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Boosting business growth with pension funds

Boosting business growth with pension funds

By Adam Tavener, chairman of Clifton Asset Management and Alternative Business Funding (ABF) Adam Tavener, chairman of Cli..

How you can make more money online

How you can make more money online

Who doesn’t want to make more money? Peter Watton, from matched betting service OddsMonkey, told us the top ways that we can earn some..

One size does not fit all: customer personalisation in the finance industry

One size does not fit all: customer personalisation in the finance industry

By Brian Brodie is Group Chief Executive at Freedom Finance with 37 years of experience in the personal finance industry. For the past..

The Cost of Buying a Leasehold: Why Can it Cost More in Conveyancing Fees?

The Cost of Buying a Leasehold: Why Can it Cost More in Conveyancing Fees?

In both England and Wales, the two primary types of property ownership are leasehold and freehold. The difference between both, in sho..

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The Impact Of Late Payments On SME

The Impact Of Late Payments On SME

By Jade at Total Processing, a payment solution supplier Late payments may just seem like a small annoyance to most, but, the detrimental effect it’s ..

Common Uses for Bridging Loans and What You’ll Need to Get One

Common Uses for Bridging Loans and What You’ll Need to Get One

There is nothing worse than a great property investment failing because you didn’t have your finances sorted. Therefore, a bridging lo..

Modernising Credit Assessment For Mortgages – Finding Real Insights To Create Real Opportunity

Modernising Credit Assessment For Mortgages – Finding Real Insights To Create Real Opportunity

By Mahesh Raghavan, Senior Principle – Financial Services Digital Consulting, Infosys  Modernising credit assessment for mortgages– Fi..

Improving Enterprise Security in the Financial Sector

Improving Enterprise Security in the Financial Sector

By Gerald Beuchelt, CISO, LogMeIn Cybersecurity is a critical concern within any industry, but especially the financial sector which h..

Bringing financial services into the fast lane

Bringing financial services into the fast lane

By Tom Holliday, Financial Services Consultant at KCOM Perhaps no other sector has been more visibly disrupted by technology than fina..

How to implement a holistic digital marketing strategy in finance

How to implement a holistic digital marketing strategy in finance

By Kevin Joyner, Director of Planning and Insight, Croud A great advertising campaign has an effective slogan, provides a useful solut..

How Can Stream Processing Act As A Catalyst For Innovation In Financial Services?

How Can Stream Processing Act As A Catalyst For Innovation In Financial Services?

By Robert Metzger, Co-founder, Engineer Lead at Ververica Financial organisations across the world are going through an extensive digi..

Why sustainable cyber resilience matters in the financial sector

Why sustainable cyber resilience matters in the financial sector

Author: Dirk Schrader, CISSP, CISM, and CMO at Greenbone Networks Banks, alongside the stock market and other financial companies, are..

Content Services: The Foundation of Digital Transformation for Financial Services Firms

Content Services: The Foundation of Digital Transformation for Financial Services Firms

The road to digital transformation in Financial Services (FS) has been a long and winding one. For the most part, banks and other FS p..

Are duplicate payments Kryptonite for accounts payable?   

Are duplicate payments Kryptonite for accounts payable?   

In most businesses the credibility of the accounts department is built on trust and stakeholders’ confidence in the output from the de..

An API-first approach will revolutionise Financial Services

An API-first approach will revolutionise Financial Services

Carlos Oliveira, CEO at SPINR Whatever business you’re in, you know perfectly well the new realities of commerce: customers expect sop..

SMCR – Are you Ready?

SMCR – Are you Ready?

By Bruce Penson, Managing Director of Pro Drive IT  If there were a major cyber security breach at your company, what would happen? Ch..

Finance Industry Is “One Court Case Away” from Claims Management Company Onslaught, Quadient Warns

Finance Industry Is “One Court Case Away” from Claims Management Company Onslaught, Quadient Warns

Increased Awareness of Data Protection Will Spark Major Claims by 2020, Customer Experience Specialist Predicts  After targeting PPI r..

Three reasons why finance professionals need to get to grips with big data

Three reasons why finance professionals need to get to grips with big data

Digitisation is a major driving force for change in finance departments, transforming financial processing and altering the role of fi..

How factory-style engineering creates a future to bank on

How factory-style engineering creates a future to bank on

By Ed Fowler, Head of Digital Engineering and VP at Virtusa One of the biggest emerging trends in the financial industry over the past..

