Managers of Wealth Fintech

700m Africans lack access to bank, mobile money accounts

This is why consumers have been turning to mobile banking in such numbers.

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.

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.

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.

Cloud computing to rescue 700m unbanked Africans – Report

Says regulators hold critical key to meeting target

Learning from SJP’s use of Salesforce

SJP’s digital proposition is further advanced than that of many IFA firms

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Taking A Data-Driven Approach To Meeting CU Members’ Banking Needs

CUs that are adapting to an online-only banking reality thus also have to keep an eye out for more fraud schemes

AWS machine learning head joins Clearwater Analytics as technology chief

Cloud computing and machine learning expert Warren Barkley joins data aggregation and portfolio reporting platform Clearwater Analytics.

How technology can save advisers time and money

Systems have developed in such a way that rather than sucking up time and money, they are becoming intuitive and faster, enabling ever more varied clients to be triaged more quickly.

Saudi banks need to accelerate digital transformation plans amid COVID-19 disruptions

KPMG in Saudi Arabia has published its analysis of COVID-19 impact on the banking sector and the potential countermeasures to cope with the new normal, based on the results of a high-level survey and discussions with C-suit executives in the sector.

Financial Advisors Accelerate Shift to Holistic Financial Planning, Receptive to Support from Asset Managers and Technology - Broadridge Survey

Fifty-one percent of surveyed advisors stated that there will be an increased focus on holistic financial planning within their practices moving forward.

Heather Hopkins: Lack of tech integration is an ‘industry disgrace’

Co-operation is needed to fix the financial planning technology industry’s data woes, says NextWealth managing director Heather Hopkins.

Banking's New Reality: Getting Remote Work Right (Part 1 of a Multipart Series)

Here are the common missteps banks should avoid to successfully enable remote work and digital operations, during the pandemic and beyond.

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