01/22/2020
What Do Human-machine Partnerships Mean For Workers?
Be aware that the traditional job classifications that we all grew up with will begin to change fairly radically towards the end of the next decade.
Comment & Analysis
01/21/2020
Three Top Trends In Wealth Management For 2020
The most visible trends are the rise of intergenerational wealth, and the growing number of high-net worth women.
01/21/2020
5G – on the cusp of a new cycle
After several years of investments, regulatory implementation and competitive bidding, 5G deployment is finally accelerating.
01/21/2020
Davos 2020: Greta Thunberg is saving the planet AND reshaping the global investment industry
Her comments at the elite meeting in the Swiss mountain town came just before U.S. President Donald Trump – a global warming sceptic – was due to make a keynote address.
01/20/2020
Fintech in South Africa in 2020 – what can we expect?
AlphaCode is the Rand Merchant Investment Holdings (RMI) incubation, acceleration, and investment initiative that identifies, partners, and grows early stage financial service ventures.
01/20/2020
Reputation and customer confidence depends on integrated security infrastructure by James Somerville Smith
Banks have always been a major target for criminals, and as methods of attack evolve, so must the controls used to protect both people and assets.
01/17/2020
National financial planning group calls for segmentation of services
Firms need to segment their services so that clients have a choice of service levels and a delivery method to suit their needs.
01/17/2020
Intelligent cloud and edge: Ideal combo for UAE SMEs
For Dubai, which saw a 40 per cent SME share in GDP in 2009, the contribution stood at 47 per cent in 2016. SMEs had also created 52.4 per cent of new jobs, up from 42 per cent in 2009.
01/16/2020
Agility and Scalability: 5 Trends Driving Wealth Management Tech Choices By Boris Bykhovsky
Boris Bykhovsky is a Senior Director of our Solutions Consulting group specializing in SS&C Advent’s global asset and wealth management solutions.
01/16/2020
Facebook Accelerator Startups in Nigeria raises over $500,000 in investments
So far in the programme, the startups have been introduced to multiple venture capitalists and corporate executives and also matched with advisors within the CcHUB Global Advisory network.
01/15/2020
What Businesses Need To Know About Hybrid Cloud
As governments and businesses race to take advantage of cloud computing, they are navigating current and future data regulations, as well as how to make the most of existing IT infrastructure.
01/15/2020
UAE to save AED11 billion through Blockchain implementation, Dubai future foundation and world economic forum whitepaper reveals
The findings published in the white paper shed light upon core requirements across both technical and non-technical drivers of blockchain deployment success
01/15/2020
FCA RDR/FAMR evaluation update
We have commissioned qualitative research on how consumers interact with the market.
01/15/2020
Wealth management in the 2020s: “It will be necessary...to push for innovation through analytics”
Below is a Q&A with Chacon, who spoke about his year as the bank’s Global Wealth leader, what he learned, and his outlook for the wealth management sector in the 2020s.
01/14/2020
Are Corporate Actions Being Treated Fairly? by William Rouse, Contemi
At a time of unprecedented change, when recurring demands are made on firms’ data management, processing and reporting capabilities, nobody wants to add to their operational burdens.
01/14/2020
Making financial planning and portfolio management easier by Focus Solutions
Why tech integration is not to be feared but embraced
01/14/2020
Hong Kong Funds Eye Singapore Offices to Dodge Protest Woes
Any acceleration in asset managers actually moving some of their business from Hong Kong could add to the economic woes.
01/13/2020
Why South African banks still use SMS one-time PINs
If an attacker has compromised your online banking credentials, they will then be able to access your OTP verification code if they also gain access to your number.
01/13/2020
Challenger bank hype will result in better products, says Edison Partners
But despite the risks of an over-saturation of the market, the net effect will be to push the boundaries of product innovation, she argued.
01/10/2020
LHV Becomes The First Bank To Provide FinTechs With Access To Instant Pound And Euro Payments
Faster Payments is directed towards fintechs and financial intermediaries, enabling them to use real-time pound and instant euro payments by just one easy integration with the LHV Connect API.