Articles from Banking

Although the terms “wealth management” and “financial planning” refer to different aspects of financial advisory, they are mutually complementary. Such services are offered to individual customers e.g. by banks. What is wealth management and financial planning?

Work from whenever you want and be within reach when your contractors are working. The company management application available for smartphones allows you to run your business at any time.

The pandemic strongly disrupts the timely delivery of trade commitments. Continuous monitoring of the customer, contractor or supplier is a must.

Business downtime is a painful toll of the epidemics. The paradox is that the latter can be a catalyst for change that will save businesses from downtime for a long time to come.

Living in a post digital revolution world, most would agree that we have sacrificed much of our privacy for the sake of convenience. Unfortunately, sacrificing privacy can also mean sacrificing security and that presents a serious challenge for banks who are in the industry of security.

The service digitisation process which may be observed for more than a dozen (if not more than twenty) years does not skirt the financial sector. What should the wealth management service look like in the digital transformation era and what strategies can be adopted by the institutions offering them?

The unmet global demand for trade finance amounts to $1.5 trillion a year. That’s how much companies struggle to access the capital they need.

Can modern technology stem the tide of global money laundering? That's the 1.6 trillion dollar question. We humans aren’t particularly adept at visualizing large numbers, and anything beyond one hundred is hard to picture in concrete terms.

Money laundering is in the news all too often and, based on the pervasiveness of this charge, it is safe to say a lot more illicit cash is slipping under the radar of unwitting banks and regulators.