Managers of Wealth Fintech

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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’

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.

Ethereum: The transformation that could see it overtake bitcoin

Ether is currently worth in aggregate just shy of US$500 billion (363 billion).

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.

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.

How Africa can ride the growing wave of climate tech investment

Despite this gold rush, however, activity is yet to echo through Africa.

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.”

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

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.

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.

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.

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