Making Financial Advice Affordable to the Masses in the Age of Digitalisation
By Tim France-Massey
Many people in the UK struggle to navigate their way through uncertainty in the current financial climate and achieve their financial planning...
Insurtechs: Threat or Opportunity for Insurance Incumbents?
By Karel Cool, Christophe Angoulvant and Brian Rogers
The article gives data on global investment in InsurTech ventures and discusses the most common strategies and...
When Technology Meets Finance: An Interview with CFO, Rabobank Asia Niels Boudeling
Finance leaders are aware of the tremendous impact of technological advancements and of the need to improve their business strategies to keep their competitive...
Cryptocurrency: Advancing Kazakhstan’s Economy and Investment?
By Samantha Brletich
Aimed at developing markets, cryptocurrency, and attracting investment, Kazakhstan created the Astana International Financial Center (AIFC). Such move, however, is not a...
Strategic ALM and Integrated Balance Sheet Management: The Future of Bank Risk Management
By Moorad Choudhry
The traditional approach to asset-liability management (ALM) practice in banks operated as a reactive process following product origination by the customer-facing business....
Digitisation asks Fundamental Questions of the Accountancy Sector
By Ben Laker
Estimated at $23 billion, the Digital transformation market is growing rapidly across the globe, with 23 percent of activity residing in the...
Lessons from a Bank-Free Investment: Peer to Peer Lending, Risks, and Returns
By Nicholas Read and Anthony Mahler
Bonus time is approaching for many executives. So what’s the best way to put that money to work for...
When Waqf meets Banks
By Ebi Junaidi
Global economy has been leaning toward innovations focussed in achieving sustainability. Ebi Junaidi promotes the age-old Waqf “movement” established by the Muslims....
Active Investing? That’s So Twentieth Century
By Edward Morris
The movement to passive investing has been unrelenting. Investors may harbour doubts that the markets are perfectly efficient, but they increasingly act...
Rejuvenating the European Economy: The Role of Islamic Finance
By Sohail Jaffer
Commenting on the sharp decline in European banks’ share prices in the early weeks of 2016, which it described as a “concern”,...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The Performance and Transformation Orchestrator: The CFO’s New Mandate in the Age of AI
By Terence Tse
CFOs are evolving into AI-driven transformation orchestrators, balancing finance, technology, and strategy while upskilling teams, managing risks, and driving measurable business value.
A key insight from this year’s AI for CFOs event, organized...
