04/21/2020
Digital Transformation: Business Leaders Still Struggling to Cope
What you don't know can hurt you. When it comes to digital transformation, many top enterprise executives may have to learn this lesson the hard way.
Comment & Analysis
04/21/2020
Fintech boom threatened by slowing economy
The rise in the use of fintech apps comes amid a general growth in the use of digital technology in a bid to adapt to life in lockdown.
04/21/2020
Cloud-computing solutions can help significantly to reduce banking costs in Africa
Part of the cost problem is that financial institutions in Africa are so much smaller than elsewhere – the biggest bank in Africa (SBSA with assets of $148 billion) ranks 296th globally; most banks in Africa have assets of less than $5 billion.
04/21/2020
Three Insights From The Forrester Wave: Digital Wealth Management Platforms
An enterprise wealth management platform that offers solutions to optimize client experience and increase financial advisor productivity across the entire investor lifecycle.
04/21/2020
Stay home, be productive - Vontobel
“This change is unprecedented,” says Stuart Templeton
04/20/2020
Broadridge expects strong shift to online fund sales
As online distribution of mutual funds gains momentum, retail banks must strengthen their online strategies to compete with new rivals.
04/20/2020
Are Banks and the Capital Markets Ready to Embrace Blockchain?
How could DLT improve the traditional finance industry, and what adoption challenges lie ahead?
04/20/2020
Google, Facebook And Apple Need To Kill Bitcoin
Bitcoin can't be seized by your bank and bitcoin's supply can't be diluted.
04/19/2020
New opportunities for fintech companies
Using their unique assets and skills
04/19/2020
SoftBank Vision Fund faces billions in debt payments that could eat into cash, analysts warn
The unusual structure of the Vision Fund provides guaranteed payments to investors including Saudi Arabia's wealth fund
04/17/2020
Keep moving and motivated with #cando
We’re creating a series of active and wellbeing videos, working with the fantastic TeamedUp and their Olympic and Paralympic athletes
04/17/2020
How Banks Can Detect Money Mules in the Time of COVID-19
Most money-mule operations rely on establishing informal ties to the global financial sector.
04/16/2020
How to make digital meetings feel like face-to-face
It’s fairly straightforward to use, and you can send a client a link so they can speak to you and see any documents you’re sharing.
04/14/2020
France Further Its CBDC Experiment For A Digital Euro
It has been made exclusively clear that the test is purely for experimental reasons and will not be continuing in the long run.
04/13/2020
Why Ethiopia closed the door on foreign mobile money firms
This is a difficult question that economists have had to wrestle with and hawk-eyed observers have started peeling back the layers of an onion that has deep roots in political economy.
04/13/2020
A guide to making to most on home working
The joy of today’s technology means that even for the most technophobic among us, it is possible to connect with other people from the comfort of the sofa.
04/13/2020
UPDATE | Vodacom joins banks' executives in donating salaries to Solidarity Fund
Joosub said he believed this was not only the right thing to do, but was crucial to help in South Africa's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
04/12/2020
Enabling Financial Inclusion in Asia
How Smartphones are Revamping the Traditional Credit Scoring Model
04/12/2020
Envision the World You Want to Re-enter After the Shutdown
Apply Lessons Learned During Lockdown to Climate Action
04/09/2020
Lockdown Burnout: An employer’s guide to exhausted staff
At this disrupted time, many businesses and their key staff are working harder than ever to give ‘business as usual’ service.