Decentralized Finance (DeFi): Foundations, Applications, Potentials, and Challenges

whitePaper | November 21, 2022

This white paper examines the challenges facing insurers in a rapidly changing marketplace. It focuses on the threat from insurtechs and other digital challengers, the emergence of new business models and technologies, and how customer expectations have changed.

whitePaper | February 4, 2020

Banks are also open to innovation, with a perhaps surprising 83% focusing most of their technology efforts on the front office and 56% on CRM in the last three years. This reflects a focus on improving the digital customer experience and becoming more customer-centric. We're now seeing the wave of digitalization that has swept through retail banking move through SME business banking, which represents $1 trillion (20%) of bank revenues worldwide but sees the biggest gaps in funding and customer satisfaction (estimated at $5tr by the World Economic Forum).

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 | February 10, 2020

With corporate treasurers already adopting open banking in a strategic move to create further value in their organizations, it is now time for financial institutions (FIs) to both align their future product and servicing roadmaps to those of their clients, as well as begin to embrace the opportunities that present themselves in the open digital ecosystem.

whitePaper | August 22, 2022

The account-to-report process is an essential contributor to the finance function’s ability to reach peak performance. Analysis of our 2021 benchmarks reveals that account-to-report processes at digital world-class finance organizations significantly outperform more-typical organizations because they have simplified, standardized and automated a greater share of their activities. That, in turn, has freed up capacity to engage in knowledge-based work, e.g., transform raw transactional data into valuable information for other parts of the enterprise.

whitePaper | January 31, 2022

Perhaps more than any other industry, financial services firms understand the value of data. The sector is an early adopter of new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Keeping up with the latest digital developments is seen as essential to deliver great customer experiences, drive operational efficiencies and to manage risks and compliance.