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Wealth management is transforming faster than most professionals realize because the industry’s customer base is changing. Three trends are driving a paradigm shift in wealth management that will become clear in 2020. The most visible trends are the rise of intergenerational wealth, and the growing number of high-net worth women. For example, the
18 December 2019 /ai /wealth
Chris Holmes Senior Vice President at KAE Consulting
While FinTech start-ups have been showcasing their rapid dynamism and proving themselves to represent a real threat to traditional financial institutions, in recent years, and even months, it has become increasingly difficult not to address the elephant in the room. Big tech companies such as Amazon and Google, have been dipping their toes into th...
09 December 2019
An appropriate time to talk about remittances and their effect on globalisation is right now. According to industry reports remittances have almost overtaken Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as the largest source of foreign capital inflow in low and middle-income countries. As the number of people living outside their country of birth increased f...
09 December 2019 /inclusion
This year’s Enterprise Cloud Index report, reported that financial services outpaced all other industries in the adoption of hybrid cloud reaching 21% penetration today, compared to a global average of 18%. Whether it is purely with the public cloud providers, or more typically in a hybrid cloud model, utilising a mix of private cloud capabilitie...
Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems
In the past year, we’ve seen technology play a huge part in shaping the banking industry landscape, from emerging fintechs to new solutions facilitated by Open Banking to the latest AI tools. With such progression happening throughout the sector, we are sure to see more disruptive trends emerge in the new year. So, what can we expect? Challengers ...
02 December 2019 /retail
Steve Wilcockson Technical Product Marketing at Quantexa
I work in financial services, typically quantitative technology applications. A recent employer of mine was an imagery company, providing satellite and drone-sourced data into finance and insurance. In this heady mix of finance and space, I worked with people from defence, aerospace, geospatial, surveying and satellite communications backgrounds w...
11 November 2019 /ai /devops
Anthony Walton CEO at Iliad Solutions
Immediate Payments, Real-Time Payments, Faster Payments – wherever you are in the world you probably have a term for it, but whatever that is, Real-Time Payments (RTP) is probably spreading faster than any other previous payments initiative. There is good reason for this. RTP offers many benefits and everyone wants to be the first to penetrate new...
05 November 2019 /payments
The Daily Telegraph recently reported that many of the new graduates hired at the Bank of England have accounts with the challenger banks and observed that some incumbent, traditional banks are now building their own digital banks. One reason why the younger generation are attracted to challengers – setting aside whether they are ‘digital native...
04 November 2019 /retail
A businesses strategic success is often underpinned by the services and reliability of the bank that serves their organisation. Until now, traditional banks have continued to lead the way. In fact, a survey recently conducted by Pega on 340 businesses that use credit and lending services reported that traditional banks would be the first choice f...
28 October 2019
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
High Frequency Trading or HFT for short has been around pretty much ever since the financial industry found out what computers were and started incorporating them on exchange floors, big boiler room offices and various other parts of their business operations. The idea is that modern finance is practically impossible without the fast-calculating, f...
23 October 2019 /inclusion
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