05/10/2020
Your roadmap toward ESG performance
Five steps to get started on your journey and install a foundation for long-term success.
Comment & Analysis
05/10/2020
Free self-care tips that can help you manage stress during the coronavirus pandemic
Connecting with others even online with a video chat or on the phone.
05/10/2020
Can AI be taxed? by Withers
Defining AI can be a challenging task due to the broad nature of what falls under its rubric.
05/09/2020
A new playing field: Open Finance and wealth management
Some of the key benefits the FCA are reviewing include greater competition, improved innovation, better decision-making and the reduction of friction.
05/07/2020
From Chaos to Catalyst by Paul Roehrig
Surf the pandemic shockwaves to keep your business relevant.
05/06/2020
Artificial Intelligence at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial – Current Initiatives
We begin our coverage of MUFG’s digital transformation initiative with their near-term plans for changing their tech and data infrastructure.
05/06/2020
Cyber security: an investment theme more topical than ever before
Governments support the demand for cyber security solutions
05/06/2020
700m Africans lack access to bank, mobile money accounts
This is why consumers have been turning to mobile banking in such numbers.
05/05/2020
The end of the world as we know it: Banking’s new reality, Simon Wilson, Icon Solutions
Banks and financial institutions have critical, positive, immediate roles to play in supporting consumers and business, while facilitating the repurposing of entire economies and welfare systems.
05/05/2020
Saxo Markets launches Regular Savings Plan featuring managed portfolios curated by BlackRock
Saxo’s Regular Savings Plan is different in that people can directly invest into managed portfolios rather than a single stock or ETFs.
05/05/2020
Video banking on the rise during Covid-19 pandemic
This chimes with figures from video banking vendor POPi/o, which tells American Banker that calls between its clients and their customers that result in transactions or service have more than tripled since the crisis hit.
05/05/2020
Cloud computing to rescue 700m unbanked Africans – Report
Says regulators hold critical key to meeting target
05/04/2020
Learning from SJP’s use of Salesforce
SJP’s digital proposition is further advanced than that of many IFA firms
05/04/2020
Digital Banking, Online Payments, and Software as a Service for Financial Institutions are the Fastest Growing Fintech Sectors in Cambodia
Clik Payment is another high-potential Cambodian Fintech firm that’s focused on creating a payment processing service, which aims to fix the nation’s fragmented payment sector.
05/04/2020
Meet the women driving change in Dutch fintech
Things are also moving in the right direction in the European startup and venture capital scene, where more and more women are founders or hold decision making roles.
05/03/2020
UAE sees 78% surge in contactless payments: report
The service aligns with this consumer trend and can be used to make safe, quick, and easy purchases from almost any location.
05/03/2020
Investing In Africa During A Pandemic: 3 Tech Sectors That May Be “Recession-Proof”
COVID-19 and economic catalepsy Early projections made out the year 2020 to be the “winning shot” the world so desperately needed. But things have unraveled rather quickly; the world’s now facing a biting recession. Fast rewind to Janu
05/01/2020
Ecobank records significant increase in customers adoption of digital channels
Ecobank Pay, our payments platform saw a 61% increase in merchant acquisition numbers to 195,000 merchants.
04/30/2020
Harnessing technology convergence to manage climate change
Scaled investments in trusted climate solutions will help drive development of global standards and help fight climate change.
04/30/2020
What Asia-Pacific Can Learn From EU’s Open Banking Initiatives
Regulators are determining how to change these standards and where they apply for best results in a way that keeps both FIs, third-party providers and consumers as safe and secure as possible.