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The Digital Revolution in Trade Finance

BCG

Article Tuesday, August 30, 2016. Revenues from trade finance now total approximately $50 billion a year. Simultaneously, regulation is making trade finance more costly to supply. But no cost-efficient bank can have a leading presence in every market. Competition for slices of a shrinking pie is pushing down prices.

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Fintechs May Be Corporate Banks’ Best “Frenemies”

BCG

Article Tuesday, July 05, 2016. Sleek and efficient offerings such as payments, foreign exchange, advanced analytics, and supply chain finance are redefining service, creating lucrative niches, and extending corporate banking activities from the small-business segment to the mid-cap and beyond.

Banking 75
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Cybersecurity 101: How to defend against cyber-attacks

Tom Spencer

Large organisations use technology to store data for accessibility and efficiency but because of this, can be brought to their knees and resort to using pen and paper after a deadly cyber-attack. Right now, we are surrounded by technology that allows us to access information about anyone and anything with the click of a mouse. Image: Pexels.

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Growth of Fintech and Disruption of Brick-and-mortar Financial Institutions

Tom Spencer

The idea that technology can be configured to drastically improve the delivery and usability of finance began taking off following the financial crisis of 2008, when consumer distrust for traditional banks combined with the increasing popularity and functionality of smartphone apps. Kagan, Julia (2019) What is Fintech?

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Blockchain: Bitcoin, Bored Apes, and Beyond

Tom Spencer

Blockchain technology is making a strong impact in the finance industry due to the fact that it enables decentralization and direct peer-to-peer transactions. Removing the financial intermediary, i.e. the bank, can increase convenience, efficiency, and security.

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Choosing the Right Shared Services Location

BCG

Article Monday, October 17, 2016. Increasingly, smaller and midsize businesses, decentralized international companies, and even NGOs (many of which have shoestring administrative budgets) are adopting SSCs to cut costs and capture efficiencies in their HR, finance, IT, facilities management, and other functions.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009). Research has linked organizational culture to employee morale, commitment, health, and productivity (Schein & Schein, 2016).

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