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How Predictive Marketing Analytics Empowers Financial Leadership

How Predictive Marketing Analytics Empowers Financial Leadership

Phil Crothers, Chief Marketing Officer, BrightTarget The role of the CFO is changing from “cost authority to business value architect”..

Fast-growing business: Prepared for the future?

Fast-growing business: Prepared for the future?

Fast-growing organisations can often struggle to look past the short term. With so much going on requiring their immediate attention,i..

Top Five Tips for Using Your Credit Card

Top Five Tips for Using Your Credit Card

Get the most out of your spending, with these tops tips from credit card provider, Debenhams Personal Finance Andy Newman, Head of Per..

2017 Global Payroll Complexity Index Reveals 

2017 Global Payroll Complexity Index Reveals 

Top Payroll Risks and Challenges per Country NGA Human Resources, a global leader in HR and payroll services, has released its 2017 Gl..

Ultimate Finance to fund perishables with new product

Ultimate Finance to fund perishables with new product

Purchase Finance launched to support SMEs in the food sector  Leading SME funding partner, Ultimate Finance has launched a unique new ..

Going Cashless? How transaction data can help you meet your customers’ needs

Going Cashless? How transaction data can help you meet your customers’ needs

By Raj Sond, General Manager at First Data We recently commissioned a consumer survey about payment acceptance and what emerged was th..

GDPR readiness: Finance and IT most funded sectors in race towards General Data Protection Regulation compliance

GDPR readiness: Finance and IT most funded sectors in race towards General Data Protection Regulation compliance

Only 1 in 4 businesses currently ready for GDPR, but a further 44% expect to be ready in time for next May.  Finance (£215m) and IT..

The evolving role of the CFO: money isn’t everything

The evolving role of the CFO: money isn’t everything

By Liam Butler, VP Sales EMEA at SumTotal  The recession forced the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) and finance to step up to the plate.By..

Investment Outlook: A fortnightly look at global financial markets

Investment Outlook: A fortnightly look at global financial markets

Tom Elliott, deVere Group’s International Investment Strategist Near-term market sentiment: Still bullish. Last week the MSCI World in..

What can the Bitcoin split teach us about consensus-based governance?

What can the Bitcoin split teach us about consensus-based governance?

Rich Folsom, managing associate, Kemp Little LLP The past few months has been a particularly turbulent time for the cryptocurrency com..

Google to roll out anti-disinformation campaign in some EU countries

Google to roll out anti-disinformation campaign in some EU countries

Mike Wake, Head of Data Management, SAS UK & Ireland, Industries worldwide are facing a shake-up with the introduction of the EU’s..

Leading through Brexit

Leading through Brexit

Dr Michael Greenspan,Managing Partner, Kiddy& Partners Brexit is something that most leaders of UK-based financial services firms ..

It’s time we act against digital crime  

It’s time we act against digital crime  

By Ashok Vaswani, CEO Barclays UK. In everyday life we are diligent in managing the risks that threaten our daily safety; looking both..

Brexit will accelerate evolution of Capital Markets Union (CMU).

Brexit will accelerate evolution of Capital Markets Union (CMU).

According to the latest survey conducted by SIX Securities Services, over half of organisations (53%) questioned believe plans for a C..

Taking a layered approach with PSD2

Taking a layered approach with PSD2

Tony Reid, CTO of Financial Services, Hitachi EMEA Two decades ago the payment industry was perceived as an innovation backwater. Paym..

PSD2 is coming: Are you ready?

PSD2 is coming: Are you ready?

Sam Bennett, Head of Compliance and Operations, Frontierpay Sam Bennett Taking effect at the beginning of 2018, the second..

The blockchaineffect: reimagining financial services

The blockchaineffect: reimagining financial services

Duncan Jones, Head of Skunkworks, Thales e-Security  Over the past five years, blockchain has risen from an underground currency techn..

Protecting GDPR Footprints Withinthe Financial Sector

Protecting GDPR Footprints Withinthe Financial Sector

Author: Steve Durbin, Managing Director, Information Security Forum (ISF) www.securityforum.org  It is no secret that the impending EU..

How AI is transforming the finance industry

How AI is transforming the finance industry

By Dan Somers, CEO of Warwick Analytics (www.warwickanalytics.com) Artificial Intelligence(AI) is helping to automate business process..

