Are financial services adapting to digital transformation fast enough?

As the events of the past year and a half have forced people to stay home, organisations across the business spectrum have been compelled to accelerate their digital transformation efforts. By Brent Haumann, MD of Striata Far from being able to take a “business...

Insurance modernisation critical for business success

Even prior to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, insurers were under pressure to modernise their legacy systems as customers started expecting more agile solutions capable of benefitting from advances in digitalisation, the cloud, and even machine learning...

Bad data throttles innovation in banking

In banking where service providers are under pressure to deliver anywhere, anytime solutions, the need to scale out digital services is a business priority. Modern applications allow banks to empower users with a new level of end user self-service that is critical at...

Financial services need to keep improving the customer experience

Financial services continue to be one of the most competitive markets, especially now that it has opened its doors to a global audience via the Internet. By Nick Durrant, CEO of Bluegrass Digital With many clients having already moved to a digital environment, they...

Financial services need to accelerate digital transformation

“Go digital or go dark”: Companies that fail to heed this advice, irrespective of sector, run a great risk in the age of technological revolution. By Greg Gatherer, account manager at Liferay Consumers prioritise convenience and will often not see the need...

Platform technology boosts democratisation of payments

The concept of platforms is nothing new. Our railways, phone networks and even our shipping industry are all examples of networks which operate under agreed universal standards and can be described as platforms. Today, we participate on tech platforms every day when...