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Jordan Glazier

Jordan Glazier CEO at Wildfire Systems

Banking on Rewards to Preserve Customer Loyalty

The banking industry is undergoing an identity crisis. It faces a dwindling number of financial institutions, declines in non-interest income; and competition from challenger banks. Customer retention for financial institutions is more essential than ever, making rewards that sweeten the deal with consumers more popular — and more crucial — than e...

/retail Fintech

Marten Nelson

Marten Nelson Co-founder and CEO at M10

How a Regulated Liabilities Network Could Solve the Cashless Dilemma

Central bank digital currencies (CBDC) are often mentioned as a key motivation for the rise of a cashless society. As Sweden’s central bank, Riksbanken, discusses in its paper, The Riksbank’s e-krona project, Report 1: "Today, cash is used to an ever-decreasing extent in Sweden, which has led us within the world of central banking to start con...

/payments /retail Frictionless Payments

Maria Schuld

Maria Schuld Head of Regional and Community Banking at FIS

Upheaval in merger approvals means banks must stay the course to achieve ultimate synergies

Approval uncertainty reigns Financial institution merger transactions are complex and challenging to complete even in the best of times. Mix in the current environment of regulatory delay and uncertainty and you find acquisitive banks face a daunting situation. A quick temperature check of recent headlines showcases the depth of this new challenge...

/retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

Voice AI: how it can be used to reduce fraud

Voice AI has the potential to revolutionise how banks reduce fraud and speed up the resolution of fraud claims. There is agile software on the market with integrated voice AI capabilities, creating opportunities that will allow banks to tackle crime, maintain regulatory compliance and improve customer service. While voice AI is still in its early ...

/retail /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Andrew Ducker

Andrew Ducker Payments Consulting at Icon Solutions

Request to Pay – Where is the Industry Heading?

Request to Pay services – which allow payees to initiate requests for payments within a secure messaging channel – are creating opportunities for enhanced payment experiences. And a recent Icon survey of industry stakeholders, including global banks and payment service providers (PSPs), found that 71% recognise the potential. As attention turns to...

/payments /retail Banking Architecture

Nick Green

Nick Green Director at Purple Patch Broking Ltd

The BNPL data race: How to choose the right data

In 2020, the value of buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) transactions reached £6.4 billion (a 60-70% growth on the previous year). BNPL offerings appeal to both merchants and shoppers so this growth is expected to continue. With the offer of interest-free monthly payment terms, consumers prefer this method of payment to credit cards. However, concerns from...

/regulation /retail BNPL

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Giving people what they want: the tech that will help banks to meet customer demands

Welcome to a new era of customer-centricity. Today, customers enjoy a wealth of options at their very fingertips. They are made more powerful as a result. Hyper-responsive brands such as Netflix and Amazon have driven changes to customer expectations. Financial services providers need to catch up. Technology offers both incumbents and disruptors t...

/retail /sustainable Trends in Financial Services

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7 Unique Features 1099 Workers Expect From Their Bank

If freelancers created a banking app that met their unique needs, what would it look like? We all see the commercials for banks advertising "new ways of banking," yet their innovations seem to be variations on the standard bank account — which also means that there's an assumption that everyone makes money the same way. But not everyone i...

/retail /startups API

Andrew Beatty

Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS

Embedded Finance: Where Banking Services Converge

Embedded finance is becoming a hot topic in banking. While the concept is not new, it has taken on new dimensions thanks to modern technology and innovative applications, and its impact and potential are notable. Embedded finance can be simply defined as “the use of financial services by a non-financial company”. Familiar examples of embedded finan...

/payments /retail Embedded Finance

Chris Principe

Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.

Rotten to the Banks’ Core

Rotten to the Banks’ Core - Mr. Bank, is your core rotten? Do you suffer with manual entries, tickets anyone? Are your internal IT support costs going through the roof? Shut out of the latest Fintech products? Looking like last century? Digital banks blowing you out of the water? At the center of every bank is its core banking system. The core syst...

/retail /wholesale Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

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