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Greg's blog archive

2018 (2)
Greg Taylor

Greg Taylor

Head of Marketing at Validis
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Bio Fintech marketing lead with a background in data management and financial services.

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Digital Banking Trends

Five reasons to partner Open Banking data with Management Accounts

16 Sep 2018

Understandably, a lot of the buzz that resides around Open Banking disseminates from the belief that great opportunities await the everyday consumer. And I am not one to say this won’t come to fruition, but certainly there is a long road ahead of us. Given my role at Validis, a B2B-focussed Fintech, I’m much more interested in the world of the SME...

Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Why run before you can walk? Digital data assets for SME lending

13 Jul 2018

Designing and implementing a digital strategy for SME lending and deciding what data assets to utilise in doing so is truly staggering. The availability and accuracy of enhanced data assets has come on leaps and bounds in recent years in a period of unprecedented change. However, it is critical to remember that the data strategy is there to serve ...

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Leveraging Data in Commercial Lending

  Thanks Vivek, interesting read. Might be worth us linking up. We provide a digital method to extract standardised accounting data from SMEs and it sounds like you guys do somthing great with that data. Let me know if it sounds of interest. Cheers, Greg

21 Jan 2020 Reply Read article

Why run before you can walk? Digital data assets for SME lending

  Hi @James, when talking about management accounts I mean access to things like the General Ledger and Sub Ledgers, all visible at a trasactional level. Lenders do indeed use those financial inidcators for making credit decisions but we can now give them access to these in practical real time (an exchange can take typically 4-10 minutes). A huge saving over the previous process of compiling records, manual sends etc. Plus, our unique standardisation process means it doesn't matter which accounting platform they are retrieved from, the Lender gets a consistent view. We build 'connectors' (API driven) to extract the information and it does require separate ones for separate packages. Thanks.

16 Jul 2018 Reply Read article

Why run before you can walk? Digital data assets for SME lending

  Hi @Dharmesh, thanks for reading. The advancements in tech have already been made! Head on over to www.validis.com if you are interested to see how cloud-based technology can non-intrusively extract and standardise financial data from accounting platforms. It's all consented to by the data owner, the SME. Thanks.

16 Jul 2018 Reply Read article

Why run before you can walk? Digital data assets for SME lending

  Thanks Ambrish. My background before I moved to Validis was actually in data management and governance, although still on the marketing side. For me Governance is the bedrock that underpins an organisations entire data strategy. In the context of Management Accounts data specifically, the data belongs to the SME and any organisation that has the consent to move or analyse that data should ensure they keep that front of mind. As Open Banking gathers pace, the inclusion of "other" data assets can only add value, in my opinion.

13 Jul 2018 Reply Read article