The key segment to nurture in 2020 and beyond
The biggest challenge may be the paradoxical ways SMBs view their relationship with their bank.
Industry Comment
Trends in banking
Evolving the operational models to deliver faster customer services, cost efficiencies and competitive offering.
Carlsberg Bank – probably the best digital bank in the world
Banks need to identify new segments and go beyond banking
Bad bosses and hardy flowers
Moving away from bad bosses is not good advice, it is essential advice.
Ask the expert: your questions on growing the business answered
How to generate leads and reach the right decision-makers – refining your approach.
Doing smarter, cleaner business: The analytics potential of trade data
Banks’ data-rich future should not begin and end with trade flows.
Is your fintech brand an awkward teenager?
From unpredictable growth spurts and occasional breakouts, to sleeping in.
Wild West to crypto best: How compliance separates cowboys from champions
Major players will be forced into closer collaboration with regulators.
A banker goes a-banking, volume 5: the gift that keeps on giving
The helplessness. The fear. The rage. And the shame.
The cloud journey for market infrastructures
Some steps to ensure cloud-based is successful and meets the approval of regulators.
Secured cards: public relations ploy or financial health builder?
They can be a critical tool for financially vulnerable people.
Declaring time of death and other ways of surviving doing business with big banks
Don’t be afraid to declare time of death when it is true: it is not an admission of defeat.
Ask the expert: your questions on growing the business answered
When is the right time for a founder to take a step back from the business?
Tesla-fy your bank
Will banks ever truly reinvent banking?
Getting to the future: learn, unlearn, persist. Repeat.
But unlearning is the only path to survival. Even if you can’t learn to like that, you learn to value it.
Three lessons traditional banks can learn from their younger siblings
Teamwork, transparency and creating a competitive culture is key.
Big banks are driving fintech to the mainstream
And it’s happening faster than you think!
Something for nothing or the fallacy of ecosystem conversations
Those “big block of cheese” meetings…
Ask the expert: your questions on growing the business answered
My company is undergoing hypergrowth. How can I create a culture for business success?
A banker goes a-banking, volume 4: GDPR for the masses
It is time we gave some respect back to the drops that make the ocean.
Let’s work together
Bank-fintech collaboration should take priority on this year’s Sibos agenda.
Dos and don’ts of sanction screening
Regulators seek to send a strong message to financials if they drop the ball on sanctions screening.
The financial services talent war is fierce: here’s how to draft in the millennials
People at all levels should be given the opportunity and tools to understand themselves at their best.
The Win 10 Rush: How financial institutions can beat the clock to upgrade their PCs
Kevin Flaherty, CEO at BLM Tech reveals the key to carrying off large-scale IT projects.
Innovation as a discipline, not a side show
Rob Galbraith explores why innovation should be more than just your team’s side show.
Uber-izing banks
The secret is not just about being frictionless and digital.
Blackfish, wishful thinking and self-fulfilling prophecies
If you don’t want your organisation to be plagued by self-fulfilling prophecies, don’t create them.
HPE Discover 2019: has the thought of branch transformation pushed you over the edge?
There is none more passionate than the HPE NonStop user community.
Ask the expert: your questions on growing the business answered
What are the main reasons fintechs fail, and how can I avoid them?
Most successful Kickstarter campaigns revealed: is crowdfunding the future of fintech funding?
Kickstarter projects had an overall success rate of 36%, with $4.2bn pledged to successfully launched projects.
Diamond ETF: a gem of a trading opportunity
An asset’s right of passage to the commodity world is becoming an exchange traded fund (ETF).
Humanity 101
Your business, whatever it is, is consumed and paid for by humans. Staffed and delivered by humans.
Uncorking the corporate payments bottleneck
One reader digested Leda’s food for thought and has something to say about it.
Caffeine and angry bankers: the comfort of bad behaviour
A radically different way of establishing authority, managing organisations and measuring success is needed.
Ask the expert: your questions on growing the business answered
How can I better understand and navigate the complexity of the financial services market?
Beware the “finhealth-washing” of financial services
Consumers need help, not slogans. Financial services companies have a chance to do right by doing good.
Killing four myths about open source in financial services
There is great value in the power of open source, from compliance to reducing time-to-market.
The curse of collective Alzheimer’s: dispatches from industry conferences
An industry asking itself the same questions for ten years despite having the answers is an ailing one.
Three old-school self-service strategies to ditch – and what to do instead
The ATM is the only channel that provides cash access anytime, anywhere. Take advantage of its huge potential!
FFIEC – has compliance caught up to security?
Examining the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) compliance controls.
