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October 2019 Global Financial Stability Report – IMF
Key Vulnerabilities in the Global Financial System • Rising corporate debt burdens • Increasing holdings of riskier and more illiquid assets by institutional investors • Greater reliance on external borrowing by emergin...
The Masters & Robots event is back: but who claims the true crown, man or machine?
Don`t miss the future! Technological business challenges - ticket sales have started at Masters & Robots 2019 Artificial intelligence, data analytics, biotechnology, robotics, digital transformation, building agi...
The Disruptive Market of Hong Kong,
How Asia’s largest financial centre, the Fragrant Harbour, went from the ‘Gateway of China’ to a burning hot pot fighting for a new future and why it will be a place to do business for decades to come. This is part o...
Watches tick up, while jewels lose their shine
The Royal Bank of Scotland has taken a look at the Coutts Passion Index to let you know what is hot and what is not. Below are their remarks on the valuable assets index; RBS 2/9/2019 - The 4th edition of the Cou...
Federal Reserve real-time settlement service plan
The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced that the Federal Reserve Banks will develop a new round-the-clock real-time payment and settlement service, called the FedNow℠ Service, to support faster payments in the Uni...
IMF’s World Economic Outlook, July 2019
Still Sluggish Global Growth • Global growth remains subdued. Since the April World Economic Outlook (WEO) report, the United States further increased tariffs on certain Chinese imports and China retaliated by raisin...
Fintech Nation: Hungary
Perhaps not the first place to be considered as a hotspot for fintech activity, Hungary and its capital, Budapest, are making headway in developing products and services for the country’s fledgling financial sector a...
What is key to transformation on a corporate level?
No one is clueless to the difficulties which make change of any kind a slow-moving process in the legacy sector of finance. But, according to some, a touch of persuasive creativity may be the missing ingredient when ...
7 things for firms to consider before taking the plunge into AI
Globally ranked influencer and AI expert Mark Lynd runs through the issues that financial organizations should weigh up before rushing into the technology – and the potential pitfalls for those that don’t. AI is...
Featurespace talks Tech, Fraud, and protecting Danske Bank
The recent money laundering scandal involving Danske Bank, Denmark’s biggest lender, shocked the financial world. As it attempts to rebuild its reputation, the bank has engaged the services of Featurespace, the world’s l...
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