Financing and investment trends

whitePaper | September 5, 2022

Established in 2008, the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) is a collaborative initiative that has delivered a standard semantic service definition of banking that can be used as a blueprint for standardization of banking services, and rationalization of supporting IT software. It delivers a domain model that describes consistent service definitions and their boundaries that make up the services that describe banking. It contains a service view, an information view, and a capability view that together describe the banking landscape. The primary aim of BIAN is to provide a standard that makes integration of software and services capabilities easier through a standard set of definitions.

whitePaper | October 6, 2021

ESG investing has grown exponentially in the last decade and is estimated to be somewhere between 35.31 to 40.52 trillion USD (according to the GSIA, 2021, and OPIMAS, 2020). The ESG investment industry is constantly in transition, with rapid developments across ESG strategies, approaches, and technologies reshaping the industry towards best standards of practice. This transition is leading to variations in the scale and growth of sustainable investment in different regions, according to GSIA. Many regions continue to see strong growth in sustainable investment assets under management – most notably Canada, the United States and Japan. Other regions are slowing down their rate of growth or have seen a reported reversal – in particular Europe and Australasia. In both cases, this is largely due to changes in how sustainable investment is defined, either by law as in the case of the EU, or by new industry standards as is the case in Australasia.

whitePaper | April 14, 2023

The importance of credit decisioning in the success of a credit business cannot be overemphasized. Credit businesses are heavily dependent on their business rules, mathematical models, and data to make profitable decisions. Customer behavior and expectations have been irrevocably transformed as a result of the pandemic, and the use of alternative credit products such as BNPL, peer-to-peer lending,

whitePaper | May 11, 2023

Financial institutions are transforming how they interact with customers and employees. They are seeing the immense value of implementing digital tools to meet today’s expectations and demands — specifically, mobile technology tools that enable banking from anywhere.

whitePaper | December 12, 2021

Banks typically approach transformation in part by reengineering their own internal business, IT, and operational processes either in ad hoc ways tied to direct response to some tactical problem or over longer time frames based on carefully planned out strategic planning. Recently, however, this transformational process has taken on a new urgency, and certain projects that were targeted to take a year or two have needed to be accelerated to meet our rapidly changing banking environment. Even the need to respond to today’s tactical challenges needs to be viewed through the long lens of transformation. As banks begin their process of recovery, projects that provide immediate return on investment (ROI) and help develop resilient operations, improve customer experiences, or improve compliance through improved service management will become critical to how quickly banks can recover from periods of economic disruptions, now and in the future.

whitePaper | November 1, 2022

Financial services firms face more and greater digital risks than at any time in their history. The global threat environment is constantly evolving, with new technologies, adversaries, and criminal techniques emerging weekly – and in response more and more regulations are being introduced.