Adam Arnold is a seasoned financial journalist with a decade of experience reporting on critical developments in the global financial landscape. For the past ten years, he has been a consistent voice at Finance Monthly, specializing in comprehensive coverage of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), and broader financial news. Adam also provides deeply researched insights for the publication's net worth articles, offering readers a meticulous examination of wealth accumulation and financial standing. His deep understanding of market dynamics and corporate finance makes his insights invaluable to readers navigating today's complex economic environment.
Global money transfers now have more impact in emerging economies than foreign aid and foreign direct investment.
But how and why have global money transfers grown and where will it go next?
Traditional stocks and shares investments are gradually slowing to make way for opportunities that provide more predictable returns on investment, with peer-to-peer lending rapidly increasing in popularity among investors looking to make a nice profit. Here, Richard Litchfield, Head of Operations at peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Works, discusses why you might want to invest with P2P instead of stocks and shares.
Almost two-thirds (64%) of CFOs expect that within the next five years the financial world will no longer be able to operate without big data, however, 13% of CFOs think this is already the case. Currently, financial directors are mainly using big data to make well-informed decisions (54%), to make predictive analyses (41%) and to analyse large, unstructured databases (29%). Almost one-fifth of CFOs (18%) do not use big data at all, according to the results of the 2019 FinTech Barometer, an annual survey conducted by order-to-cash specialist Onguard.
John Spencer, Chief Product Officer at Veridium comments on the challenges financial institutions are facing with legacy IT infrastructure and the benefits of migrating to the cloud through services such as AWS.
Is there anything more frustrating than finding out your bank account is unavailable due to a technical issue? Or being an IT manager at a bank and, through no fault of your own, feeling powerless when your IT system goes down?
Philippe Bens has over 25 years of experience in asset servicing. After graduating from a Business University, he began his career at a top-tier Luxembourg bank and after two years, moved to Bank Indosuez Luxembourg to work as a fund administration manager. In 1994, he was appointed Head of Depositary and Custody Bank and six years later, he became Senior Project Manager for Fastnet Luxembourg, where he was in charge of customer communication flows. In 2002, Philippe was promoted to Business Development Director for Switzerland, Benelux, Scandinavia and the Middle East and six years later, in 2008, he moved to Switzerland to become the Managing Director of CACEIS, where he is in charge of all operational activities and business development with a specific focus on real estate. With the creation of the CACEIS Bank Switzerland Branch in Nyon in 2015, his role changed to Country Managing Director and Head of Regional coverage for all CACEIS activities in Switzerland. We caught up with Philippe to find out more about CACEIS’ Swiss Branch and the most frequent problems that the investors they work with face.
The House of Marketing, the number one strategic marketing consultancy and staffing firm in Belgium, which was acquired by Quanteus Group in 2014, has posted solid double-digit growth in the last five years, and today has over 100 Consultants and a strong network of freelancers. Its sister company Upthrust – a digital business accelerator offering digital sales & marketing expertise, from staffing to project delivery – has enjoyed extremely rapid growth since coming to market in 2018.
The FinTech sector is booming and it has continued growing at an unprecedented rate in the past few years. From crowdfunding to mobile payments and money transfer services, FinTech is revolutionising how businesses and consumers handle financial transactions and it will continue to do so in the new year.
For CFOs, it can be a difficult task to determine how much money to dedicate to risk management. Without properly analysing each sector of the company and asking critical questions, this task can seem impossible.
In a perfect world, 2020 would be the year when open banking in Europe flourishes, says J. Bennett, Vice President of Operations and Corporate Development at Signifyd. Cue sunny skies, chirping birds, consumers effortlessly surveying and managing all their personal finances in an app in the palm of their hand, fully confident that their data is protected and in their control.
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