Online investing has made ordinary people discover financial markets. Together with lockdowns and limited mobility triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, came hours and hours spent on social media and the internet, and all that made us even more aware of new ways of investing, among other things and realities. …
Does every company understand what falls under the treasury function? Challenging events in the past made the value of the treasury function crystal clear to the business as a whole. However, we still see some companies without a cash culture in place, lacking key metrics and global visibility and/or still …
In the busy market of buzzwords, technology convergence doesn’t have a place, at least not yet. Maybe, what may come out of the conjunction of these two words isn’t yet that apparent to the human mind. What our reality makes obvious is that technology, notably the one based on bits, …
Although product and service innovation is, more often than not, driven by unhappy customers whose demands for seamless, delightful and outcome-driven experiences are not being met, it’s up to smart, visionary businesses to seize the opportunity and, nimbly, cover those needs. In the pandemic (and post-pandemic) world the need for …
Is your approach to compliance fit for the present and for what the future holds? There is a very common human response when someone hears the word “compliance”, as if it was embedded in our genes: most people go, “oh compliance”, and they frown or twist their mouths. Let’s be …
By now, the business benefits of moving to the cloud aren’t questioned anymore. In fact, the adoption of cloud has followed a similar path than any other new technology. It needed first to be perceived as useful and easy to use. After all, the adoption of any digital technology always …
This week’s blog article stems from a nice exchange of emails with Koen Maris, our Cybersecurity Leader. In the midst of the exchange one of us referred to “the next normal” as the new buzzword we may want to be using. “New normal, next normal, you name it, what’s new …
Luxembourg’s leading position in the fund industry worldwide demands that the country also be a reference in fund governance. The more oversight is robust and investors are protected, the more its influence in the industry will grow. Governance is more important than ever because the pace of change seen in …
When doing true content marketing a business adopts the freemium business model. Have you realised that? Yes, even in the financial services industry. Read through and discover why. But in this article we want to move beyond content strategy matters like the one just stated, and have a look at …
The last cybersecurity-related blog entry of this special and ineffable 2020 is about the Know-Your-Third-Party approach, which allows for the standardisation of third-party oversight processes, including managing cybersecurity risks proactively. The more technology spreads across the world of work, the more financial institutions rely on software applications and specialised IT …
