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: Fintech

  • According to Econsultancy.com’s ‘Stats roundup: the impact of Covid-19 on ecommerce’, “App Annie’s State of Mobile 2021 report has revealed that the total time spent by Android users in shopping apps globally came to more than 100 billion hours in 2021. This is up from just under 85 billion in 2020. This means that the…

  • Statista says the UK is one of the most advanced e-commerce markets in Europe. Before the crisis, the UK’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) reported the country’s e-commerce revenue equated to £693bn (USD With Stay-At-Home and Work-from-Home orders, due to the various lockdowns, e-commerce accelerated in March 2020, as online shopping behaviours changed. Statista researcher,…

  • Bango (AIM: BGO, OTCQX: BGOPF) – a company that is listed on the London Stock Exchange, and a provider of unique purchase behaviour technology – says the market is growing at a rate of at least 15% per year, and so the overall macro trend is that people are spending more money online. From a…

  • During the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, ecommerce has accelerated right across the globe – to the extent that Econsultancy.com believes it’s a trend that’s hard to ignore. This is particularly since consumers shopped with increased frequency online out of necessity, writes Graham Jarvis. Read the complete article. 

  • Essential: Mapping the customer journey Confidence, customer satisfaction, business process efficiency and the speedy resolution of customer queries begin by mapping the customer journey. It requires the analysis of how customers interact, why they interact, and how they go from the start of conversation through to the resolution of their query – which could be…

  • With automation, insurers can have more conversations with customers. Million says, “When it occurs on the phone, they can have only 1 conversation at a time, and with automation the number of conversations is unlimited.” Automation, therefore, permits insurers to increase the number of conversations they have with more customers, this is critical for claims…

  • Business and technology journalist Graham Jarvis reports on how cryptocurrencies and blockchain can improve access to healthcare.

  • Vervoort and his co-authors Camila R Guetter and Alexander W Peters write: “Health disparities remain vast around the world and are perpetuated by error-prone information technology systems, administrative inefficiencies and wasteful global health spending. Blockchain technology, a novel, distributed peer-to-peer ledger technology, is increasingly used in various industries to disintermediate, improve efficiency and transparency and…

  • Personal mobile devices have grown to be a nuisance and a huge security risk on trading floors and other restricted areas. In the financial sector, personal mobile device surveillance is often overlooked in favour of soft policies to achieve regulatory compliance and data security. However, these aren’t enough to prevent material, non-public information breaches and…

  • David Williams, managing director, underwriting and technical services at AXA, finds that there has been an increase in the take-up of EVs. It’s slow but it’s progressing. He adds: “If you want to buy an EV, it’s more expensive than the internal combustion engine version. This will change – when you build more of something,…