Managers of Wealth Fintech

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.

5G – on the cusp of a new cycle

After several years of investments, regulatory implementation and competitive bidding, 5G deployment is finally accelerating.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

FCA RDR/FAMR evaluation update

We have commissioned qualitative research on how consumers interact with the market.

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.

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.

Making financial planning and portfolio management easier by Focus Solutions

Why tech integration is not to be feared but embraced

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.

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.

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.

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.

10 Banking Trends for 2020: Stormy Weather Ahead

There’s an argument to be made that 2020 could be the year in which the long post-financial-crisis recovery of the banking industry and the rise of fintechs as major industry players both get blown off course.

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