Managers of Wealth Fintech

What a cashless society will look like

Service providers are rolling out biometric and QR codes to ease the payment process quick

Southeast Asia as a Leader for Instant Cross-Border Payments

These transactions are for people or organizations who look for funds across territories.

Fintech firms look at smaller super funds

Kendall explained that many financial planners were using their own software to make decisions with regards to switching from investment A to investment B, a process that traditionally required additional paperwork.

Broadridge Research: Active Asset Managers Can Meet Rising Demand With New ESG Solutions

Changes in the makeup of the ESG market over the last five years have important implications for asset manager strategies.

Open Banking set to transform finance in the GCC

Gulf Business talks to Wissam Khoury, Head of International at Finastra, on the state of Open Banking in the GCC

Banks must do more to stop financial crime, says deVere

These revelations have prompted deVere, one of the foremost financial consultancies in operation, to declare that banks should “tone down the rhetoric” and instead focus on developing workable solutions for increasing the industry’s legi

Handelsbanken has satisfied customers and the most highly regarded app

The Bank’s rating among corporate customers has climbed by 2.2 points compared to the previous year, to 4.0 points over the sector average.

Managing the evolving compliance landscape facing multinationals

We take a closer look at the findings of the Global Business Complexity Index 2020

Why Advisors Are Still a Long Way From Embracing AI: Schwab, RBC

We’re still “early on in building the business case” for advisors, Schwab managing director Kyle Caffey says.

Business leaders chart path to advance Nigeria’s economic development

He said the theme became pertinent following the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought about technological disruptions in every segment.

Nigeria is Africa’s leader in Bitcoin transfers, transacts $8 million weekly

Data shows that the use of Bitcoin for peer to peer lending in Nigeria is on an astronomical run.

Fintech can democratise opportunities in a cashless society

Kent Mackenzie, Partner at Deloitte, discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has created opportunities for democratised financial systems

Portfolio management: on the crossroads

When major global events of this kind occur, people become very much divided: some are ready to jump at the opportunity to make the best of a crisis, and some other adopt a wait-and-see attitude.

Survey on Wealth Management in the New World

Are we emerging, albeit extremely tentatively, from global lockdown, or are many of the leading economies on the cusp of new lockdowns?

Coronavirus accelerates Nigeria's digital banking push

A new breed of digital banks, without physical branches, say they have had a boost due to the pandemic.

CIOs Wielding More Influence in the Boardroom as IT Spending Surges by $15 BILLION a Week

“To see it scale at basically $15 billion dollars a week, an annualized 20%, was massive”

This upstart Chinese brokerage is now bigger than Credit Suisse

Like the popular Robinhood Markets Inc. app in the US, East Money has found a sweet spot with tech-savvy youth as millions, stuck at home amid the coronavirus, turned to stock trading.

Benefit from Open Banking – it’s all a question of APIs

In the European Union, PSD2 mandates that banks allow third party providers access to accounts at the customer’s request.

The future of tech is female

Artificial intelligence and game technology are advancing by the day – and women are at the forefront of this progress

It’s all about the data: how to prepare for the future of banking

The first lesson learned is that legacy systems and thinking can create barriers, both because data needs to be exchanged between open networks and closed banking systems and because institutions have leaned towards caution and protectiveness in the past.

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