...
26 June 2020 /cloud /devops Digital Insurance Trends
Jamie Nascimento Chief Commercial Officer at LemonTree Software
Too many businesses are reluctant to upgrade their software, and it’s holding them back long-term. Let’s find out more. The recent article on Finextra by Digiterre highlighted a challenge we see all the time. While the piece focused on the positive changes in productivity that the new ‘working from home’ normal has brought us, it also noted, ‘mor...
26 June 2020 /devops /startups
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
Micah Willbrand Product Director ID&F at Experian UK&I
Covid-19 has caused upheaval to all our lives. With the economic impact still uncertain but likely very significant, it’s clear we’ll be living with the consequences of the outbreak for a substantial period of time. But even during these unprecedented times, criminals and fraudsters remain active. Banks and other financial providers’ fraud teams – ...
25 June 2020 /crime /covid-19 Analytics in Banking
Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS
Noted author GK Chesterton once wrote, “There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.” He penned those words nearly a century ago, but they still ring true when talking about today’s modern cloud technology and cloud computing. These days many banks are looking to the cloud for answers – and rightly so. The current economic whirlwi...
25 June 2020 /retail /cloud Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Mitzi Pryce Senior Consultant at BCS Consulting
2020 is an unprecedented year for business. The global COVID-19 pandemic has decimated economies worldwide and with Brexit looming, the future for UK business is unclear. Just as Alice fell into Wonderland in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, we have fallen down an economic rabbit hole where nothing is certain and everything is possible. ...
25 June 2020 /regulation /covid-19 Financial Services Regulation
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