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Oleksandr Strozhemin

Oleksandr Strozhemin Co-founder and CEO at Trinetix

Top 3 Key Challenges of Accelerating Digital Dexterity

The advance of hybrid work models brought forward such terms as digital dexterity — i.e., employees' preparedness for mastering new technologies and using them to increase workplace productivity. According to Gartner, digitally dexterous employees can accelerate business transformation by 3.3x, which is extremely important in any increasingly digi...

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Elaine Mullan

Elaine Mullan Head of Marketing and Business Development at Corlytics

From bias to buy-in: the behavioural economics advantage in RegTech sales to financial institutions

The sale of regulatory technology to financial institutions is often a long and complex process, with multiple stakeholders, as is the norm for enterprise sales. But let’s look at how the principles of behavioural economics can shine a light onto this complex sales environment and perhaps provide some pointers to ease transactions, aka make sales....

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Max Koretskiy

Max Koretskiy Investor, Cо-Founder at Blackshield Capital Group

The Evolution of WealthTech: Key Platforms Shaping the Future of Digital Wealth Management

Is the Market ready for Premium Digital Banking and New Technologies in the Financial Industry? With contributions from Andriy Hryshchuk, Senior Investment Analyst at Blackshield Capital About nine years ago, my partners and I attempted to digitise private banking. We began developing a digital platform for wealth management. At that time, I had o...

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Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger Founder & CEO at UXDA

Digital Banking Complaints: Don't Blame Your Customers

When banking executives confront the challenges of digital transformation, a familiar frustration emerges: “Why are customers complaining about our digital services?” While some bank employees blame customers, the true issue lies in the complex and unintuitive interfaces these customers face. Common Customer Complaints About Digital Banking Apps D...

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Raktim Singh

Raktim Singh Senior Industry Principal at Infosys

Neuro-symbolic AI: AI with reasoning

Neuro-symbolic AI is a unique form of artificial intelligence that combines the strengths of neural and symbolic AI architectures. This powerful AI model can model cognition, learning, and reason, effectively overcoming each of its limitations. Neuro-symbolic AI : Combining best of Neural network & Symbolic AI Neuro-symbolic AI combines the str...

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Love Change: The Dynamics of Modern Leadership

Change in financial services has become a differentiating factor. With that, the facets of leadership have and are still evolving, with a refreshed focus on the dynamics and instruments of change within organisations. The pace of change is a different proposition now than it used to be. The confluence of technology advances, which continue to occur exponentially, and consumer demand in combination with market and regulatory pressures give the context for the very real challenge of agility for financial institutions (FIs) of all sizes. This means in some cases wholesale transformation of traditional structures, hierarchies and business models, away from not only legacy technology stacks and systems, but also from endemic siloed cultures. Architects often say it is easier to demolish and start anew but with live running workforces and global operations in train, transforming an enterprise on-the-go requires astute and reasoned methods and a considered approach. It goes beyond placing the focus on technology, as the industry is wont to do. What are the core tenets of change and transformation? How does one effect change, enterprise-wide and what are the real dynamics of modern leadership? It takes the vision to identify processes that are redundant or limiting, for example longstanding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) may be redundant within new business and operating models. Or the way in which teams interoperate and report may need to be adjusted; upskilling is likely a contributing factor; HR and recruitment parameters need likewise to be taken into account.  The instruments with which to change course need to be clearly and realistically set on course, but what else is required in order to inspire and influence. Is failure indeed required in order to succeed? This report from Finextra, in association with Mambu, engaged several industry leaders from a range of financial services organisations, to address the dynamics of modern leadership and what it takes to succeed and orchestrate change, not only once but as a constant.

