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: Global Treasury

  • Beyond his work with TU Automotive and Trudy Darwin Communications, between 2020 and 2022, Graham Jarvis – freelance business and technology journalist, wrote and edited insurtech reports for Intelligent Insurer; wrote articles on cryptocurrencies in healthcare; wrote about education; edited and wrote fleet management reports for ABAX; wrote about digital accessibility; wrote about cloud computing;…

  • “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.”

  • Change requires more market liberalisation, less military involvement in the country’s economy and to widen participation in political affairs while giving the private sector a more central role than it has in the Egyptian economy. Such reforms could prove positive by reducing social unrest, attracting foreign direct investment, bolstering its currency and filling its foreign…

  • …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.…

  • 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…

  • Simon French, Panmure Gordon’s chief economist, describes the repeal of Dodd Frank as beggar-thy-neighbour economics because the relaxing of Dodd Frank would only benefit the US at the expense of other countries. He argues that it means that British and European banks have to face the prospect that their marginal costs will increase if they…

  • Greece’s ongoing negotiations with the Troika of the European Union (EU) have renewed political and economic uncertainty across Europe. Corporate treasurers must ask the question – are the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) economies simply too risky? Read the complete article, published by GT News on 15th April 2015. 

  • Each accountancy qualification on the market has its own strengths and weaknesses in terms of course structure and career focus. Graham Jarvis explores the options in his article for City A.M. Published on 12th February 2015.