1068 Results from 2020
Haohan Xu CEO at Apifiny
The race is on to reinvent settlement. As customer demands for faster settlement times increase, and new technologies come online, banks are under pressure to meet their clients’ heightened needs It's been more than 20 years since the Internet’s arrival transformed the way people access information, manifested in search engines that deliver the wor...
11 June 2020 /payments /startups SWIFT Matters
Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS
Winston Churchill tells us never to waste a good crisis. While it’s hard to find good in the current COVID-19 pandemic, challenging times do prompt us to question the status quo and find new answers, more quickly. Our financial world has been able to weather this global crisis thanks to always-on digital banking services. We’re at an inflection po...
11 June 2020 /retail /covid-19 Digital Banking Trends
Retired Member
The global gaming industry has been growing rapidly in recent years and continues to flourish; it’s predicted to be worth more than $565 billion by 2022. That’s an increase of more than $100 billion since 2018, which means the industry will grow by more than a fifth in the coming years. There are a number of factors from the last year in particula...
11 June 2020 /payments /startups Fintech
Mattia Bruzzi EMEA Banking Sales Director at Earnix
I know the title of this article may sound funny or even pretentious but believe me, this is how I felt when I was recently contacted - twice - by my bank for an offer to show me how they (think, Ed.) care about me. I won’t reveal the name of the bank because I strive to be a fair gentleman so I will just say that it is a Large European bank which ...
10 June 2020 /people /retail Financial Product personalization
Kiran Komma Senior Domain Consultant at Tata Consutlancy Services
Investment banks continue to be under pressure due to regulatory changes, declining revenues, and rising costs. Revenues generated by 12 biggest investment banks from trading and advisory operations are down by 11% for first six months of 2019, according to Financial Times article. COVID-19 pandemic will impact investment banks due to significantl...
10 June 2020 /markets
Yassamin Issapour CFO & Co-Founder at agora Digital Capital Markets (DDCM Ltd)
When non-tech people think of blockchain, they don’t think of traditional asset classes, they think of cryptocurrencies or other B2C products. That is a mistake; core distributed ledger technology (“DLT”) is now an integral part of the technical development and improvement to client service in the finance industry and B2B space. JP Morgan’s 2019 r...
10 June 2020 /startups /covid-19 Capital Markets Technology
Last summer, experts predicted that global ecommerce sales would increase by 16% in 2020. Of course, they were not able to predict COVID-19 crisis and the impact it would have on consumer behaviour. A new stay at home economy has emerged as businesses embrace digital sales channels to meet evolving consumer needs. Months after many countries impl...
10 June 2020 /payments /covid-19 Fintech
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
The Baby Boomer generation (i.e. the generation born between 1946 and 1964 - so between 55-75 years old) is retiring in record numbers. In the US alone, about 10.000 baby boomers will retire every day. Such an enormous retirement wave will have enormous impacts on the economy: An enormous amount of jobs will need to be replaced, resulting in a va...
09 June 2020 /wealth /retail Capital Markets Technology
Hannes Van Rensburg Chief Commercial Officer at Clickatell
There has been a lot of hype about conversational commerce. Many say that this will be the future of how people will interact with technology. In question, however, is how will technology be able to understand us and respond? Of course we should be able to talk to technology, like we do with other humans. One can see how brands have embraced this ...
09 June 2020 /payments
How does a business owner choose a banking plan? It’s not only special features and attractive rates that drive the customer’s choice: complete and ethical visual representation on a bank’s website is absolutely crucial to increase conversion and build trust. Unfortunately, this is something many banks neglect to this day, using opaque – and somet...
09 June 2020 /payments /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
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