Allocating Capital for Long-Term Returns

whitePaper | June 13, 2023

Organizations continue to deal with unparalleled disruption and uncertainty. The most successful leaders are focused on moving forward and investing in the future and managing risk and potential downside. And while effective strategy involves collaboration across functional areas, finance and accounting teams are in a unique position to help their organizations survive and thrive amidst uncertainty.

whitePaper | January 3, 2020

A NEW WAVE OF disruption more forceful and more pervasive than what we have seen in recent years will likely unfold in the next decade. While the roots of this disruption— technological, economic, geopolitical, demographic or environmental—may remain the same, the unique convergence of these factors should unleash unprecedented change in the broader society and economy, and, consequently, in the banking industry as well.

whitePaper | April 13, 2022

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whitePaper | March 4, 2023

Since the start, we have worked on building a transparent, efficient, scalable and adaptable blockchain platform. But these qualities were just the tip of the iceberg. Research, innovation, collaboration and a strategy aimed at long-term viability brought us to today as we seek to multiply individual impact to unleash our collective potential for sustainability.

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.

whitePaper | March 29, 2023

Today, the financial services industry faces numerous disruptive forces, including ever-increasing customer demand for innovative and personalized services; intense competition from technology companies, fintechs and incumbents; rising regulatory pressure; increasing cybersecurity threats; and the need for skilled talent to address all the above.