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Financial Risk Management

This network brings together professionals involved in the oversight and management of their company's financial risks and exposures as well as solution vendors, in order to discuss risk issues including interest rate risk, foreign exchange risk and commodity price risk, among others.

Thomas Pintelon

Thomas Pintelon Head of Strategy at Capilever

4 ways to improve financial fitness

Despite significant efforts by schools and media to give more attention to financial skills, the level of financial literacy in the general population remains low. Basic financial budget management appears very difficult for many people, let alone understanding more complex concepts like the correlation between risk and return, the need for divers...

/wealth /inclusion

Thomas Pintelon

Thomas Pintelon Head of Strategy at Capilever

How banks and insurers increasingly push risks towards their customers

In past blogs we have raised awareness of the lack of tooling for clients to properly manage their finances and associated risks. Personal (PFM) and Business Finance Management (BFM) modules are being developed rapidly and keep getting better, but most of these are still limited to a reporting/dashboarding layer. This allows customers to get bette...

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Thomas Pintelon

Thomas Pintelon Head of Strategy at Capilever

Improving traditional credit scoring with a forward-looking approach

Question: Do you know how much your total committed credit exposure is? Traditional credit registries In Belgium when a natural person requests a credit, banks and credit institutions are obliged to consult the central credit register (CKP/CCP) at the National Bank to obtain the existing credit exposure of the individual and check whether the ind...

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Retired Member 

ESG after COVID-19

ESG awareness has been growing slowly in the past decade, however in the past couple of years there has been a significant shift in the uptake of ESG investing, talks about the ESG philosophies and companies’ fiduciary duty to adopt ESG principles. There is still much more to be done and achieved, but today there is already a wider focus on ESG, ad...

/sustainable /covid-19

Matt Neill

Matt Neill Managing Director at Beyond

How to deliver successful KYC automation

The continued pressure to increase efficiencies within KYC and reduce the cost of compliance has resulted in ‘KYC automation’ becoming a hot topic for the industry. Clients often ask us what their priorities should be, who can help them with the process and what the best practices are for implementation. Here are the 7 key principles I normally sh...

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Nick Green

Nick Green Director at Purple Patch Broking Ltd

New horizons: Credit risk data in 2021

Nick Frazer | December 2020 Changing data usage and significantly increased portfolio risk posed great challenges for risk and procurement professionals during 2020. Now, as businesses reopen and we move into 2021, we will start to see credit providers shifting gears from firefighting to addressing the aftermath of COVID-19. 2021 is expected to se...

/retail /predictions

Keith Stanton

Keith Stanton International Product Manager (Fraud & Risk) at FIS

Covid 19 and the effects on Fraud Prevention - Part 3 - Social Engineering

In my previous blog (click here) I detailed how the Fraud threat landscape for cards has changed significantly, with a reduction in card fraud in some of the major markets as consumers are spending less; and spending online rather than at bricks and mortar retail sites. But that doesn't mean the fraud levels are easing – as while payment fraud is ...

/crime /covid-19

Jesse Chenard

Jesse Chenard CEO at MonetaGo

Brexit uncertainty creates the perfect conditions for trade fraud to rise. Technology has the answer

As Brexit’s final transition date edges closer, Britain’s businesses have warned that they are running out of time to make preparations for trade, should a no-deal be reached. At the same time, the government has warned that there will be a huge amount of red tape for businesses to contend with, whatever deal is struck. Put these factors of unce

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Keith Stanton

Keith Stanton International Product Manager (Fraud & Risk) at FIS

Covid 19 and the effects on Fraud Prevention - Part 2 - Payments Fraud

As I outlined in my previous blog (click here to view), we have seen a rapid movement to card channel payments as cash usage has declined during the pandemic. In the UK, as early as April this year cash withdrawals had declined by 60% (according to the UK Government) - mainly due to a combination of people staying indoors and being unable to use ...

/crime /covid-19

Amita Choudhary

Amita Choudhary Marketing Manager at Princeton Growth Accelerator

Why Technology Will Be at the Forefront of Fighting Financial Crime

There’s been a lot of talk about the link between technology and the financial sector over the last couple of decades, and the synergy between the two is very obvious at this point. However, technology didn’t just make things easier – it also introduced some new problems. Thankfully, it’s also shaping up as the main answer to the big questions loo...

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