Payments, Fintech

Transit cards: Not “just another card” in your mobile wallet

November 15, 2022

Transit cards: Not “just another card” in your mobile wallet
Carrying cards in digital form, rather than tucked away in a purse or wallet, is now commonplace. When issued with a new card, the first thing that many of us will do is upload it to our digital wallet. The physical version goes straight into a drawer. In fact we can now skip the plastic completely, and order direct an instantly useable digital card. Digitising plastic cards is fast going out of fashion.

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The Franklin Mutual Insurance Company has been in business since 1879, making us one of the most established and respected insurance companies in New Jersey. Although we are the largest mutual insurance company headquartered in New Jersey, we are not a large conglomerate...

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Now is the time to invest in PE

whitePaper | June 21, 2022

Data from various providers and academics analysing private equity returns show, that PE outperforms public markets throughout the business cycle, and Internal Rates of Return (IRR) pick up following recessions, as most recently observed following the 2000-1 Dotcom Bust and the 2007-8 Global Financial Crisis (GFC).

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The Gap in Financial Services and Customer Service Innovation

whitePaper | October 26, 2022

They claim that financial services institutions (FSIs) fall short in several areas, including anticipating needs, prioritizing financial wellness, and enabling customers to control their data.

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The Business Value of SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine

whitePaper | December 14, 2022

The rapid pace of change brought on by the current market dynamics has put a spotlight on the communication of business information. Many financial leaders are hampered by an inability to gather and disseminate that business-critical information to the necessary stakeholders at the necessary speed to cope with the rapidly changing business environment.

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“No Regrets” Moves: How Midsize Banks Can Enhance Their Risk Capabilities

whitePaper | March 22, 2023

It’s been said that “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” The adage certainly applies to banking crises in the US: every crisis, however unique the cause, has typically been followed by a new wave of regulations. This trend is likely to continue in the wake of the current crisis. In fact, reporting from the Wall Street Journal and other sources indicates that the Federal Reserve and other banking regulators are already in discussions about changes to the US regulatory regime, especially for midsize banks.

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SPUME.IO

whitePaper | July 7, 2022

Spume is a community governed holder-owned NFT marketplace that facilitates the non-fungible tokenization of physical and digital assets and removes brokers, banks, and other centralized authorities from unjustifiably taxing the transactions and property of individuals. Our vision with Spume is the complete removal of all intermediaries that prey on individuals during the trading of digital and physical goods. This covers a broad range of markets: everything from artwork to real estate will be tokenizable and tradable on Spume’s marketplace. All revenue generated from Spume’s marketplace is given directly back to SPUME token holders. The marketplace and all decisions on development are now controlled by SPUME token holders with a governance system unlike anything ever seen before.

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How Digitization is Driving Bank M&A and Improving Performance

whitePaper | October 21, 2021

During the pandemic banks had to experiment and take risks that under normal circumstances they would never have considered in order to keep operations up and running, such as rapidly deploying a range of digital tools. To the surprise of many, employees and customers enthusiastically embraced these digital offerings, accelerating technology maturity and adoption by several years. Banks suddenly had hard evidence that digitizing operations could bring enormous efficiency and scale advantages while actually serving customers with greater personalization. These insights, in addition to capitalization changes, are contributing to a new wave of M&A activity in the U.S. as banks look to scale up quickly as the economy emerges from the pandemic. There were more than 50 deals in the first four months of 2021 with a total value of almost $25 billion, up from $6.5 billion in the same period in 2020, according to an S&P Global report.

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Franklin Mutual Insurance Company

The Franklin Mutual Insurance Company has been in business since 1879, making us one of the most established and respected insurance companies in New Jersey. Although we are the largest mutual insurance company headquartered in New Jersey, we are not a large conglomerate...

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