Crypto investors step up risk management after last year’s meltdowns
By Christopher Burke, CEO, Brickendon In my experience, there are two primary challenges when it comes to managing and running office ..
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Looking beyond the payments price tag
By Rob Straathof, CEO,Liberis Group The race to the bottom is an age-old problem that we, as financial professionals are all too famil..
BUSINESS
Fighting Fraud in the 2020’s
By Sune Gabelgård, Head of Digital Fraud, Intelligence & Research at Nets, unpacks the likely evolution of payment card fraud and ..
NEWS
Finance transformation with analytics
By Laura Timms, Product Strategy Manager, MHR Analytics Finance transformation is all about improving the overall value that finance p..
FINANCE
How to free yourself from business energy debts
Businesses face plenty of challenges in the current economic climate. They need to ensure they remain competitive enough to attract n..
BUSINESS
5 Countries You Need To Have An Offshore Account In
By James Turner, Director at company formation specialists, Turner Little, The current unstable political and economic situations hav..
NEWS
Top Tips For Protecting Your Assets In 2020
How often do you think about how you can make more money versus how you can protect what you’ve already got? Essentially, anyone with..
INVESTING
Checking out the goods gets easier with SCA Delegation
By Ralf Gladis, CEO and co-founder of Computop Retailers had accepted that with the Payment Service Directive 2 (PSD2) regulations, th..
BANKING
A Fast-Track Route to Updating Legacy System Code
By Emil Eifrem, co-founder and CEO of Neo4j Legacy systems are usually large in terms of both their code base and functionality, whic..
TECHNOLOGY
Battling uncertainty is the key to property investment success
By Javed Khattak As we draw the the end of 2019, the property market has shown clear signs of slowing down, leading many investors to ..
INVESTING
Robots Will Do More for Banks Than Simple Cost Cutting
Will Davenport explains why Robotic Process Automaton (RPA) is a ‘must have’ tool for contact centre managers in streamlining processe..
BANKING
Will Hong Kong Remain The Jurisdiction Of Choice For Offshore Banking?
Hong Kong has traditionally been seen as a tax haven and the financial hub of Asia, if not the world. The island is well-known for its..
BANKING
A 2020 ‘perfect vision’ for the financial services sector: what will your bank do for you?
By Doug Gross, CEO at NGDATA It’s been an exciting year in the banking sector. Along with innovation being pushed along by the industr..
BANKING
Mail Services an Emerging Vector for Financial Fraud
By Abigail Showman, Tactical Monitoring Analyst, Flashpoint Threat actors are not shy about using a legitimate means to satisfy their ..
FINANCE
Over two-thirds of consumers do not understand how their data is used
Over half (58%) of consumers want long term relationships with brands, but there might be a personalisation pitfall One in three (3..
TECHNOLOGY
OMV Petrom makes largest crude oil discovery in decades
By Ben Revill, Business Consultant at Xpedition Everything you think you know about customers’ experiences with money has changed. Th..
BANKING
How SD-WAN can help financial services secure data & improve CX
By Paul Vidic, Director, Certes Networks In this current digital age where customers expect businesses to be available and contactable..
TECHNOLOGY
Making the case for cybersecurity investment
By Spencer Young, Regional Vice President of EMEA at Imperva 2018 turned out to be a significant year for cybersecurity with breaches ..
TECHNOLOGY
10 ways automation has changed the role of the CFO
By Magali Michel, Director, Yooz The role of the CFO has changed radically in recent years. Significantly affected by the large-scale ..
FINANCE
5 Common Mistakes Around Accounts Payable Automation
By Magali Michel, Director, Yooz These days, automation is an indispensable tool for businesses looking to increase productivity and a..
TECHNOLOGY
6 Expert Tips to Turn Your Photography Passion into a Business
Turning a hobby into a career is a common aspiration among today’s workforce. “Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your l..
BUSINESS
Innovate or Die: What the UK and the Western Powers Can Learn from China
In the last five years, China has cemented itself as one of the world’s leading innovators. At least that is according to the World In..
BUSINESS
UK taxpayers compare the stress of filing self-assessment return with undergoing medical and dental surgery
HMRC received over £70,000,000 in late fees alone from people who missed the self-assessment deadline for 2017/18 in 2019 A survey co..
BUSINESS
Sustainability: Get Used to the New Normal
By Vincent Manier, CFO, ENGIE Impact Once considered an added bonus, sustainability has become the new business imperative. This new ..
BUSINESS
Oracle beats quarterly revenue estimates on cloud services demand
By Rene Buhay, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at leading AV manufacturer AVer Europe, gives his tips on setting up the perfec..
TECHNOLOGY
The security experience tug-of-war
By Ross Sleight, Chief Strategy Officer, Somo Do you think you’re likely to fall victim to bank fraud? If you’re between the ages of 1..
BANKING
‘Smishing’ is a new ‘virus’ plaguing big business – Conversational Commerce to the rescue!
By Jeroen van Glabbeek, CEO at CM.com As one door closes, another inevitably opens. The battle to lock out fraudsters and scammers is..
BUSINESS
Forget the funnel: Financial marketing must become a virtuous circle
By Doug Gross, CEO at NGDATA Digital-first challengers have disrupted the old, cosy club of High Street banks, harnessing the power o..
FINANCE
Payment security compliance declines – only 1 in 3 companies globally make the grade
Verizon’s 2019 Payment Security Report highlights why compliance matters, and offers measures to combat the downward compliance trend ..
BANKING
Make time to reshape the finance function with automation and machine learning
By Tim Wakeford, vice president, financials product strategy, EMEA at Workday Automation and Machine Learning (ML) are powerful tools ..
TECHNOLOGY
Could the ‘cashless society’ mean the end of the classic bank run?
By Mathieu Saint-Cyr, Managing Director, Head of Asset Management, GMG For most of modern history, national and global economic crises..
BANKING
How UK banks can draw inspiration from across the pond
By Ramesh Ramani, Head of Banking & Financial Services Europe, Cognizant It is a challenging time for UK banks, with an increasin..
BANKING
Amazon, Netflix…banking. Would a subscription-based model fend off challenger banks?
By Mark Grainger, VP Europe at Engage Hub It is forecasted that mobile banking is set to be more popular than visiting a high street b..
BANKING
AI will never replace jobs in the property market
By Tom Shrive, CEO of askporter Though Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic for businesses right now, it has so far failed to ..
TECHNOLOGY
The Importance of XY Data in PCB Assembly
By Jonathan Plummer, Managing Director of Electronic Manufacturing Solutions PCB assembly is a precise and complex job. Over the year..
TECHNOLOGY
Offshore Banking: Breaking The Taboo
It’s not what you think. Offshore banking is often slandered, and most commonly associated with tax evasion. But this begs to question..
BANKING
Sibos 2019 – A first for London and a first for Zhejiang province, China
This year at Sibos 2019 a trade delegation from Zhejiang province in China arrived in London, marking the first time a department of c..
BUSINESS