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Challenger banks: Ensuring trust in your email 

Challenger banks: Ensuring trust in your email 

By Paul Wilson, Product – Risk Based Authentication, AppGate With nearly 300 billion emails being sent every day in 2019, the use of e..

Virtual Meetings – The big mistakes that can make online communications fail

Virtual Meetings – The big mistakes that can make online communications fail

For the majority of financiers, virtual meetings are now the new normal. But making virtual business work for your company isn’t alway..

How trust can protect your wealth in tough times

How trust can protect your wealth in tough times

By James Turner, Director, Turner Little.  The future belongs to those who plan for it, and when it comes to wealth management, succes..

How should banks approach our new reality?

How should banks approach our new reality?

By David Donovan, EVP of Financial Services Publicis Sapient  Prior to a few weeks ago, our ways of working fell into two categories: ..

Financial Reporting to the Rescue for County of Berks

Financial Reporting to the Rescue for County of Berks

The County of Berks needed to find a financial system capable of seamlessly integrating its complex systems and large network of accou..

The Evolution of the Tech CFO

The Evolution of the Tech CFO

By Gavin Fallon, General ManagerUK, Nordics & South Africa Board International Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) have traditionally ..

Covid-19 – Cash Flow and Revenue

Covid-19 – Cash Flow and Revenue

By Lynton Buxton, TALL group “The coronavirus pandemic is a public health emergency. But it is also an economic emergency. We have nev..

Coronavirus and your pension: 4 top tips from Punter Southall Aspire

Coronavirus and your pension: 4 top tips from Punter Southall Aspire

By Alan Morahan, Managing Director, Employee Benefits at Punter Southall Aspire Since January 2020 until now, we have seen a lot of ac..

The case for cashless

The case for cashless

By Dave Murphy, Managing Partner, Financial Services – EMEA & APAC, Publicis Sapient As the Bank of England weighs up the in..

Removing the Month-End Headache in Financial Reporting 

Removing the Month-End Headache in Financial Reporting 

By Tiffany Newkirk, Financial Solutions Manager at SplashBI  Month-end is a stressful and dreaded time for many accountants and financ..

The race to scale up automation in financial services

The race to scale up automation in financial services

By Terry Walby, founder and CEO of Blue Prism Cloud  As financial services organizations look ahead to the new decade, they will be a..

Working from home in times of crisis

Working from home in times of crisis

By Rene Buhay, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at leading AV manufacturer AVer Europe  In times of crisis, remote working is i..

Changing for the Better – a New Era for Finance and Accounting

Changing for the Better – a New Era for Finance and Accounting

By Hugh Scantlebury, co-founder and CEO at Aqilla  Business practice has evolved over the years to place analysis at the heart of just..

Is Hong Kong’s financial status at risk

Is Hong Kong’s financial status at risk

By Granville Turner, Director of Turner little Hong Kong has traditionally been seen as a tax haven and the financial hub of Asia, if ..

Don’t let compliance trip you up: how tech can ensure you’ve tied up your contracts 

Don’t let compliance trip you up: how tech can ensure you’ve tied up your contracts 

By Mike Skelly, Chief Financial Officer at AbacusNext For finance professionals, remaining compliant is a crucial part of the job—and ..

Choosing the correct technology for your meeting room

Choosing the correct technology for your meeting room

By Rene Buhay, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at leading AV manufacturer AVer Europe  As with the design of rooms, there are ..

Gaining workplace equity

Gaining workplace equity

By Tim Oldman, CEO, Leesman As the war for talent rages on, the financial sector finds itself fighting on multiple fronts. First and f..

Office Workers Waste More Time on Slow Tech Than They Spend on Holiday

Office Workers Waste More Time on Slow Tech Than They Spend on Holiday

Working with technology could be detrimental to productivity in the workplace, costing businesses more then they are worth. Image In a..

Mercury FX boosts financial crime management capabilities with TruNarrative platform investment

Mercury FX boosts financial crime management capabilities with TruNarrative platform investment

By Mike Harriss, ,Head of Commercial Channels at TruNarrative,  London-headquartered global currency specialist Mercury FX has investe..

Top 5 Ways Your Business Could Benefit from a Team Breakfast

Top 5 Ways Your Business Could Benefit from a Team Breakfast

By Hannah Waters, Whether you agree or not, breakfast is commonly championed as the most important meal of the day. Yet, thanks to bus..

