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Joris Lochy

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

Financial Optimization - Core business of a bank?

You could argue that the main role of a bank is to increase the buying power of its customers, i.e. support their customers in increasing their assets. This can be through credits or investments. Both solutions make purchases possible, which can give a positive return in the future, i.e. an investment is a purchase of a financial product aiming to ...

/retail Personal Finance

Andrew Beatty

Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS

The Race to Real Time: Why the Clock Is Ticking

As the global financial services industry accelerates towards real-time payments, banks must find a way to keep up. Banking expert, advisor and futurist Brett King suggests that “The best service in financial services happens in real-time and is based on customer behavior”. But making the move to real time is not easy, and many institutions face ...

/payments /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

Can Banks Do More to Support Their Customers Through COVID-19?

In the last few decades, it is easy to generalise that banking has been, like most industries, focused on the quarterly, half, and full-year financial results. While this generalisation is unfair, the pandemic has highlighted that more should, and needs, to be done in terms of focussing on the needs of the customer. The COVID-19 pandemic highligh...

/retail /covid-19 Customer Service 2015-2019-2025

Bob Lyddon

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

Unicredit ejects the pilot as it prepares to be stuffed in merger with Monte dei Paschi

Jean-Pierre Mustier is to step down as CEO of Unicredit Group, in which he restored Faith and Hope over the last few years. He baulked at Charity: agreeing a merger with Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) on the terms acceptable to the Italian government. There is a valuation gap of about €20 billion: the Italian government would be wanting about €6 b...

/retail /wholesale

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...

/retail Trends in Financial Services

Anatoly Kaptsan

Anatoly Kaptsan VP & Chief R&D Officer at Compass Plus

Omnichannel banking, a myth or reality

Omnichannel as a concept, is omni-present: it’s something that the industry has been discussing for years, but, particularly in banking, a true omnichannel experience is still a rare, almost mythical phenomenon. For years, financial institutions (FIs) have been working hard to ensure that they offer their customers the multiple touchpoints, such as...

/payments /retail

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

Despite Tightening Purse Strings, 2021 Will See Banks Embrace Technology Investment

At the outset of 2020, nobody in the banking industry could have predicted the chain of events that would unfurl. But it hasn’t all been doom and gloom – this year has seen unparalleled technological advancement that will undoubtedly benefit both banks’ internal operations and their customers. But will this momentum continue over the next twelve m...

/retail /covid-19 Digital Banking Trends

Diederick Van Thiel

Diederick Van Thiel Visionary Board Member | CEO | NED at AdviceRobo | IKANO Bank | Ikano Insight

EAT OR BE EATEN: THIS IS THE POST-COVID CHAMPION IN BANKING!

Looking at the 2020 strategic banking game to detect the winners! The battle on the banking customer has become intense. Therefore, I researched the underlying competencies that drive current and future success in banking. Since September 11th, 2020, I have written a series of 5 blogs that illuminate banks’ differentiation in cost/income strategy,...

/retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Dennis Odiwo

Dennis Odiwo Product Manager at ACI Worldwide

Omni-Commerce Is Heating Up the Merchant Token Revolution

Merchants worldwide have grown increasingly mindful of keeping customers’ sensitive data, such as payment card details, out of their own environments – and tokens seem to be the go-to tool to fill the gap. Processes such as reservations, returns, reporting and rewards typically require confidential data. However, incidents of high-profile data bre...

/payments /retail Digital Banking Trends

Chandan Goel

Chandan Goel Manager-Data Engineering at PublicisSapient

Parallelising with TERADATA - The right way

Background and Motive Data predominantly is core to any and every organisation and so does Data Engineering. Especially in financial/banking industry where data’s availability and its fast processing in timely manner is even more important, from different perspective like customer retention, decision-making and regulatory requirements too. An ask ...

/retail /sustainable BANKING banking on BIGDATA

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