Why do women still think they need to be palatable?
Lack of attention to certain stories inflicts grave damage on how marginalised people tell theirs.
Industry Comment
Looking after the health of your ATM fleet in a futuristic way
Setting a new standard for banking self-service solution performance.
Why fintech needs more mentors
Mentorship, in its many forms, is a powerful force.
Tackling unconscious gender biases in wealth management
Yaela Shamberg, co-founder and CPO at InvestCloud shares her thoughts on gender equality.
Creating communities on International Women’s Day
Stephanie Clarke, SVP at Broadridge, shares her insights on IWD.
Why factoring industry needs fintechs
Fintechs are to factoring companies what bars are to high jumpers.
Diversity & Inclusion Roundtable: How fintechs can go from words to action
Charitable D&I initiative Fintech Finishers joined forces with Captec, Revolut, Mouro Capital and Divido.
Understanding employee experience will give banks a leg up
It makes intuitive sense that happy employees lead to happy customers.
Banking Tech Awards 2020 Winner: Bank BRI & Infosys Finacle – Best Use of IT for Lending
Revamping customer lending through partnerships and back-office change.
“Cloud first” emerging at the heart of end-to-end transformation
81% of FIs future-proofed their technology infrastructure by moving to the cloud, 63.6% reduced cost.
Why the BNPL sector is growing like crazy
There is plenty of room for experiments in BNPL, and many customer segments are yet to be addressed.
Girl boss
Representation matters, for all of us. Represent what is possible, but above all, what is desirable.
Dear Luc: Your most pressing fintech problems solved
In Dear Luc, we answer the questions the industry’s fintech founders are too embarrassed to ask.
London calling
City firms can still access EU market despite no financial services deal.
What makes a successful data partnership?
How to make data monetisation measures an important part of your business strategy.
Regtech: watching personal mobile devices in financial services, but why?
The best policy is one which works. Soft policies, by their very nature, do not work as intended.
Insurance software: choosing wisely
Here’s how to navigate the abundance of insurance tech offerings to choose from.
Supporting business leaders during COVID-19
Pressures have taken a toll on businesses and the mental health of their leaders.
The big fight: banking vs technology companies
In over 30-years of banking, I have never seen a more complex and competitive landscape as there is now.
You called me
How a company treats you through the recruitment process tells you everything you need to know about its culture.
A seven-year-old tells us what we (should) already know about banking
Your customers aren’t seven-year-olds, but they probably want a lot of the same things.
The operational imperative for intraday liquidity management
Intraday liquidity management is not a regulatory tick-box but a vital part of banks’ business as usual operations.
The dawn of central bank digital currencies: will they take over the cash?
The ECB plans to announce whether it will launch the project in the middle of 2021.
B2B financial software marketplaces: the bridge to market transformation
B2B financial software marketplaces connect players across the breadth of an industry.
Learning to safeguard vulnerable customers in a digital world
What’s needed is an industry-wide effort to stamp out poor practice and make services inclusive.
One size fits all
Whatever your reasons for tolerating bad behaviour, that defines you. More than anything else.
Three things banks must do to thrive in 2021
It is the banks who invest now and execute effectively, that will come out on top.
Introducing “it’s a matter of comms”
Welcome to #itsamatterofcomms! A new bi-weekly vlog!
Reimagining the financial system with tokenised barter
Modern blockchain powered barter systems will change the way we view accessing, growing, and owning wealth.
Affirm’s IPO is a wake-up call for banks
Affirm is placing pressure squarely on banks and fintechs to challenge its BNPL market share.
How brands are becoming the banks of tomorrow
To understand what the bank of tomorrow looks like, we must first understand how they developed.
The core wars
This battle is for core banking software, challenging the likes of SAP, Finastra and Temenos.
Not noise
Before obsessively pressing the send button: pause, rewind.
New direction, same destination for ISO 20022
Despite the extra time, there is little scope for market participants to relax.
Boosting economic recovery by harnessing the power of payments
The other significant milestone the UK economy has to handle this year is life beyond Brexit.
How to optimise your digital account opening process
If banks want to start 2021 on the right foot, they can start with these five steps.
Reinvention: the lessons banks can learn from Bowie and Madonna
Madonna or Bowie consistently reinvented themselves to adapt to change and stay relevant.
This “new normal” looks pretty familiar to me
How about we choose a new normal, the one that fixes the fundamental ways of working, not just the tool we use.
Acquiring pricing models
A breakdown of the benefits and challenges presented by each merchant pricing model.
Fintech trends watch 2021: checkouts, wealthtech and SCA
Our resident Gen Z’er, Ruby Hinchliffe, shares her three predictions for 2021.
