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The Covid-19 health and economic crisis has expanded and accelerated our adoption of technology at a rate never seen before. We are finding ourselves in a place that might otherwise have taken years
ESG is a Data and AI problem The benefits of incorporating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) within business targets are well understood by companies and regulators, and especially investors....
As Banks and Insurance firms have already embraced Data Lakes for their Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning capabilities, it is important to look for continuous Return on Investment on the pl...
Quantitative easing (QE) programs, i.e. purchase of bonds by Central Banks, have been used to inject liquidity in the economy. Yet studies show that less than 10% of generated liquidity by investors e...
The Bank of England (BoE) is postponing its climate stress tests, which have been previously well regarded as a ground-breaking initiative to enable in-depth analysis of the impact of global warming o...
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an unprecedented economic contraction, hitting SMEs first due to their structurally limited solvency. Banks, even when backed up by State guarantee, are unable to...
With the word "tech" in Fintech, there is automatically a strong focus on technology in this sector. As a result, we tend to think that the biggest cost of a Fintech company is in building a...
Why care about sustainable finance? ‘Sustainable’ is a buzzword right now: but why pay attention and what is all the fuss about? If you are a treasurer who aspires to make corporate life socially and ...
The new decade demands a more focused outlook to building economic moats. Up until a time, ‘product and pricing innovation’ were the popular means of differentiation and competitive advantage among th...
Banks today are looking beyond ‘product and pricing innovation’ for differentiation and competitive advantage. The new aspiration is to champion the trifecta of Customer Experience (CX), Omnichannel e...
In the banking industry, the core system contains vital records for the business. It is the beating heart of the operation, so its “life expectancy” had better be built for the long haul. McKinsey est...
“Every company, investor, & bank that screens new & existing investments for climate risk is simply being pragmatic” - Jim Yong Kim (Former President, World Bank) As per Prudential Regulation...