Regional banks: transformation and growth

whitePaper | June 14, 2023

The capital markets have not really benefitted from any tailwinds recently: Inflation rose and is not yet close to being stabilized; global interest rates jumped dramatically; there is slower growth, and geopolitical tensions seem to keep getting worse, among other headwinds.

whitePaper | July 19, 2022

Paul Allen, an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, had a vision to create better money. He found it confounding that he with his billions would pay less to transfer money than the poorest amongst us. Paul wanted to make money more equitable by making it more efficient and independent of any one financial institution. His team at Vulcan, along with several experts in financial technology, distributed systems, software, and financial regulations, came up with a design they called Xand, playing off Alexander Hamilton’s name, and spun out a new company, Transparent Financial Systems (Transparent) to develop it.

whitePaper | March 19, 2022

Both consumer and business payments have been moving full steam ahead, catapulted by innovations like big data, open banking, and other advancements in technology. Artificial intelligence (AI) has played a big role in the payments evolution thus far and will continue to be a main player moving forward. IDC projects that financial services companies will spend $11 billion on artificial intelligence next year. While financial services and payments certainly stand to benefit from the AI revolution, all industries will experience benefits from these developments. Accenture reports that AI can boost rates of profitability by 38% on average by 2035 and could lead to an economic boost of $14 trillion among 16 industries across 12 economies by that time, too

whitePaper | May 31, 2022

This document provides information to assist financial services institutions in New Zealand that are regulated by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand as they accelerate their use of AWS Cloud services.

whitePaper | November 26, 2019

Financial services is the nervous system of our economy; a critical system that needs to operate efficiently and equitably for our society to function. The legacy 20th century business models in finance have become increasingly obsolete and most have not adapted to the fundamental paradigm shift—technological, institutional and societal—ushered in by our continuing transition from an Industrial Age to an emerging Information Age.

whitePaper | May 16, 2023

Intercompany financial management (IFM) is a discipline for structuring and handling transactions within a corporation and between its legal entities designed to maximize staff efficiency and accounting accuracy while optimizing tax exposure, minimizing tax leakage, and ensuring consistent tax and regulatory compliance. According to Ventana Research, by 2025, one-half of large enterprises will have implemented IFM to achieve tax, risk management, and financial close benefits.