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Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

Intelligent Automation Is the Customer Service Differentiator For Banks

Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Automation, Blockchain, Tokenisation, Machine Learning - banks are struggling to work out which technologies are most suitable for their needs and which they should prioritise in order to get the most out of their investment. In some ways, this has always been the case with technolog...

/ai Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

EU’s Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive: what the crypto-asset sector needs to know

The EU's Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (“5AMLD”) will subject certain participants in the crypto-asset sector to regulation for anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) compliance purposes. While it most crypto-asset companies will not be ready to comply by 10 January 2020 (the date EU member states are required to...

/regulation /crypto The future of Payments in Europe

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

How Can Banks Bring Business Credit and Lending Services into the 21st Century?

The history of credit and lending to business customers dates right back to Mesopotamia when the very first payday loans were used by farmers and the code of Hammurabi defined how the interest charged on silver loans was to be regulated. In more recent times, technologies including online lending have been as transformative as those first laws stam...

Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

What trends will shake up the Banking Tech sector in 2020?

In the past year, we’ve seen technology play a huge part in shaping the banking industry landscape, from emerging fintechs to new solutions facilitated by Open Banking to the latest AI tools. With such progression happening throughout the sector, we are sure to see more disruptive trends emerge in the new year. So, what can we expect? Challengers ...

/retail Trends in Financial Services

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

BANKS ARE UNDER PRESSURE TO REDUCE FRICTION IN CROSS-BORDER PAYMENTS - BUT HOW?

For commercial banks, a nagging issue is how to improve cross border payments. Compared to domestic payments they are more expensive, cumbersome and take longer to carry out. But despite banking technology coming on leaps and bounds, why do they remain such a costly headache? The root cause is down to the disparities between financial regulation a...

/payments Transaction Banking

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

Commercial Banks need to Step up their Game on Client Service

In retail banking, a bank only has one customer (or two) per account. In the corporate scenario however, there are so many more stakeholders for each account which makes service excellence far more complex. When customers are international, achieving excellent client service also comes with geographical challenges such as different currencies, lan...

/ai Customer Service 2015-2019-2025

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

Traditional banks face up up-hill struggle with business customers

A businesses strategic success is often underpinned by the services and reliability of the bank that serves their organisation. Until now, traditional banks have continued to lead the way. In fact, a survey recently conducted by Pega on 340 businesses that use credit and lending services reported that traditional banks would be the first choice f...

Trends in Financial Services

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

Sibos 2019: What Were the Key Takeaways?

This year, we were lucky enough to have Sibos hosted in London. But, with all of the biggest names in banking and finance under one roof last week jostling for ‘air time’, what were the cut through messages and ideas that really hit home? Here are my five main takeaways I think are really set to make an impact on the future of finance. Rationalisa...

/sibos Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

Are Open Banking Partnerships All They’re Cracked Up to Be?

When Open Banking and the open APIs it allows came on the scene, it presented a huge opportunity for financial institutions to broaden the type of services on offer their customers. As a result, a primary way banks are choosing to diversify their offering is by partnering with third parties who have products relevant to their customers. But do the...

/sibos Open Banking

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