Capital Market Assumptions

September 30, 2015

Hedge funds are both a feted and much maligned part of the investment landscape. They attract investors seeking the holy grail of high risk-adjusted returns that are uncorrelated with equity markets.

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Handelsbanken

Handelsbanken is a full-service bank for both personal and corporate customers and has a nationwide branch network in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Great Britain and Netherlands. Handelsbanken regards these countries as its domestic markets. The bank was founded in 1871 and currently has over 12 000 employees working in 25 countries. The Bank has 57 branches in Denmark, 46 in Finland, 22 in Netherlands, 51 in Norway, over 180 in Great Britain and 463 in Sweden....

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Restructure Your Bank for the Digital Age Using APIs and Microservices

whitePaper | July 27, 2022

It’s time for financial services providers to stop firefighting external challenges and technology developments and start taking control of their own destiny. That doesn’t mean taking on the full burden of core banking transformation as an individual enterprise, assuming it as a competition point – but instead working together with the wider industry to build a standardized model. From there, financial enterprises will be empowered to compete in the areas that matter – namely, the service and products they offer to customers.

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Onboarding Is the Foundation of Digital Transformation

whitePaper | June 1, 2022

Imagine a cruise line where a sales and marketing team has successfully booked every cabin. Yet, when passengers arrive at the dock, bags packed and ready to board, they are told to wait while their documents and identities are verified. Worse, this process happens at multiple points, slowing down the boarding process and frustrating customers before the ship even sets sail.

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

whitePaper | November 15, 2022

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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To Buy or To Build: Which is the Best Path for Digital Transformation?

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.

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Re-wiring financial services operations for a bold future

whitePaper | May 5, 2022

Massive changes has been underway for some time across the Industry .fintechs disrupted tradition introducing consumer to new ways to get the service they need.

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The Future of AI in Payments

whitePaper | March 15, 2022

The speeds at which today’s AI technology is advancing is far beyond what many have expected. The role of human decision-making is being eclipsed by computer and machine learning in almost every industry. We see it in autonomous cars and trucks as well as in actual robots pre-programmed to take on tasks once thought to be reserved for humans alone. Ralph Haupter, President of Microsoft Asia and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft stated the following: “I believe 2018 is the year that this will start to become mainstream, to begin to impact many aspects of our lives in a truly ubiquitous and meaningful way” There is no uncertainty in the fact that AI is progressing at the speed of light. It is yet to be seen how this will impact industry on a global industrial level but the applications to payments have not been insignificant in the past several years. This paper seeks to explore the intricacies of this technology, its evolution, and the potential impact of AI in payments in 2018 and beyond.

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Handelsbanken

Handelsbanken is a full-service bank for both personal and corporate customers and has a nationwide branch network in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Great Britain and Netherlands. Handelsbanken regards these countries as its domestic markets. The bank was founded in 1871 and currently has over 12 000 employees working in 25 countries. The Bank has 57 branches in Denmark, 46 in Finland, 22 in Netherlands, 51 in Norway, over 180 in Great Britain and 463 in Sweden....

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