CONNECTING FINANCE AND NATURAL CAPITAL

whitePaper | December 1, 2021

Modern, cloud-based digital technology is necessary for financial institutions that are seeking to address the customer experience, improve internal operational effectiveness, streamline internal communications and allow access to data across the enterprise. For years, the only option was to develop such technology in-house, at great expense and expenditure of resources. But today, banks and credit unions have a better option: the ability to buy technology and implement it quickly, cost effectively and more efficiently than they could on their own.

whitePaper | May 3, 2022

A world-class customer experience is mandatory for banks that wish to build engagement and loyalty, and expand their share of wallet. Smart banking is crucial to providing and supporting such an experience.

whitePaper | July 13, 2022

Banking has long been at the forefront of technology innovation. From ATMs to mobile banking, financial institutions have been the harbinger of technology-powered interactions for consumers around the world. However, the price of that early innovation has been mountains of technical debt.

whitePaper | April 15, 2022

It’s a time of particularly significant change in the banking sector. Digital transformation is opening fresh opportunities worldwide, and as a result, the adoption and integration of cloud platforms has become a pivotal component in a company’s technology strategy. It’s easy to see the advantages too: new environments are bringing with them greater security and reliability. That, and a huge range of PaaS and SaaS options continue to evolve. There’s opportunity for real, reachable modernisation, and for cost savings too, and that’s what we’re going to explore here.

whitePaper | April 14, 2021

So what will 2021 - and beyond - bring us in FinTech innovation? Central Bank Digital Currencies? - perhaps - but some would argue that most currency is already digital: how much physical cash did you handle in the last year? And how much was transacted by digital money transfer, real-time payments, card transactions, mobile wallets… Does money actually exist? The news is full of how multi-million-pound artworks can now be represented by ‘non-fungible tokens’ which represent ‘digital’ but not physical ownership of the artworks.

whitePaper | October 10, 2022

Over the last decade, $5 trillion of market value has been created in financial services.¹ The sector’s gross profit pool has swelled to an amount larger than any other major group – larger than software, e-commerce, semis, and even healthcare. Since financial services are ingrained into nearly every aspect of our life and work, it is a natural target for disruption and innovation. Fintech has just experienced its very first venture-fueled innovation cycle with the percent of venture dollars rising from <5% of dollars deployed in 2011 to ~22% in 2021.² Hundreds of billions of dollars invested in the space has fueled a new wave of technology evolution around the world from omni-channel payment providers to B2B payments and fully re-bundled digital banks.