01/15/2020
FCA RDR/FAMR evaluation update
We have commissioned qualitative research on how consumers interact with the market.
Comment & Analysis
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.
01/09/2020
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.
01/07/2020
Protiviti publishes 2019 Finance Trends Survey Results
These behavioural changes are critical to execute more, and increasingly strategic, finance priorities while improving their service to internal customers
01/05/2020
More China tech companies eyeing Singapore banks' lunch
Yillion and Hande groups latest known China entrants in race for digibank licence; they're part of bid led by iFast Corp
01/05/2020
China’s Financial Services Industry Is Banking on AI
The banking industry was the biggest investor in AI-related applications, accounting for 70 percent of all market purchases.
01/03/2020
Islamic fintechs becoming ‘global phenomenon’
The study is based on a survey of 180 companies worldwide, half of them fintechs and the others being incubators and accelerators, consultancies, financial institutions and investors, with respondent being based in the UK, Middle East, other Europe, South
01/03/2020
Cryptocurrency May Have Emerged In The Middle East
On the other hand, there are also countries in the Middle East that are trying everything in their will not to let Cryptocurrency enter their nation.
01/03/2020
New opportunities for blockchain use in the insurance industry
Heading into a new decade, the potential this technology has to create significant efficiencies in the handling of payments and customer data is opening up new avenues for opportunity.
01/02/2020
Arab World Slow To Embrace Crypto, But Steadily Picking Up
A key factor when analyzing the industry in the Arab world is how nascent industry adoption works within it: From the top down.
01/02/2020
Successful Wealth Management Firms Don’t Stand Still
First of all, the way we worked with our customers 10 or 20 years ago is not the same as our current approach.
01/02/2020
13 Changes Coming To The Banking Industry
The banking industry is letting go of some of its traditional methods and looking at new and innovative ways to make life easier for customers.
12/31/2019
Can US technology have another good decade? by John Redwood, Charles Stanley
The US Stock market produced the star companies of the western world in the technology area.
12/31/2019
Tencent users report positive wealth management returns
Licaitong, Tencent's wealth management platform which sells mutual-fund and fixed-term wealth management products, said it now has over 150 million users and 38 percent of these are born after 1990.