THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL CAPITAL MARKETS FOR FINANCING DEVELOPMENT

whitePaper | April 26, 2023

The treasury department’s role within a bank has become more strategic and central over the last decade. Treasury teams have prioritized the delivery of a robust risk management, governance and compliance framework as well as optimizing the bank’s liquidity and balance sheet. However, a bank’s treasurer, in its role as custodian of the bank’s balance sheet, is facing a multitude of industry drivers and macro-economic challenges that will require a new approach.

whitePaper | June 30, 2022

The UAE is currently celebrating its Golden Jubilee. In a mere 50 years, the UAE and especially Dubai has earned an eminent place on the world map. Dubai has diversified away from hydrocarbons through progressive policies, proving that building a foundation that supports innovation can lead an economy to surpass geographical, time and age constraints.

whitePaper | July 15, 2022

The rise of Banking as a Service (BaaS) and real-time payments (RTP) are pushing the era of digitalization to new heights, where interconnected ecosystems and the instant exchange of data are the norm. Until now, banks and other players have largely implemented piecemeal solutions on top of existing legacy core systems. This has led to extremely expensive and complex back-end systems—with lots of time and money spent trying to create interoperable services at the application level. With the move to fully interconnected ecosystems, stakeholders will have to re-think their core systems at the most fundamental level. Achieving this will be difficult, but the rewards are great. Infrastructure-level connectivity can enable banks and other players to benefit through the monetization of customer data that will provide new insights for services that can only be developed based on a fundamentally networked infrastructure.

whitePaper | October 3, 2022

NOTABLEWhitepaperPeople are valuable. We’ve always known that, but the current digital and social media revolution is making it clear that qualities like influence, leadership and prettiness can be valued and monetized, both for individuals and for businesses. Just think about the influencer market, that has amassed a gross value of 13$ Billion in 2021. On the other hand, blockchain technology (and digital tokens, or NFTs) is opening the world to new investment possibilities. Now people and institutions can easily invest in almost any asset class, with the same simplicity of browsing the web.

whitePaper | March 29, 2022

Recent global developments have created ample opportunities for cybercriminals to take advantage of vulnerable and even traditionally non-vulnerable individuals. The COVID-19 pandemic amplified the use of digital channels for everyday banking, while other services including digital payments, contactless and cashless payments, and buy now pay later (BNPL) services were embraced by consumers around the world. Last year, 93% of consumers used one or more digital payment methods1 , such as Zelle, and made nearly $100 billion in purchases using BNPL services2 . Not to mention government stimulus programs created unusual cash flows that were ripe for the taking by scammers.

whitePaper | February 1, 2023

Towards the latter part of 2022, the world started making a recovery from the pandemic with many countries now opening their borders. With this re-opening, countries also facing global macroeconomic & geopolitical challenges. Higher inflation is driving central banks to take measures which will result in increase in interest rate margins and drive higher income for banks.