1016 Results from /inclusion
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
In recent years, the usage of the term "Financial Inclusion" has risen exponentially. As with any buzzword, it is used and misused by many companies to boost their corporate image and get support from different governments (e.g. subsidies). As with so many buzzwords, the term has become so much overloaded, that it now encompasses a wide ...
10 February 2020 /sustainable /inclusion Financial Inclusion
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
The “gig economy” is growing rapidly. Technology acceleration has enabled businesses like Deliveroo to pioneer its working model in the UK. The increasing number of contractor jobs has risen from 1.3 million in 2018 to 4.7 million and it seems that more industries are shifting to an ad hoc basis when it comes to employing staff. For insurers, this...
10 February 2020 /inclusion Innovation in Financial Services
Bernd Richter SVP - FIS Impact Ventures at FIS
Pension is known in the western world as income at age and what pays the bills, when one retires from his/her job life, what was put aside during work life. But not many actually understand how much is needed to be prepared for age or may be in false hope that state pension will be enough for a living. The EU recently progressed a Pan-European Per...
08 February 2020 /regulation /inclusion Trends in Financial Services
Retired Member
Developments in the digital space are changing the dynamics of the remittance market, driving it on a steady upward curve. According to the World Bank, in 2018, remittances to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) amounted to $529 billion – an increase of 9.6% over the previous year. Global remittances, which include flows to high-income countr...
03 February 2020 /inclusion Fintech
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Trading is a complicated process that requires time, attention and resources. While the gains that come from it is what convinces so many people to dedicate a huge part of their lives to trading, as the industry had gotten bigger and stronger the technology is being used a lot more not only simplify the process for the investors but also to save t...
30 January 2020 /inclusion Financial Inclusion
Tim Scammell Office of the CFO at SAP
Today's executives are facing mounting pressures from a variety of new sources. The Traditional demands of product evolution and revenue generation remain unchanged. However, the wide-ranging ramifications of digitisation are forcing business leaders to evaluate new dimensions, such as customer experience, channel management, IoT, blockchain, and ...
29 January 2020 /inclusion Financial Transformation
Tom Blacksell Managing Director B2B at Experian
Tying to expand any business takes investment, but with smaller businesses often lacking sufficient cash, securing additional funds can be the solution to grow and become more productive. Unfortunately, a lack of financial information can limit a business’s chances of doing this. This is the case for more than 1.6 million businesses in the UK who ...
22 January 2020 /inclusion Financial Inclusion
2019 saw a lot of big companies getting into fintech and trying to develop their own innovations or invest in the right startups across the world. We’ve seen some companies do it right and many do it very wrong. It is a shaky industry in terms of what works and what doesn’t. When companies like Goldman and Sachs decide to go into something that d...
21 January 2020 /inclusion Fintech
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 considered a positive development in the financial field, there’s also the side of fintechs that is threatening to disrupt the current tax reporting s...
16 January 2020 /inclusion Finance 2.0
Jonathan Westley Chief Data Officer, Experian UK & EMEA at Experian
Two years on from the launch of Open Banking in the UK and we’ve seen a wave of innovation which has transformed the way we all manage, move and make the most of our money. Experian is behind many of the Open Banking services you see today, processing approximately 1 in 4 of the successful Open Banking API ‘calls’, when people consent to share thei...
15 January 2020 /inclusion Innovation in Financial Services
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