66 Results from 2021, /wealth
Simon Gegen Financial cloud services and wallet solutions at Holla-Tech
Spread betting is a form of foreign exchange trading that involves speculating on changes in the movements of currencies without actually trading them. There are three main components to a spread betting strategy, which are the direction you expect the trade to move in, the size of your bet, and the spread of whatever you're speculating on. Th
02 June 2021 /wealth /markets Personal Finance
Thomas Pintelon Head of Strategy at Capilever
Under increasing pressure from disruptive Fintechs and changing customer expectations, the banking landscape has drastically changed. Over the past 5 years, banking has been transformed from a risk-averse, very conservative sector to one of the fastest moving and innovating sectors in the world. Such innovation can be found anywhere in banking, ma...
01 June 2021 /wealth /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Louisa Murray COO Europe at Railsbank
Discussions around mental health and wellbeing have been thrust into the spotlight lately, and with good reason when you consider the impact of repeated lockdowns and the economic chaos introduced by COVID-19. Managing your money appropriately is undoubtedly a significant source of stress in these strange times. A recent study by Metro’s ‘Mentally ...
01 June 2021 /wealth /inclusion Open Banking
Retired Member
Cast your mind back to the 1990s: Elton John's "Candle in the Wind," and Whitney Houston was belting out "I will always love you"; with schmaltzy films like "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and the gritty "Trainspotting" both of which were runaway box office successes; in the 1990s Margaret Thatcher was a still...
27 May 2021 /wealth /wholesale Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Above image credit to Pixabay There are several factors to consider when choosing investments, including your financial circumstances and objectives and the timing of the investment. While successful investing is often all about having as diverse a portfolio as possible, sometimes you’ll be faced with a straight choice as to what to invest in. If
27 May 2021 /wealth /markets Personal Finance
Andy Boniface Head of Product at GBST
The last year has been a time of great uncertainty for all of us. For wealth managers, the pandemic intensified existing pressures facing the industry through shifting customer expectations, growing competition, continued regulatory change, rising costs, and squeezed profit margins. However, supported by the right technology foundation, enterprisi...
10 May 2021 /wealth
The ship has sailed. Remote working will remain, post-Covid, even in wealth and asset management. The debate now centres around the balance between remote and office working, and the long term effects of each. Schroders was the first London asset manager to take a stance, announcing its decision in August 2020 to offer long-term homeworking. There...
21 April 2021 /people /wealth Capital Markets Technology
James Wooster COO at Glue42
In the prior two blogs of this series, we had introduced the fragmented desktop, and outlined the advantages of using a Desktop Integration Platform (DIP) to solve the problem. In this blog, we look at emerging standards in Desktop Integration and how vendor solutions provide advantages over homegrown solutions. We round out the conversation wit...
15 April 2021 /wealth /devops Capital Markets Technology
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
With interest rates close to 0, people are forced to invest their money to avoid losing buying power (as inflation is considerably higher than the typical interest rate on a saving account or term deposit). As many people do not want to actively follow-up their investment portfolio, most bank customers invest in actively-managed investment funds (o...
15 April 2021 /wealth /retail Fintech innovation and startups
In our prior blog, we had introduced desktop fragmentation, the problems posed by it, and how a Desktop Integration Platform (DIP) can solve them. In this blog we delve further into the architecture and structure of DIPs. Providing a seamless user experience to end-users such as traders, analysts, data scientists, etc. has long been a challenge ow...
13 April 2021 /wealth /devops Capital Markets Technology
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