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Can fintech and banking play nicely together? Although traditional banks might have once eyed fintech companies with concern or suspicion, the stance of traditional financial service providers seems t...
Gold has been in a peculiar state on the market for quite some time now, and many investors seem to believe that the trend is going to continue in full force in the coming months and even years. It’s ...
There will be no return to ‘business as usual’. The COVID-19 pandemic has seen CFOs and business leaders across HR, supply chain, and sales make difficult decisions that balanced short-term choices wi...
Quantitative easing (QE) programs, i.e. purchase of bonds by Central Banks, have been used to inject liquidity in the economy. Yet studies show that less than 10% of generated liquidity by investors e...
As digitalization has transformed businesses the ever-present threat of fraud has grown exponentially. However, banks and their users are increasingly realizing that using chat platforms to manage and...
Will the crisis result in the rise or demise of the 4th Industrial Revolution? In its April World Economic Outlook, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects a decline in global growth in 2020 o...
A UK business could be eligible for a Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS), as set out by the UK Government. However, it appears that despite the Government’s best intentions, this sc...
As technologies such as 5G, IoT and AI are rolled out across industries, old business models are being overturned and new ones created, all in the name of progress. Even the most established industrie...
The value of a business-focused ERP implementation is often underestimated, and more often than not this is due to a lack of understanding of what this investment means for streamlining businesses pro...
In discussions around fintechs, we often discuss various financial services but taxation is often left out of the conversation. While the benefits of fintechs that cover the unbanked are unanimously c...
It is widely believed that we only use 10% of our brain, but science has without doubt disproved this fact. However, it is easy to see why we would believe it. We often find ourselves failing to achie...
In the last 12 months, CFOs, particularly in the UK, have been forced to count the pennies when it comes to budgeting in an era of political and economic uncertainty. As we move into 2020 we expect, o...