Desjardins: driving global payment acceptance interoperability with nexo standards

Desjardins: driving global payment acceptance interoperability with nexo standards

This case study explores the requirement of Desjardins to harmonise its payment acceptance infrastructure to support the international..

IRIS helps accountants future-proof their practice

IRIS helps accountants future-proof their practice

IRIS Accountancy Solutions is today warning UK accountants they must future-proof their practices to be ready for the imminent climati..

Finance and IT: turn your challenges into opportunities

Finance and IT: turn your challenges into opportunities

By Philippe Gangneux, ‎Chief Financial Officer at Sidetrade. Philippe Gangneux According to a survey by PwC, in 2017, 60% ..

Tackling Consumer Money Woes: Why PSD2 Could Be The Answer

Tackling Consumer Money Woes: Why PSD2 Could Be The Answer

By Jerry Mulle, Sales and Marketing Director, Intelligent Environments Jerry Mulle It will be a surprise to no one to know..

EU tax authorities – anti-fraud measures and a grab for cash

EU tax authorities – anti-fraud measures and a grab for cash

To date, 13 countries have implemented increased VAT reporting measures (and a further 3 countries have proposed measures), designed t..

Trustonic Underpins Korean National Certification Platform

Trustonic Underpins Korean National Certification Platform

Korean Accredited Certification Authority Koscom protects financial services with hardware-based PKI certificates to simplify how mill..

Finance amongst worst offenders as 74% of security incidents come from within organisations, not hacking groups

Finance amongst worst offenders as 74% of security incidents come from within organisations, not hacking groups

Clearswift Insider Threat Index 2017 Organisations report that 42% of IT security incidents occur as a result of their employees acti..

Research reveals real-time settlement is critical for collateral optimisation

Research reveals real-time settlement is critical for collateral optimisation

83% of financial organisations say real-time settlement is the most important factor when choosing a collateral management provider  ..

It’s time to address asset management’s image problem

It’s time to address asset management’s image problem

By Mash Patel, CEO of Kurtosys It’s a tough time to be a fund manager. Forthcoming regulatory updates darken the horizon, necessitatin..

Samantha Gleave: What does the BoE’s rate hint mean for stock pickers?

Samantha Gleave: What does the BoE’s rate hint mean for stock pickers?

Fund Managers: James Inglis-Jones and Samantha Gleave “…monetary policy could need to be tightened by a somewhat greater extent over t..

The collaborative future of fintech

The collaborative future of fintech

By Dominic Allon, Vice President and Managing Director, Intuit Europe The rise of fintech has revolutionised the way we pay, shop and ..

What EMV Tokenization 2.0 means for the payments industry

What EMV Tokenization 2.0 means for the payments industry

David Worthington, VP of Business Development at Rambus Technical body EMVCo launched version two of its EMV® Payment Tokenisation Spe..

Swiss ICO Summit Attracts Global Industry Leaders to Discuss Future of Crypto Finance

Swiss ICO Summit Attracts Global Industry Leaders to Discuss Future of Crypto Finance

Smart Valor today announced the full line-up in advance of the sold-out event Smart Valor, the decentralized platform for the issuance..

More Women Are Seeking Financial Advice, New Study Reveals

More Women Are Seeking Financial Advice, New Study Reveals

More women are seeking financial advice due to increasing rates of divorce and the rise of female entrepreneurs, according to a new st..

Finance Sector Workers’ Average ‘Lunch Hour’ Just 37 Minutes – How Can The Office Change This?

Finance Sector Workers’ Average ‘Lunch Hour’ Just 37 Minutes – How Can The Office Change This?

The average worker in the finance sector now takes just 37 minutes for their lunch break, with over half of UK workers (52%) skipping ..

Canadian Securities Administrators Issue Guidance Regarding Cryptocurrency Offerings

Canadian Securities Administrators Issue Guidance Regarding Cryptocurrency Offerings

By Tracy L. Hooey, Daniel Fuke and Bradley Freelan On August 24, 2017, the staff of the Canadian Securities Administrators other than ..

EMVCo Publishes Version 2 of the EMV Payment Tokenisation Technical Framework

EMVCo Publishes Version 2 of the EMV Payment Tokenisation Technical Framework

Updated framework includes expanded e-commerce use cases and operational management enhancements to support global interoperability an..

Scientists lead the way for financially savvy professionals

Scientists lead the way for financially savvy professionals

    79% of Brits consider themselves to be financially savvy     Yet a third don’t know the current VAT rate     Almost a quarter of ..