Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Financial Services

  • “The world is speeding up and data-driven automation is paramount to staying on top. The pandemic caught many organisations flat-footed,” says Turner. “Those with traditional systems, workflows and analytical modelling weren’t able to respond quick enough.”

  • David Trossell, CEO of global data acceleration company Bridgeworks, says that ‘it doesn’t matter where in the world we work with customers; they all have the same problem: latency. In Africa, distances are vast between centres – places such as Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. They are no different to our customers in Los Angeles,…

  • …the implementation of RPA is making organizations aware of bad processes. Yet with the drive to deliver efficiency and cost-savings, Carden says: “People are looking at processes and thinking how they can automate them to improve the customer experience. They thought that RPA would buy them time, allowing them to push back digitizing the processes.…

  • Dr Stephen Castell, an independent FinTech consultant, admits that there are few innocent investor protections to fall back on: “This is essentially the case worldwide today, and it looks like it will continue that way for the foreseeable future.” He reminds us that there is a need to keep everything in perspective, suggesting that “the…

  • Geoff Tunbridge – Director Solution Consulting for APAC at ACI Worldwide, talked about real-time payments. He discussed the state of play, the lessons that have been learnt and how to make money from real-time payments. He warned that having a real-time payments scheme doesn’t automatically translate into instant success. Clear use cases are essential, with…

  • Thankfully, cross-border payments are getting faster. In a panel session featuring experts from organisations such as the Bank of England, Deutsche Bank, and InstaRem, it was revealed that the fastest cross-border instant payment was completed within 13 seconds. There are more connections between systems today, making such results as this possible. Singapore, Australia and in…

  • During the plenary session, the Chairman of SWIFT, Yawar Shah, said that advancements in the banking and payments sector requires “innovation with a coalition of the willing” – a global co-operative of SWIFT member organisations working together to effect change – moving away from focusing on driving efficiencies alone to investing in people, knowledge, skills…

  • “bunq is one of a number of challenger banks shaking the status quo like N26 and Monzo. The key is that their appeal to particularly expats as they make it simple and nearly free to look after your money” – Chris Skinner, a co-founder of the UK’s Financial Services Club

  • Wi-Fi isn’t sufficiently secure for a number of applications, including water leak detection. A report published by Positive Technologies claims that, in 92% of cases, its researchers were able to externally penetrate 92% of companies’ internal networks in penetration tests conducted last year. The researchers also found that, at 87% of its tested clients: “Wi-Fi…

  • “This increasing risk comes at a high price. Cybercrime has a direct GDP cost of at least $275 billion per year currently, according to researchers, RAND. All these challenges are causing headaches for CEOs, CTOs, CRMOs, and insurers, above all. It’s understandably become one of the most important risks to evaluate for insurance buyers, in…