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Driving successful Cloud Transformation

Capital market firms face the challenge to evolve at pace with technology, so that they're able to innovate and adapt to the customer’s needs quickly. Cloud is seen as a key enabler to their digital future, however cloud adoption isn’t just about IT infrastructure. How can executives develop a holistic approach towards cloud modernisation to ensure their investments pay off? As ‘digital’ engulfs business strategies, large-scale financial services players need to develop smarter ways to adapt and accelerate technological change. They are also under constant pressure from fintechs operating on agile systems, rolling out products and services at speed. The pace of innovation at large firms often suffers due to the scale of operations, monolithic tech infrastructure, ‘people alignment’ and old ways of working. Challenges brought about by COVID require even greater levels of resilience and agility to navigate. More firms than ever are using cloud-led modernisation as a catalyst for holistic enterprise transformation, and crucially, this should lead to adaptable business models that can sustain growth and weather future uncertainties in an ever-changing milieu. To maximise the value from investment, operating models need to align closely business and tech strategies. A democratised approach needs to be implemented enterprisewide and with that, a portfolio management approach to balance the long-term evolution of the underlying platform whilst pursuing growth with new products and features. Technology modernisation is also an enabler for lean product management practices such as low-cost rapid experimentation for exploring and exploiting innovative opportunities. Organisational, as well as technological change is needed to ensure teams can tap into the acceleration and agility that cloud-based architecture promises. Organisations need a mind shift- moving from a top-down decision culture to an empowered agile workforce that can continuously deliver on strategic business outcomes. This research paper from Finextra, in association with Thoughtworks, is based on interviews with senior leaders on their plans and challenges around digital programmes and cloud modernisation.

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The Future of Digital Banking in the UK 2021

Why digital is paramount for innovation leaders. While emerging technology has been leveraged by banking leaders and incremental progress has been made in business-led areas, the modernisation of banking must remain as an evolving journey. To find the right approach, UK banks must ask themselves: what does the digital operating model look like to make this constant innovation sustainable? For an incumbent bank, digital transformation has become a herculean task in an age saturated with technological options, requiring traditional lenders to embrace unpredictability, maintain agility and digitise to the core, which requires support from agile fintech players. Legacy players that are in the process of migrating to the cloud are struggling with application modernisation, data centralisation and security, and as a result, banks that are born in the cloud are at an advantage. However, the cloud is not a solution in itself. From building agile platforms to meet the expectations of demanding customers, to crafting an optimised digital operating model, to instilling a strong work culture that goes beyond diversity, there are central challenges which must be addressed by banks in order to lay the foundations for a successful digital future. Banks now recognise the urgency of collaborating with the leading minds in the fintech industry, to craft and deliver the best products to their discerning customers. Download your copy of the report, in association with Backbase, to gain valuable insights from leading financial institutions and understand what will make UK banks successful into the future. The report includes insights from Atom bank, Coventry Building Society, first direct, HSBC, Investec, Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, NatWest, OakNorth, Standard Chartered, Tandem Bank, and Yorkshire Building Society. Additionally, join us for a Finextra webinar with Backbase, to gain insights from an industry expert panel discussion on how a future-proof digital banking operating model can reconcile digital and personal - Engagement Banking: Orchestrating the Customer Experience

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Lord Christopher Holmes of Richmond MBE on what the AI Regulation Bill Means for Fintech

At IFGS 2024, Lord Christopher Holmes provides his view on announcements such the Open Finance Task Force, which were revealed by Bim Afolami MP. Lord Holmes also dives deep into the AI Regulation Bill and how the industry can better align technology for financial inclusion and to benefit vulnerable customers.

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Aoibhinn Mc Bride

Aoibhinn Mc Bride Content Editor at Jobbio

Is being a tech generalist the key to career longevity?

From AI to cybersecurity, you might be operating under the assumption that in order to excel in tech you need to focus your career efforts in one specific area, particularly in your formative years. But according to Eddy Barker, an engineer at U.S. telecommunications company AT&T, specialising too early in one specific area can limit your techn...

Amanda Kavanagh

Amanda Kavanagh Contributor at Jobbio

These are the work skills Brits need to succeed

As all industries become increasingly digitised, the need for a digitally-skilled workforce, at all levels, has never been greater. However, digital is just one of the areas affected by the current skills gap in the UK. Leadership-related soft skills, STEM and healthcare, and training and education joined digital in the top four of missing skills i...

Amanda Kavanagh

Amanda Kavanagh Contributor at Jobbio

Low productivity? These are the most common blockers at work

Productivity culture has taken a bashing in recent years, and rightfully so. As many productivity-obsessed people discovered the human toll of getting things done at all costs, productivity has become something of a dirty word. Whether you are working or job hunting (or both), you will likely have daily, weekly, and monthly to-do lists to get throu...