In response to the developing coronavirus pandemic, Professor Miltos Makris of the University of Kent’s School of Economics explains the current and potential implications for the world economy. Explainer: covid-19 and Worldwide Recession ‘The almost ...
Coronavirus-triggered social distancing, isolation and lockdowns have driven-up the use of financial apps in Europe by 72 per cent in a week, reveals deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations. The ...
UK Finance is warning consumers to be on the lookout for “smishing” text message scams from criminals exploiting the coronavirus outbreak. Smishing is when criminals use text messages impersonating other organisations to trick people into ...
Banking and finance are undergoing fast digital transformation, the replacement of legacy systems and novel tools for back-end and customer-facing tasks. The concept of a fully digital bank is one of the major paths envisioned ...
Equities have finally succumbed. Until Friday, global markets were still hovering around their January highs. But markets fell back 1% or so on Friday and the UK and European markets are down more than 3% ...
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing will be “the new norm in less than five years”, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial services and advisory organisations. The bold prediction from Nigel ...
Fintech expert calls for a reevaluation of a Digital Bank concept claiming it should not have more than 10 employees if fully digitalized The rise of innovative technologies in finance naturally sparked an interest in digital banking. ...
Markets have adapted to better price discovery even on days of extreme price volatility, making arbitrage strategies no longer the ‘go-to’. A report into the liquidity of Bitcoin, published today by digital assets derivatives exchange ...
Interview with Thomas Nägele, Managing Partner of NÄGELE Attorneys at Law, LLC CEO Insight: Nowadays, tokenised securities are the hottest crypto topic, coinciding with the recent publication of the thinkBLOCKtank paper “The Regulation of Tokens ...
Alan Taylor, CEO of the Cook Islands Financial Services Development Authority (FSDA), talks to CEO Insight about the jurisdiction’s unique credentials, as well as the most noteworthy products and recent developments. CEO Insight: What do ...
We sit down with Graham Bright Head – Compliance and Operations to discuss the successes and the forwards trajectory of Euro Exim Bank’s innovation into new markets. CEO Insight: Euro Exim Bank has joined Ripple. ...
On October 3, 2019, the Liechtenstein “Token and TT Service Provider Act,” nicknamed the Liechtenstein Blockchain Act, unanimously passed through its second reading in Parliament, meaning that come January 1, 2020, Liechtenstein will be the ...
Disruptive digital banks, innovative start-ups and shifting consumer demands have already started to change the banking industry. And while it may not transform dramatically in the next few years, the springboards for some exciting progress ...
With every corner of modern business getting inundated with data, is there any space left for instinct to fit into business strategies? Data and intuition are frequently seen as conflicting concepts, but taking both ideas ...
Over a third of CFOs see big data as a threat to employment Almost two-thirds (64%) of CFOs expect that within the next five years the financial world will no longer be able to operate ...
While currency, equity and bond markets yo-yo at the mercy of Trade War headlines it is worth recalling the story that in the 1420s China sent a massive fleet all the way to Europe helping ...
Fitch Ratings does not see stablecoins (cryptocurrencies backed by reserves) such as Facebook’s Libra accepted by global authorities until their backers are regulated akin to large, systemic banks. The global pushback by regulatory and monetary ...
Technology has transformed the world of banking, bringing all manner of new services to the table and revolutionising the way that customers manage their finances. Gone are the days of fixed branches and localised appointments. ...