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Industry Comment
How banks can balance UX and security amid a pandemic
How face-based biometrics and AI can deliver smooth digital onboarding and stamp out fraud.
The great asset servicing cloud migration and its implications
Cloud migration requires a considerable initial spend and some are simply not yet ready to commit.
Making Tax Digital policy changes explained
UK gov’s initiative, Making Tax Digital (MTD), aims to make tax administration simpler.
ROSCA: Is there a potential for entering developed markets?
It matches the needs of rural households thanks to its simplicity and informal understanding.
Unfinishedness, by degrees
If you are looking for principles to navigate unfinishneess by, ask “who”.
Why the world needs synchronised timing
The value of timing provides the opportunity to bolster the very fabric of our vital infrastructure.
Creating a truly cashless society
Why we need open banking to get payments networks up to scratch.
Three ways fintech can confront security and trust questions during rapid growth
Those of us in security understandably tend to lead with the risk factors.
Banks need a single brain
Every bank needs a single brain to anticipate the needs, wants and quirks of every customer.
Six ways financial services will adapt to BigTech in the UK market
BigTech companies excel at giving customers what they want.
The payments superhighway
Why everyone’s talking about cloud-based platform architecture.
The revolution will be regulated
When it comes to digital adoption, the regulator has been the biggest driver of change in the more mature markets.
Making the most of business data and this summer’s mix-tape
Businesses that make the leap from operational to analytical are ones that understand the value of data.
What every employer needs to know about employees returning to the workplace
Advice on the measures employers should take when re-opening their workplace amid COVID-19.
Bond issuance is ballooning
But the process of issuing bonds is unbelievably slow and largely manual.
Banks adapting to post-COVID-19 world overlook power of data
Banks can use data to stand out from the competition and fortify their position.
Magic mistakes and how to make them
Do everything in your power to minimise the avoidable mistakes and the impact of the less exciting omissions.
Containers and PCI DSS: 10 requirements financial services must follow
These requirements can present a challenge to financial services now leveraging containers.
Five predictions for the future of payments
From moving away from cash to points of sale and self-checkout on mobile.
Islamic banks take the lead in adopting fintech solutions
No part of the world has really taken this matter to the next level quite like the Middle East.
Responsible subprime auto lending through AI
This math is at the root of a very basic truth: opportunity is not distributed equally in America.
After divorce comes engagement for banks
For a bank to engage with a customer, they need to go beyond the initial request.
A gift of shoes
Having walked in each other’s shoes you are both a little better at your job now.
How can fintech rise to the new D&I challenge?
If they don’t believe they are part of the problem, nothing will really change.
Timing is everything: launching a bank amid COVID-19
“We never planned to launch a bank during a global pandemic,” says the CEO of Monument.
Four lessons we can learn from the biggest financial technology scandals
From Wirecard and Enron to Bernie Madoff and Parmalat.
Why intelligent reporting is crucial to client retention
Good digital reporting is intuitive and comprehensive.
Lessons for my younger self
Careers and lives barely work to plan. Even if you have one.
Can behavioural banking drive financial literacy and inclusion?
How are banks prepared to promote financial literacy for millennials and especially Gen Z?
Talk like an Egyptian: a brief history of data encryption
Can today’s PKI encryption techniques fill the promise of inherently secure data?
A2A payments set to threaten dominance of online card transactions
A2A payments could be an unintended beneficiary of SCA.
How automation can help insurers build resilience and rebound stronger from COVID-19
It’s a case of ramping up the automated underwriting footprint for the most simple, homogenous policies.
Almost soup
Optimism might get you out of your chair and striving for a better tomorrow, but it isn’t optimism that gets you there.
A search for calmer waters
Businesses across all industry sectors will face three stages over the coming months.
From open banking to open finance
It’s only in 2020 that we see the quality, reliability, and range of APIs connecting to accounts that realise the regulators’ vision.
The roaring 20s: when the asset manager becomes a data manager
Failure to adapt won’t just impact your existing client base’s investments.
How fintech is transforming financial management capabilities for small businesses
Most business-facing fintech tools have adopted usability conventions from consumer-facing apps.
COVID-19 analytics: the lesson for those involved in policy management
Modern data-enabled systems and processes are the key to staying competitive.
Banks must deploy AI with urgency to save SMEs
Projects that would normally take months need to be delivered in days.
