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Banking: What It Takes to Be Customer-Centric

Five industry experts share their opinions on why customer-centricity has become a strategic necessity for banks.

SS&C Announces 1H2021 SS&C Advent Product Updates

The April 2021 release leverages best-of-breed technology, offering clients forward-looking technology to streamline reporting, enhance efficiencies, and provide greater accounting functionality to optimize their business operations.

WealthTech Talks: From Agile Development to Agile Business

Agile was designed to emphasise flexibility through the project lifecycle, allowing teams to react quickly to new insights or changes in the project scope.

Are the cost barriers-to-entry for wealth platforms falling?

Although still a challenge, as technology catches up with market requirements on both the client and provider side, wealth firms are now well positioned to introduce or add a platform without ‘breaking the bank.’

Zurich IAM and fintech launch daily tradable crypto strategy

Belvoir is an independent asset manager from Zurich and Speedlab is a fintech from Cham.

How big a toll will digital insurance services take on traditional premiums?

As customers renew their policies with more data-driven offerings, US$140 billion of current insurance revenues could shift from traditional to tech-enabled insurance products, including behaviour-based insurance for vehicles and smart homes.

EU takes lead on AI laws

Netflix’s stalling growth, UiPath IPO, Apple ransomware attack

France becomes first EU country to introduce a digital travel certificate

French citizens who have taken a Covid test will now receive a text or email from the lab with a document featuring a QR code, which can be scanned to upload test results (both PCR and antigen) directly to the app.

Banks enhance UX by accelerating investment in digital technologies

Industry analysts predict the pandemic will only help these new, digital trends become a reality faster.

Banca Sella and Workinvoice form open banking partnership

The collaboration between Banca Sella and Workinvoice will provide the bank’s corporate customers with customer centric convenient solutions to finance their working capital.

Banco Santander migrates 60% of IT infrastructure to the Cloud

Santander is also using cloud to support the development of its most disruptive payment services with PagoNxt, a new, autonomous cloud-native company the bank has created.

IntellectEU launches AI platform for 'hyper-personalisation' in wealth management

Traditional asset managers aim for a minimum capital requirement of 200,000 to 300,000 euros for which personalized investment advice is provided.

Aegon Asset Management selects Clearwater SaaS

Clearwater’s solution will help Aegon AM streamline their data, investment accounting and reporting globally.

HSBC adds live chat to robo-advice platform

Live chat will be available Monday to Friday from 8am-8pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 9am-5pm.

Tales From The Crypto

Are cryptocurrencies finally moving from fad to fundamental asset type? We take a look at why you might want to get involved, and the risks to steer clear of.

London-based wealthtech Bite Investments bags funding for its alternative investment platform

“It is a testimony to how the financial industry and investor community are gravitating toward alternative investment opportunities, as well as digitalisation and its transformative value.”

Transact posts highest-ever quarterly inflows

Compared with our second quarter last year, our previous highest, gross inflows increased 27 per cent.

EU Banking Trade Group Presses The Issue On Instant Payments

The European Payments Council (EPC) is a nonprofit organization that advocates for banks as they integrate new payments technology and other issues

FNZ loses appeal over CMA decision to block merger with GBST

FNZ has failed to convince the Competition and Markets Authority to reverse its order that it must sell off rival investment platform GBST following an appeals tribunal hearing.

City of London calls for 'paradigm shift' in tech at banks

RegTech refers to the emerging use of technology to streamline and cut compliance costs at financial firms, such as for reporting data on market transactions to regulators and spotting crime.

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