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5 Key Takeaways From the Finance Sector’s Digital Transformation Revolution

5 Key Takeaways From the Finance Sector’s Digital Transformation Revolution

By Chintan Jain, the Director of Product Marketing at Kissflow Cutthroat competition, complex regulations, and changing customer behav..

Sterling holds firm after UK jobs data muddies rate outlook

Sterling holds firm after UK jobs data muddies rate outlook

By Amanda Cooper LONDON (Reuters) – The pound held broadly steady on Tuesday, as gains following UK employment data were offset ..

2023 Finance Predictions 

2023 Finance Predictions 

By Venkatesh Varadarajan, Partner, Financial Services, Infosys Consulting     Banking on a switch    The switching trend w..

What Financial Institutions Will Be Like In 10 Years

What Financial Institutions Will Be Like In 10 Years

By Martin Hartley, UK Managing Director of emagine, a management and technology consulting firm operating from 24 location..

What is inheritance tax share loss relief?

What is inheritance tax share loss relief?

      By Peter Baxter, Chartered Wealth Manager at BRI Wealth Management Where the present value may be lower t..

Top 4 (Unexpected) Benefits of Remittances

Top 4 (Unexpected) Benefits of Remittances

By Jairo Riveros, chief strategy officer and managing director of the U.S. and Latin America at Paysend The reliance on remittances co..

BIS warns of $80 trillion of hidden FX swap debt

BIS warns of $80 trillion of hidden FX swap debt

By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has warned that pension funds and other ‘non..

ECB’s Makhlouf expects 50 bps rate hike in December

ECB’s Makhlouf expects 50 bps rate hike in December

(Corrects first paragraph to say rates ‘may have to move into restrictive territory’, not ‘would have to’) By ..

Stocks fall as strong U.S. payrolls muddies rate bets

Stocks fall as strong U.S. payrolls muddies rate bets

By Sinéad Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) – Equities took a dip on Friday while U.S. Treasury yields climbed as investors bet on a more..

Euro zone bond yields rise after U.S. jobs data

Euro zone bond yields rise after U.S. jobs data

By Alun John LONDON (Reuters) – European government bond yields rose after Friday data showed U.S. employers hired more workers ..

Irish corporate tax boom breaks more records in November

Irish corporate tax boom breaks more records in November

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland took in more corporate tax in November than it used to collect in entire years a decade ago, as a rec..

Financial Services technology development in 2023

Financial Services technology development in 2023

  By Peter Theunis, Head of Payments EMEA at Endava The COVID-19 pandemic showed the importance of technology development to meet cu..

5 Ways Lenders Can Attract The Younger Generations

5 Ways Lenders Can Attract The Younger Generations

It doesn’t matter if someone is a senior sorting out retirement or a teenager buying their first car. Finance is a world that is alway..

6 Ways to Finance Your Dream Vacation

6 Ways to Finance Your Dream Vacation

You’ve decided to go on a vacation, you want to go on ice cave tours such as offered by guidetoiceland.is, and the only thing that’s h..

Attacking Banking and Fintech Fraud Head-On Through AI-Infused Strategies 

Attacking Banking and Fintech Fraud Head-On Through AI-Infused Strategies 

By Carol Hamilton, Chief Growth Officer at Provenir In all sectors, and especially in the financial services sector, the..

Three Ways Data Unlocks Business Value for Financial Organisations 

Three Ways Data Unlocks Business Value for Financial Organisations 

    By Rinesh Patel, Global Head of Financial Services, Snowflake  The financial services industry is in the mi..

Thomas LR Griffiths’ top 10 strategies for US tax planning

Thomas LR Griffiths’ top 10 strategies for US tax planning

Thomas LR Griffiths is a tax advisor and consultant specializing in US expatriate tax matters. Thomas explains the top 10 strategies f..

How to Bring Immediacy Back to the Supply Chain With Faster Payments

How to Bring Immediacy Back to the Supply Chain With Faster Payments

    By Adam Steenhard, VP of Corporate Strategy at Dwolla   Today’s supply chain is in complete disarray. As transportatio..

DevOps: The Secret Tool that’s Transforming Financial Services

DevOps: The Secret Tool that’s Transforming Financial Services

  By Tim Johnson, CloudBees A decade from now, financial services organisations and operations are going to be a far..

