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Claus Christensen

Claus Christensen CEO at Know Your Customer

The Agile Future of Digital Finance in Europe

The Digital Finance Outreach 2020 is an initiative launched by the European Union to better understand, foster and stimulate the FinTech ecosystem across the bloc. An essential part of the programme is a series of events – organised in collaboration with all Member States – aimed at engaging the community and preparing the new EU Digital Finance S...

/regulation /startups Fintech

Carlo R.W. De Meijer

Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA

Blockchain-as-a-service and SMEs: great opportunities

One of the recent promising blockchain trends is the growth of Blockchain-as-a Service (BAAS) platforms and software. This is highlighted by the recent release of the Second Annual Blockchain 50 list by Forbes. Several of the entrants on this year’s list offer blockchain-as-a-Service, including global players such as Microsoft, Amazon and IBM. The...

/crypto Blockchain Observations

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Living with Covid-19 means it is time for a more inclusive way to transact

All sorts of things have changed as a result of the pandemic. There is a huge push towards digital environments as we navigate social distancing measures and public health concerns. Ultimately, this is the direction the financial services industry was headed, but it is concerning that the pace of change may leave many members of society feeling da...

/inclusion /covid-19 Fintech

Gary Linieres

Gary Linieres CEO & Co-founder at Wealth Dynamix

Managing Portfolios in a Pandemic: Why Intelligent Automation Matters Most

In January, when I asked the Wealth Dynamix leadership team to pick one piece of advice they would offer to a wealth manager looking to achieve differentiation in 2020, we had no idea that within weeks our world would be turned upside down by a pandemic as voracious as COVID-19. In hindsight, the quote I referenced at that time from Jim Marous, Ed...

/wealth /markets Trends in Financial Services

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

Bouncing Back in Financial Services: Looking After Your Customers and Your Employees

With most businesses having to shut up shop almost overnight as a result of COVID-19, thousands of people have either been furloughed or lost their jobs and are struggling to make ends meet. Understandably, their cashflow issues are leading to a deluge of enquiries to their banks, relating to loan concessions and restructuring, short-term cash disb...

/retail /covid-19 Customer Service 2015-2019-2025

Alessio Balduini

Alessio Balduini CEO at Crif Business Solutions

Open banking: Enabling SMEs to drive recovery in a post-Covid economy

The latest data from Bank of England projects a contraction of 14% of GDP on an annual basis with an astounding 25% contraction in Q2 alone. This could result in a loss of 15-20% - or up to a million - Small and Medium Enterprises. Needless to say, these are unprecedented and troubling figures. The graph below is unique as it is based on open bank...

/payments /covid-19 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Ivy Schmerken

Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems

Factor Strategies React to Crisis-Induced Volatility

Given the extreme market volatility and disruptions to the economy caused by the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, asset managers using factor-based investment strategies have seen their risk exposures shift in unexpected ways. At the same time, factor investing has grown as an approach to screening stocks based on the attributes that drive risk and...

/regulation /markets Hedge Fund Technology

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Are banks that run on legacy systems able to compete with their digital counterparts?

Now, more than ever, the disparity between the legacy systems still used by some traditional banks, and the newer systems used by challenger banks, is stark. It goes without saying that systems developed back in the 70’s were not designed for our modern world. Legacy systems are not adaptable. How could they be? Those who designed them had no idea...

/payments Banking Architecture

Gustav Korobov

Gustav Korobov Senior Sales Executive - Core Banking platform at Advapay

How the post-Covid-19 reality will change banks and fintech

Talks about the “new reality” and “the world will never be the same” flooded the Internet, and the society is pretty fed up with those words and phrases. Nevertheless, changes are already taking place, and it would be foolish to ignore the obvious - because now it is imperative to understand which way the wind is blowing to be able to adapt to cir...

/startups /covid-19 Fintech

Jennifer Worley

Jennifer Worley SVP Product Management at Meta Payment Systems, a Division of MetaBank

Contextual Commerce: Paving the Way for Contextual Banking

When it comes to e-commerce, frictionless has been the name of the game for several years now. The rise of in-app purchases makes it clear — consumers want to stay within the channels they’re in, and they want purchases to be quick, easy and convenient. After all, more than half of consumers have made a purchase directly through a social media pla...

/payments

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