10/28/2021
Why investors are now focusing on fintech
There is a lot of private equity interest specifically in financial services businesses with a technology offering.
Comment & Analysis
10/27/2021
Q&A: How tech is shaking up the banking sector
Younger customers are increasingly switching to new mobile banking apps. As Covid-19 accelerates this process, what does this mean for the traditional banks?
10/27/2021
FII: Bank chiefs, CEOs pass mixed verdict on cryptocurrency investment
Saudi central bank chief does not foresee destruction of banking system by digital currencies
10/27/2021
Trends in the Irish market: growth and opportunity
Another trend in the industry is that people expect their funds to work for them, particularly retirement and other retail investments.
10/27/2021
Different digital assets, different monetary policies
This variation helps differentiate digital asset networks from one another – helps frame value propositions - and ultimately provides a basis to inform investment allocations.
10/27/2021
IPT Africa: shaping the future of African payments with frictionless end-to-end B2B transactions
With the establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) there will be increasing opportunities in the areas of trade and investment, as the global economy emerges from the pandemic.
10/27/2021
Innovations are driving banking, financial services
This means that banking has gone beyond the brick and mortar structure and it is imbedded in your customer’s lifestyle journey.
10/26/2021
Automation and Mega Trends in Asset and Wealth Management
Data is the heart of all decision-making, and asset and wealth managers are increasingly looking to data related to sustainability
10/26/2021
Citigroup, Starling chiefs urge caution over the UK’s plans for Britcoin
Britcoin ‘could result in all the balances disappearing from the current accounts of the high street banks’
10/25/2021
What the first bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund means for the cryptocurrency industry
Overall, more than $1.01 billion of shares changed hands, according to Morningstar.
10/25/2021
Ethereum: The transformation that could see it overtake bitcoin
Ether is currently worth in aggregate just shy of US$500 billion (363 billion).
10/25/2021
The UK as a global AI superpower
The Strategy aims to build on the UK’s current position in order to translate the tremendous potential of AI into better growth, prosperity and social benefits for the UK, and to help solve global challenges by using AI.
10/25/2021
NFT market will mushroom and morph and spread far beyond art
In the second in our series on NFTs, the Art Management team catches up with Kenny Schachter, art dealer, artist, curator and critic.
10/25/2021
How Africa can ride the growing wave of climate tech investment
Despite this gold rush, however, activity is yet to echo through Africa.
10/25/2021
6 Questions for Jennifer Wines of Fidelity Private Wealth Management
“Decentralization, to me, means the distribution of power. [...] This ends up activating more people and potential than is possible with centralization.”
10/25/2021
Payments to continue to drive finance M&A in Asia-Pacific
Among other deals, PayPal Holdings Inc. agreed to buy Japanese digital lender Paidy Inc., while PayU Payments Pvt. Ltd. added payment solutions provider BillDesk in India
10/22/2021
COVID-19: Technology Adoption and Adaptation
This rapid technological adoption also changed the way businesses operate. HR transformation is a good example whereby onboarding, training, and salary were digitised to match the workforce realities during the pandemic.
10/21/2021
Digitalisation – the role of hybrid servicing
In the first in a series of blogs on the strategic imperatives driving digitalisation, we’d like to focus on the role of hybrid servicing.
10/21/2021
Transparency, impact and engagement: winning combination for the future of listed asset management according to Hervé Guez in his speech at the PRI Digital Conference 2021
A few months after the SFDR regulation came into force, Morningstar published an initial study in which it estimated that funds classified as Article 9 represented 2.7% of the total assets of European funds, compared with 20.9% for Article 82.
10/21/2021
Why do people invest?
A look at the fundamentals of investor behaviour across Europe and Asia