Speed by Design: How to build innovation into your bank

whitePaper | March 16, 2022

Companies can innovate in any number of ways. They can design new products, embark on new market strategies, rethink company organization. They can innovate by automating processes that used to be done manually, and they can extend that automation to help transform operations beyond finance and accounting.

whitePaper | July 3, 2022

Founded in 1896, Barclays is among the world's oldest banks and enjoys the patronage of some of Europe's most profitable corporations. In 2021, Barclays claimed over 48 million customers, amassed over its 120+ year history. On the other hand, Revolut is a UK neobank that has acquired over 15 million account holders in less than a decade since its founding. These numbers are illustrative of a larger shift in the global banking system, with agile, digitally empowered financial service providers making inroads into mainstream banking territory. Currently, traditional banks, with their large product and service portfolios and legions of loyal customers, still hold the lion's share of the European banking market.

whitePaper | April 26, 2023

The treasury department’s role within a bank has become more strategic and central over the last decade. Treasury teams have prioritized the delivery of a robust risk management, governance and compliance framework as well as optimizing the bank’s liquidity and balance sheet. However, a bank’s treasurer, in its role as custodian of the bank’s balance sheet, is facing a multitude of industry drivers and macro-economic challenges that will require a new approach.

whitePaper | February 13, 2023

In recent years there have been many transformations within banking that have focused on Customer360, the omnichannel experience, AML/Fraud predictions, AI digital assistants to drive operational effciency and core banking modernizations to name but a few. Yet most of them have stayed true to their core business alignment of banks controlling how their customers engage and leverage their product offerings.

whitePaper | July 30, 2022

In view of the increasing digitalization of payments and the high demand of real-time transactions, the cross-border payment I ecosystem is moving towards a new international messaging standard.

whitePaper | April 7, 2022

Private equity is an important source of capital for startups, young companies, firms in financial distress and companies that are seeking growth or buyout capital. As opposed to many other investment styles, private equity is an inherently activist asset class whereby the fund managers often exert significant influence over the underlying investments. Thus, investors in the asset class not only benefit from gaining exposure to otherwise inaccessible, unquoted/privately owned companies, but also from the skill-sets that fund managers bring to bear to improve a company’s long-term value.