Stress testing: Turning an obligation into an opportunity
Challenges can be mitigated through greater automation and enhanced data management.
Industry Comment
Life in the time of COVID-19: learning to share
“Humans. So many good ideas. So many failed ideals.”
Cyber-incidents are on the rise: What can your firm do to defend itself?
Senior management should ask themselves five key questions.
Open banking: A move towards greater or lesser transparency in banking?
Will it reduce or increase information asymmetry between consumers and finserv companies?
Finovate Podcast: Episodes 21-30
The Finovate Podcast is a short, interview-based podcast featuring conversations from fintech’s elite innovators and influencers. For more than a decade, the global event series has brought together tens of thousands of people from across the fintech spectrum to see cutting-edge technologies. Now you can find out what goes on behind the scenes, as key influencers and […]
Who owns your data?
The answer to competition is not to block access to customer data.
Do not fail fast, learn fast instead
Being advised to fail and do so at speed, as if that, somehow, was not a relative thing anyway.
Can fintech eliminate credit discrimination?
Even the strictest laws can’t eliminate the inherent impression the credit manager forms.
The global unbanked shoppers
The gap between the population of the banked and unbanked is continuing to broaden.
The closet of shame
Everything that goes wrong in a bank, big or small, gets put neatly away in the closet of shame.
Ask the expert: why do fintechs fail, and how can I improve my company’s chances of success?
Looking at the basic elements for success for any fintech – and indeed, for any start-up or high-growth business.
Three digital transformation lessons wealth management firms can learn from luxury fashion brands
Build online trust with customers and identify ways to replicate the offline experience.
Dissecting banking technology trends in 2020
This year will be one of continued disruption and evolution in banking technology.
The financial services technical “Grand Design”
A financial services organisation must plan and design what it will look like.
The witches are coming
Our togetherness is our greatest legacy to a world that can and should do better for the next generation of humans.
Achieving reconciliation maturity will be easier in the decade of data
Financial professionals feel more comfortable entrusting their data to the cloud.
Three top tips to combat visual hacking
Make it hard for screens to be viewed, consider installing privacy filters and other points.
How APIs overcome the challenges of digital transformation
No transformation is pain-free.
The trade in human beings: How financial institutions and tech can have an impact
Banks in particular can do a lot to curb sex trafficking.
What is office politics, anyway?
For some, politics is about winning the battle. For others, it’s wining the war.
Ask the expert: what’s the best market to launch my fintech?
The reasons fintechs struggle to crack mature markets and four key considerations for expansion.
“Pale, male and stale” tag still dogs financial services industry
Three steps to break the cycle and achieve genuine diversity and inclusion.
Decentralised versus centralised finance: Impacting a global market
Maybe a hybrid of both systems will be the future of finance.
The risk of siloed IT procurement
Why it pays to say no to the silo.
Oh to be saved of doubt and false hope
No one person should be enough to make another worthy of a future they can’t themselves lose sleep dreaming of.
From data to decisions: The rise of AI in retail banking
But first, banks need to de-silo their data and create a single data universe.
Fintech M&A: Prioritising growth and resilience
There is still runway for further consolidation.
British & European fintechs set sail for the US
A wave of British and European fintechs are seeking a foothold in the US finserv market.
Work life imbalance
Let’s hear it for imbalance. Being on the back foot is when you can kick the hardest.
Robotic process automation: A real boon for financial services organisations
It’s a great tool for automating repetitive back office processes & increases efficiency.
Ask the expert: why is Account Based Marketing important and how can I do it effectively?
Get your sales pipeline moving in the desired direction with ABM.
Cybercrime in financial services: Work together to win the war
We need is a smart, flexible way of working together anticipate and respond to threats.
The end of technology…
It’s time to drop the words “digital” and “tech”.
The digital transformation bod’s infinite playlist
The soundtrack to the cycle of emotions from the day you get the job to the day you deliver results.
Fintech’s diversity performance last year and predictions for 2020
A digital approach to inclusion training can help fintechs with smaller budgets.
Part two: Who is best positioned to provide marketplace banking?
Three strategies for standing out in a market: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus.
Payments security: A year in review
Majority of the largest breaches to be reported in 2019 were caused by poor security protocols.
What the “decade of the data breach” can teach us
Organisations can simply no longer trust that an online user is who they claim to be.
Living in the not knowing
Building the future is not about what you know. It’s about what you dare believe is possible.
Three steps to effectively automating accounts payable
The best automated AP solutions can integrate all kinds of information and content formats.