Financial considerations when embarking on a self-build project

Financial considerations when embarking on a self-build project

By Sandro Heitor, Founder of Trio. When exploring your options for renovating a property, or perhaps building from scratch, it can be ..

Don’t let compliance trip you up: how tech can ensure you’ve tied up your contracts 

Don’t let compliance trip you up: how tech can ensure you’ve tied up your contracts 

By Mike Skelly, Chief Financial Officer at AbacusNext For finance professionals, remaining compliant is a crucial part of the job—and ..

Seventy-Three percent of the C-suite state that increasing visibility into network and application performance will drive business innovation 

Seventy-Three percent of the C-suite state that increasing visibility into network and application performance will drive business innovation 

Over 80% of C-Suite, business and IT decision makers believe that digital performance is critical to business growth  More than 1,700..

5 Uplifting Entrepreneur Quotes to Overcome Setbacks

5 Uplifting Entrepreneur Quotes to Overcome Setbacks

By Maham Azam, Henley Training Associates Success is rarely ever on a linear path. Sometimes there are ups, sometimes there are downs,..

Fighting the threat within

Fighting the threat within

By Adenike Cosgrove, Cyber Security Strategist, International at Proofpoint.  Cybersecurity professionals spend much of our time focus..

Traditional Banks Threatened by Diminishing Customer Loyalty

Traditional Banks Threatened by Diminishing Customer Loyalty

Solution: Creating the Enterprise of Tomorrow through Hyper-personalization, Legacy Transformation, Open Banking  By Amit Dua, Preside..

P27: What’s next for Nordic Payments?

P27: What’s next for Nordic Payments?

By Peter Larsson, Principal Solutions Consultant for Real-Time Payments, Covering Europe and North America, ACI Worldwide.  The Nordic..

Does the ‘Monzo effect’ mean banks will need to rethink brand building?

Does the ‘Monzo effect’ mean banks will need to rethink brand building?

By Mark Chamberlain, Managing Director at Kantar The past few years has seen a whole new style of banks emerge, including Monzo, Starl..

Too Big to Fail  

Too Big to Fail  

By Peter Newton, Managing Director, Paul Chymiy, Co-Head of US operations and Darren Fortunato, D2 Legal Technology. The January 1st 2..

Financial Recruitment Trends to Look Out for in 2020

Financial Recruitment Trends to Look Out for in 2020

By Howett Thorpe, a finance recruitment specialist based in Surrey.   Staying up to date with the latest financial recruitment trends ..

Are we headed towards a Banking as a Service revolution?

Are we headed towards a Banking as a Service revolution?

By Madhur Kumar Jain, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Solution Consulting, SunTec Group Customers today expect the same expe..

C-Suite collaboration is key to moving the financial services sector into the new era of digital transformation

C-Suite collaboration is key to moving the financial services sector into the new era of digital transformation

By Nick Gold, founder and Chief Executive of Speaker’s Corner  Responsibility lies with the C-Suite to construct a digital transformat..

India’s aerospace suppliers see upside in parts-making from record jet orders

India’s aerospace suppliers see upside in parts-making from record jet orders

By Carolyn Corda, CMO, ADARA Financial brands, and particularly credit card businesses, used to lead the way when it came to customer ..

BUSINESS

Small businesses run out of cash before they run out of potential

Small businesses run out of cash before they run out of potential

By Rob Straathof, CEO of Liberis Small businesses are the engine of the UK economy. They are a powerhouse of unique and varied organisations, spannin..

A guide to building business resilience in the financial services sector

A guide to building business resilience in the financial services sector

By Chris Huggett, VP EMEA, Sungard Availability Services  Thanks to the UK’s new Open Banking initiative, the scale of IT problems wit..

Cryptocurrency and Blockchain offer financial inclusion to the unbanked

Cryptocurrency and Blockchain offer financial inclusion to the unbanked

By Mike Rymanov, CEO at DSX. 1.7 billion People don’t have access to a bank account. That shocking figure was released by the World Ba..

Launching Speed Boats from Cruise Ships: How incumbents can take on fintech challengers

Launching Speed Boats from Cruise Ships: How incumbents can take on fintech challengers

By Eugene Danilkis, CEO, Mambu  Digital technology has changed financial services.  It has facilitated innovation, increased competiti..