The Future of Open Finance

The Future of Open Finance

  By Jacob Ideskog, CTO at Curity   The financial sector has been transformed by the innovation and new technologies..

ECB could slow rate hikes, but bond run-off should start soon, Knot says

ECB could slow rate hikes, but bond run-off should start soon, Knot says

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank may slow the pace of interest rate hikes but should soon start running down its ..

How finance leaders can turn the inflation challenge into opportunity

How finance leaders can turn the inflation challenge into opportunity

Q&A with Varun Dewan, Director and Financial Reporting Advisory practice lead at Protiviti UK As inflation soars, the ..

Let’s get fiscal – How to understand R&D Tax Claim Eligibility

Let’s get fiscal – How to understand R&D Tax Claim Eligibility

Accountancy firms are increasingly recognising the significant potential of providing their clients with an in-house R&..

High streets remain an important factor for people choosing where to live – property investors on alert

High streets remain an important factor for people choosing where to live – property investors on alert

New survey data  reveals that despite the impact of the pandemic, social distancing regulations, changing shopping habits, and cost o..

The digital finance revolution: empowered consumers turn digital to protect financial security

The digital finance revolution: empowered consumers turn digital to protect financial security

By Julia McColl, Chief Product Officer, Chetwood Financial For many today, it seems harder and harder just to get by. We’re in the sec..

Ten years down the line: predicting the future of FS

Ten years down the line: predicting the future of FS

By Monica Hovsepian, Financial Services lead, OpenText Despite the static nature of the industry, for generations, many cu..

Explainer-Bracket creep, fiscal drag: how inflation warps the tax take

Explainer-Bracket creep, fiscal drag: how inflation warps the tax take

By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) – While households struggle to cope with rocketing prices, the inflation spike is good for the t..

Why teaching your children financial literacy from a young age will set them up for success

Why teaching your children financial literacy from a young age will set them up for success

By Marcus de Maria, Founder, and Chairman of Investment Mastery As the world we live in becomes more entrepreneurial, chil..

Holding a mirror up to the finance industry on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)

Holding a mirror up to the finance industry on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)

By Rani Khalon, DEI Engagement Consultant at employee engagement consultancy Forty1 Ask yourself, are you actually carryin..

Why Make Fintech Products Accessible For All?

Why Make Fintech Products Accessible For All?

    By Jordan Richards, Founder and CEO of RCCO  Fintechs and financial bodies have a moral duty to ensure their digital pro..

Bobby Kotick Leads Activision Blizzard Through Economic Turmoil

Bobby Kotick Leads Activision Blizzard Through Economic Turmoil

Bobby Kotick is acutely aware that the video game industry isn’t entirely recession-proof. For the first time in years, video game sal..

Lear Capital Founder and Chairman Kevin DeMeritt on Inflation: Now and Then

Lear Capital Founder and Chairman Kevin DeMeritt on Inflation: Now and Then

Economic expert Kevin DeMeritt weighs in on how the federal government has made a number of moves in the past to rein in increased inf..

Future of the Finance Industry

Future of the Finance Industry

By Dr.Hassaan Khan, Head of School of Digital Finance, Arden University With the emergence of AI and blockchain, the futur..

European stocks hit six-week high on hopes for rate hike slowdown

European stocks hit six-week high on hopes for rate hike slowdown

By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) -European stocks rose on Tuesday and the positive market sentiment was set to continue on Wall ..

Improving customer experience and profits with embedded payments

Improving customer experience and profits with embedded payments

Stuart Tarmy By Stuart Tarmy, Global Director, Financial Services Industry Solutions at Aerospike When you order a loaded ..

Monte dei Paschi’s cash call 93% covered so far despite low shareholder take-up

Monte dei Paschi’s cash call 93% covered so far despite low shareholder take-up

By Valentina Za MILAN (Reuters) -Italy’s Monte dei Paschi di Siena said its up to 2.5 billion euro ($2.5 billion) capital increa..

Factbox-Governments act to ease inflation pain

Factbox-Governments act to ease inflation pain

(Reuters) – Pandemic-related disruptions to global supply chains and the knock-on effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine have ..