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Trends in Financial Services

A community to discuss the future of financial services and any other interesting trends, strategies, ideas, views.

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Twelve powerful wealth management trends. Twelve opportunities in 2021. Are you ready?

After a turbulent year businesses are looking for some bulletproof guidance and inspiration, wealth management is no exception. There is no doubt that the Covid-19 has changed the world for ever, but let's not make the pandemic a scapegoat for the woes of asset and wealth management organisations. Prior to the pandemic, the wealth management sect

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Paul Shumsky

Paul Shumsky Technology Advisor at Entrepreneur

FinTech In The Middle East: 2021 Forecast

The Middle East is one of the world's most heterogeneous regions, spanning three continents and 21 countries, with a population of close to 600 million. It is a culturally, politically and economically diverse region that also encompasses the six Arab states that are members of the Gulf Coordination Council. This diversity is reflected in the vast...

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Mustafa Aktaş

Mustafa Aktaş Product Management Payment Systems Platform Vice P at BKM

FAST and Easy Addressing System

Realtime payments have been a hot topic in payments world for the last two decades. It’s because even if the current RTGS systems allow the funds to be transferred between parties they do not finalize the transaction in realtime which is a critical need in todays world as the daily life is becoming faster and payment relations need immidiate resul...

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Joris Lochy

Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever

Universal trends - Common over all industries?

The last few years I have done quite some market studies for potential new business ideas, mainly in the Fintech, banking and insurance industry, but also in the IT, FoodTech, horeca and mobility sector. Such an exercise typically starts with identifying the trends in the market, i.e. how the market is evolving, as this is key to ensure your busine...

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Andreas Hobbelin

Andreas Hobbelin Head of AML & FCP at ZTL PAYMENT SOLUTION

Are Nordic financial institutions really compliant with US sanctions?

To answer this, one most likely need to go deep on all financial institutions (FI), however, what if one would ask some simple questions to begin with? Lets start with the following; Are you screening your clients against US sanction lists? Most would answer Yes Are you screening your client’s counterparties against US sanction lists...

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Daire Ferguson

Daire Ferguson CEO at AvaTrade

Social trading: the latest way to trade?

As of 2019, the average daily social media usage of internet users worldwide amounted to 144 minutes per day, up from 142 minutes in the previous year. Given the whirlwind year that 2020 has been, with so many people stuck at home, it seems likely that the most recent data will be even higher. Social media provides a useful way for us to keep in c...

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Thomas Pintelon

Thomas Pintelon Head of Strategy at Capilever

More flexibility in business loans, now more than ever

In a previous blog on whether "credits are not too commoditized" we shared some thoughts on how banks can differentiate more based on offered credit services rather than just interest rate. The blog mainly focused on private purpose loans, but similar trends and needs exist for businesses/SMEs. In this blog we won’t focus on large corpor...

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Kamal Misra

Kamal Misra Senior Director, Head of Banking at Capgemini Invent India

Recalibrating wealth management through 4 Ps - products, platforms, participants, principles

2020 has been a year fraught with a wild goose chase for fiscal sanity. As the global economy grapples with a massive instability owing to the Covid 19 pandemic, the Financial Services (FS) sector, in particular, seeks to trudge off the beaten track to rediscover value and substance. Leading banks around the world are undertaking restructuring and...

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Freddie McMahon

Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd

Digitised ESG enables broader and transparent corporate governance

Environment, Social and Governance metrics are here to stay. The ESG investment market has surpassed USD 30 trillion. Governance needs better ways to measure corporate behaviour. ESG metrics measure corporate behaviour and sustainability. ESG metrics is a shift from intangibles to tangibles. Achieve holistic governance using ESG and fina...

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Farah Miller

Farah Miller CEO at Helixtap Technologies

Cloud services kickstart the digital era for commodities markets

In August, the S&P Dow Jones Indices, which monitors the 30 companies that make up the Dow Jones, announced Exxon Mobil (XOM), Pfizer (PFE), and Raytheon (RTN) were getting the boot before the market opened on August 31. The three companies that replaced these historical titans were Salesforce (CRM), Amgen (AMGN) and Honeywell International (H...

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