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Articles by Alison Wilkes
How To Manage Corporate Travel And Employee Expenses
Corporate Travel and Expense (T&E) is a hot topic in the FinTech world, as companies are looking to solve problems associated with expense reports, employee spending, and reimbursement. According to a blog post by the New York Business Journal, 10 percent or more of a company’s budget is related to employee travel expenses. Proper management of these expenses can give businesses a huge advantage, but improper management of corporate expenses can prove to be crippling.
Open Banking and the Evolution of Digital Payments
Open Banking is shaking up the financial services sector and opening up new avenues and opportunities for both banks and payment service providers (PSPs). The open API ecosystems that are emerging are helping players in the sector create next-generation value propositions – evolving their existing operations to make more of emerging digital technologies. The initiative enables banks and PSPs to be more creative with the services that they offer consumers.
3 Tips to Keep the Chargeback Grinch From Stealing Christmas
We’re barrelling into the busy Q4 holiday season and merchants have one big lump of coal on their minds: chargebacks. Chargeback are a costly problem—a problem that escalates during the high volume holiday shopping season. According to Lexis Nexis, every $1 of fraud costs merchants an average of $3.29—an increase of 24% over 2017. Thankfully, there are things merchants can do to prevent an onslaught of chargebacks. We’ve outlined three main tips to keep the chargeback grinch from stealing Christmas.
How To Manage Corporate Travel & Employee Expenses
Corporate Travel and Expense (T&E) is a hot topic in the FinTech world, as companies are looking to solve problems associated with expense reports, employee spending, and reimbursement. According to a blog post by the New York Business Journal, 10 percent or more of a company’s budget is related to employee travel expenses. Proper management of these expenses can give businesses a huge advantage, but improper management of corporate expenses can prove to be crippling.
A data gateway to insights: Current accounts and the case for ML
Once a mainstay of the banking industry, current accounts are increasingly perceived as a utility product. Despite their maturity, they remain the second most complained about banking products in the UK, right after PPI. In recent years, costs have increased for everything from overdrafts to transaction fees, with average customer accounts unwittingly racking up £152 per year in hidden bank fees each year.
The Data-Enabled Lender
Data is the key to effective decision making – of any kind. By acquiring and analyzing data, you can better inform and guide the decision. Why? Because limited or misleading information rarely ever results in good outcomes. Yet, for decades, lenders have based small-business lending decisions on outdated data points such as FICO scores or tax returns. Even worse, that information is skewed and often inconsistent with the health and viability of the business.
The mainframe evolution: Banking still needs workhorse tech
In the financial services industry, where IT systems are high-volume and mission-critical, news of Big Iron’s ‘big crisis’ is greatly exaggerated, at least for now. It’s true that in today’s digital first world, cloud-based services are seeing rapid adoption across all industries, especially as fintech providers launch applications that enable improved customer experiences and 24/7 banking, but mainframes are far from becoming extinct just yet.
Protecting Financial Services from the Risks of Mobile Payments
The financial services sector is a high-value target for hackers, and therefore faces daily attacks that attempt to bypass defences protecting a growing number of attack vectors. A staggering 36 per cent of these attacks result in data loss. This growing risk comes at a time when financial services firms are turning their focus to innovating new technologies and features to meet evolving consumer demands.
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