Digital Payments: An Explosion of Emerging Opportunities
By Deborah Baxley, Financial Services Enterprise Industry Consultant at Teradata Digital payments players have massive amounts of data..
FINANCE
All Posts
Is compliance to PSD2’s SCA a bridge too far for B2B merchants?
By Pat Bermingham, CEO, Adflex According to the European Central Bank, 79% of all card fraud in 2018 occurred online from Card Not Pre..
BUSINESS
The tech transition in Aviation
By Captain Nadhem, the General Manager of Alpha Aviation UAE The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered one of the most disruptive periods on..
TECHNOLOGY
Tomorrow’s Finance: The Latest Innovations in Open Banking
By Leon Muis, Chief Business Officer at YTS For the banking sector, standing still is the same as falling behind. Innovation ha..
BANKING
Mark Wright – Apprentice Winner NOT TOWIE
With the beauty of hindsight, would you have still auditioned for BBC’s The Apprentice to launch Climb Online? When growing up, I alwa..
BUSINESS
Finance teams have been left in the dark on the real cost of working from home
By Carlo Gualandri, Founder and CEO of Soldo 2020 has been one of the toughest years for finance teams on record. Although the end is ..
FINANCE
Know Your Customer – let’s make this easy
By James Adie, VP of Sales, EMEA, Ephesoft If you work in the financial services sector, you’ll know that a customer’s decision to ch..
BUSINESS
5 tips for financial fitness in 2021
By Jeannie Boyle, Director & Chartered Financial Planner EQ Investors As a turbulent 2020 ends, the New Year is an opportune time ..
FINANCE
Finance firms must ensure they fix data fundamentals
By Wayne Parslow, Executive Vice President for EMEA, Validity Faced with more legislation than most other industries, finance companie..
FINANCE
How much do I need to save for retirement?
By Fabian Taylor, senior associate and chartered financial planner in Nelsons’ wealth management team, works out how much money ..
FINANCE
Voice Quality Matters: Quarter of Employees Working From Home Still Experiencing Regular Connectivity Issues
-Survey of 1007 SMEs in the UK by Spitfire Network Services Ltd reveals pain points for employees working from home- -27% experience f..
TECHNOLOGY
Companies that don’t upgrade their financial processes this year will get left behind
By Anthony Venus, CEO of Yaypay Accounts receivables (AR) is often a misunderstood department. Not only is AR all about financial oper..
FINANCE
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Sommet Education launch Hospitality Challenge Pitch
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Sommet Education launch Hospitality Challenge Pitch – a series of online discussions focusing o..
BUSINESS
Crafting a Business Continuity Cybersecurity Plan
Ensure you continue serving customers through chaos with a business continuity cybersecurity plan By KC Sreeram, Vice President, Cloud..
TECHNOLOGY
2021 Predictions: Operational Resilience Takes Center Stage
Breaking down barriers between Risk and Business Continuity By Brian Molk, Fusion Risk Management What a year! Simply put, the global ..
BUSINESS
Four steps to mastering financial agility
By Tim Wakeford, Vice President Product Strategy, EMEA Financials at Workday Agility is fast-becoming priority number one for finance ..
FINANCE
Navigating the Impact of Post-COVID Realities for MiFID II
By Martin Taylor, Deputy CEO and co-founder at Content Guru When the Revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and new Market..
FINANCE
Accounts Payable departments lag behind in AI automation
according to new survey from Ephesoft Two-thirds of accounting departments still process invoices manually: only 15% are fully paperle..
FINANCE
2021 Predictions: Realising the Value of Payments Transformation
By Simon Wilson, Co-Head, Payments at Icon Solutions It has been said that prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the ..
FINANCE
Allianz Benelux Taps into Modern Data Management to Combat Fraud and Foster a Positive Customer Experience
Data expert Amy Hodler examines how one of the world’s largest financial services companies has successfully employed graph technology..
BUSINESS
A new vision for the accounts receivable department
By Colin Sanders, Senior Business Executive, Onguard The need to maintain the smallest possible DSO levels has risen to prominence in ..
FINANCE
The finance industry – A look at trends and predictions for 2021
By Tim Blok, CTO, Onguard The wholesale shift towards remote working has proved to be one of the many challenges that has stood in the..
FINANCE
Adding value to your organisation by attracting top Gen Z finance professionals
By Hannah Wright, Director, Sage People From a financial perspective COVID-19 has indisputably flung many businesses off course – part..
FINANCE
Get Britain building again’, UK’s Labour sets out growth plan
By Gabe McGloin, Head of Business Development EMEA at Verifi 2020 has been an unprecedented and testing year for many businesses, cons..
BUSINESS
Thwarting financial crime at every level with the cloud
By John Edison, Global Head of Financial Crime and Compliance Management Products, Oracle Financial Services Financial crime has never..
TECHNOLOGY
The financial services industry needs to get serious about cyber security in the Covid-19 era
By Anurag Kahol, CTO at Bitglass In the Covid-19 era, cyber risks are ever-increasing. Not only has there been a massive acceleration ..
TECHNOLOGY
Explainer-Paris freaks out over bedbugs ahead of Olympic Games
By Harel Tayeb, CEO of Kryon Systems. It’s difficult to imagine a more tumultuous year than 2020. The pandemic crisis that wreaked hav..
BUSINESS
The new year will bring new consumer attitudes with it
By Ed Whitehead, Signifyd managing director, EMEA Vaccines are rolling out around the world and bringing with them realistic hope that..
LIFESTYLE
Securing a new era of collaboration in financial services
By Dave Henderson, Co-founder at BlueFort Security Kitchen table trading is a notion that would have seemed laughable to many financi..
BUSINESS
A year in property: Google searches reveal what buyers were looking for this year
Regulated property buyers, Good Move have analysed Google Search data to reveal what potential buyers were searching for this year co..
INVESTING
How technology is helping to reduce loneliness among the elderly
By Phil Marshman, founder and CEO of Sentai It is estimated over 2 million elderly UK residents will suffer with loneliness by 2025, w..
LIFESTYLE
2021: The Year of the Global Workforce for British small businesses
Borderless talent & people management will be in play in a post-COVID world UK small businesses can start recruiting and managin..
BUSINESS
What’s in store for banking in 2021?
By Laura Crozier, Global Director of Industry Solutions, Financial Services at Software AG Looking ahead to what is in store for the b..
BANKING
Left out of a loved one’s Will? You may be able to claim under the Inheritance Act
By Sangita Manek, partner in the Dispute Resolution team at Blaser Mills Law A general principle under English law is that a person ha..
LIFESTYLE
How a British brand catered to HNWIs can maintain its position within the global luxury sphere, and even grow, in these current circumstances
By James Pawle, Chairman of Signature Staff We are witnessing a very interesting time for the luxury goods and services sector as a wh..
BUSINESS
How Finance Leaders Can Equip Their Team to Tackle Change
By Robert Douglas, Europe planning director at Workday Adaptive Planning In the face of economic turmoil, agility has taken on a new m..
FINANCE
Could AI hold the key to business recovery?
By Xavier Fernandes, Analytics Director at Metapraxis, the financial analytics firm 2020 has been an unpredictable year, bringing vola..
BUSINESS