Clarity and structure: the key to GDPR compliance in finance

Clarity and structure: the key to GDPR compliance in finance

Ian Osborne, Vice President UK & Ireland for Shred-it, discusses the challenges the finance industry faces to ensure compliance wi..

Three things every payments professional needs to know about PSD2

Three things every payments professional needs to know about PSD2

Myles Dawson, Managing Director Adyen UK If 2018 was the year of GDPR, 2019 is the year of European Payment Services Directive (PSD2) ..

SPINR launches, bringing a new era of data management to SMEs in financial services

SPINR launches, bringing a new era of data management to SMEs in financial services

Cloud-based data and API integration platform SPINR launches, helping smaller businesses unlock the value hidden in their data SPINR ..

Payment Card Security: Looking Ahead to 2019

Payment Card Security: Looking Ahead to 2019

Geoff Forsyth, CTO, PCI Pal  PCI Pal’s Geoff Forsyth takes a look at how businesses will respond to growing security threats in 2019,..

The rise of sophisticated BEC scams in the finance industry

The rise of sophisticated BEC scams in the finance industry

 Mark Nicholls, Redscan director of cybersecurity  For all the talk of insider threats, cryptojacking and ransomware, I believe that o..

Finance Transformation: How cloud solutions can be a catalyst for process improvement as well as a driver of business transformation.

Finance Transformation: How cloud solutions can be a catalyst for process improvement as well as a driver of business transformation.

Gianluca Bisceglie, CEO of cloud-based spreadsheet platform www.visyond.com  Finance transformation is critical if you want to keep up..

Real-Time Payments and The Growing Obsolescence of Cash

Real-Time Payments and The Growing Obsolescence of Cash

David Worthington, VP, Payments at Rambus According to the World Payments Report, compiled by Capgemini and BNP Paribas, the global vo..

2019: The year customers take control of payments

2019: The year customers take control of payments

Angus Burrell, General Manager, UK, Omni-channel solutions, Valitor 2018 was a defining 12 months for the payments industry, from grou..

Helping employees navigate in the sea of financial change

Helping employees navigate in the sea of financial change

Debra Corey, Reward Gateway advisor and best-selling author  One of my all-time favourite places to visit is the seaside. Sitting on t..

The role of cash in tackling the issue of financial inclusion in Europe

The role of cash in tackling the issue of financial inclusion in Europe

Udo Mueller, CEO paysafecard 40 million Europeans are still unable to access a bank account. Increasingly, this means they’re unable t..

Faster Payments: exploring the opportunities for treasurers

Faster Payments: exploring the opportunities for treasurers

Ed Adshead-Grant, General Manager, Payments, Bottomline Technologies  The race to process transactions quickly, securely and safely in..

Financial innovation for financial inclusion

Financial innovation for financial inclusion

Paul Randall, Executive Director, Creditinfo  Historic institutions, outdated technology and consumer-unfriendly approaches have ripen..

Lack of partnerships holding back open banking innovation, report finds

Lack of partnerships holding back open banking innovation, report finds

Financial services leaders say finding the right partners is a major challenge As the first anniversary of open banking and PSD2 arriv..

nexo standards Welcomes Ten new Members to Growing Membership Base

nexo standards Welcomes Ten new Members to Growing Membership Base

Payment stakeholders collaborate to drive unified global card payment acceptance  As nexo standards continues to respond to the expand..

BOKIS and Nets Renew Agreement on International Payment Cards

BOKIS and Nets Renew Agreement on International Payment Cards

BOKIS, a Danish banking collective, and Nets, a market leader in the payments industry, have extended their existing agreement on hand..

Finance Trends 2019

Finance Trends 2019

Fiona Blades, CEO of MESH Experience  The pursuit of purpose  We believe it will become even more important for organisations in finan..

Confusing Car Lingo: Just One In Ten Brits Understand Car Finance Jargon

Confusing Car Lingo: Just One In Ten Brits Understand Car Finance Jargon

New research by a leading car finance company has revealed that Brits are getting confused when it comes to terminology surrounding ca..

Effectively and efficiently build financial trust on the customer journey

Effectively and efficiently build financial trust on the customer journey

The customer journey has transformed in the digital age, as 81% of bank shopping journeys begin online and buyers use an average of ni..