Blockchain Implications Every Insurance Company Needs to Know

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 | April 6, 2023

In a survey of over 780 interviews with 250 major banks across the globe, Finastra and East & Partners open the lid providing insights into how the tactical playbook for banking is changing for banks, and why the growing importance of technology in the banking industry is fueling a new age of competitive, ESG-related digital banking.

whitePaper | July 26, 2022

For a very long time, incumbent banks/financial institutions have remained the pillars or stalwarts of the banking industry. Be it a retail consumer or a business, banks have remained a one-stop solution for all their financial needs. However, financial institutions have had their fair share of challenges in the past decade, which have ultimately trickled down towards the end consumer and revolutionized banking as we know it.

whitePaper | February 2, 2020

The ability to close the books, consolidate results, publish financial disclosures, and provide insightful performance reports in the least amount of time possible is widely regarded as a proxy for good corporate governance. However, the financial close and reporting process is weighed down by inefficiency and unnecessary information. Accounting and finance professionals must fight to manage and optimize an increasingly complex and disconnected ecosystem. The available amount of data is only going to increase, and CFOs are tasked with leading financial transformation initiatives to address the disparities. The pressure is on finance teams to modernize and improve.

whitePaper | April 25, 2022

Cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies are the underpinnings of a new financial infrastructure, similar to how the internet was the underpinning of a new information infrastructure. In this paper we present Ledgity, the Neo-Private Bank & Financial infrastructure dedicated to financial advisors and their clients, paving the way for a greater adoption of crypto asset investments and blockchain technology. Beyond the digitization of investors’ experience, we make it easy for financial advisors and their clients to widen their investment scope. For the first time crypto assets and tokenized financial products are easily accessible to traditional finance. Ledgity is the first digital wealth management infrastructure that harnesses the benefit of blockchain technology for the representation and the exchange of assets. Crypto asset investments opportunities and asset tokenization are offered to all, at a finger touch, on our fully integrated platform.

whitePaper | April 14, 2022

Digital transformation in the financial space has been a hot topic in emerging markets like South Africa, Nigeria & Ghana for some time now, especially among incumbents who are threatened by radical digital-first banking entities like neobanks and challenger banks. A global study by Insider Intelligence1 estimated that in 2021, there were 29.8 million digital-only account holders, and this number is expected to cross 53.7 million by 2025, owing to the remarkable mobile penetration and ICT infrastructure development2 witnessed in marginalized regions like Africa in recent years.