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Why Solo Developers Should Never Take the Easy Route
@GarethGareth Mahoney Someone who enjoys sharing stories about coding and tech, with a passion for automation. This story is my own take on why working solo shouldn't mean you take the easy route as a developer. Sometimes you've got to force yourself to do things to become better at what you do. As a solo developer, it can sometimes be difficult to do what you know you should do. It’s often the case where you feel like you’ve got something working and that’s all that matters.
From the C to the B - Putting the B back in Brexit
Do you remember when Brexit dominated almost every element of the daily discourse? Every headline, every TV news story, every social media link involved the B-word. Half of all conversations touched upon or outright focussed on the latest B-news. You could barely look a computer, a billboard or dare I say a bus without seeing B-stuff.
Why onboarding is the key to fintech success
The challenge faced by every financial provider, including fintechs, is how to onboard customers as smoothly as possible. But what does best practice look like? In my experience, signing up for a new account can be an exercise in friction and frustration, not least because identity verification has been poorly implemented as an afterthought. A digital identification and verification process is central to a smooth and simple onboarding process and imperative for a digital bank or a fintech.
Breaking down Silos: 4 Key Transformation Challenges for Transfer Agents and Fund Administrators
In a recent post, we explored how Asset Servicing (AS) firms are grappling to meet their clients’ and investors’ fast-evolving digital service and real-time reporting expectations. The underlying reason that so many Transfer Agents (TA) and Fund Administrators (FA) are not in a position to offer appropriate digital services is as much cultural as it is structural.AS providers are often stuck in a mindset of manual processes and are constrained by operational silos and legacy systems.
Are we witnessing an Agile Revolution in Client Onboarding?
Traditionally, a digitisation project at a financial institution has been a unique opportunity to shape the way entire teams work, introducing procedures and systems that would stay in place for a long time. But this was before 2020. Since the beginning of the pandemic, financial institutions had to adapt to new challenges at an extraordinary speed.
Profitability Paradigm : Capital Compression - Balance Sheet Story
Tracing the evolving banking scenario in and around the pandemic, through the lens of “shrunken transactions” a harbinger in many ways. The intensity of the impact may vary, but both individuals and businesses of all sizes and shapes have been thrown into a vortex. Last blog* I touched upon margin compression and its impact on P & L books of the bank, due to shrunken business (reduction in both consumption and Trade), lowering interest rates and flattened yield curve.
Business Resiliency and Future Proofing Your Procurement Operations for the 2nd Covid Wave?
Key questions you need to ask yourself before embarking on your business’s journey to spend and payments automation Now, more than ever, businesses find themselves operating in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment. The key question is how can businesses position themselves to not just survive in this environment, but thrive? How well could your business deal with future disruptions?
What does the FCA’s recent Dear CEO letter mean for e-Money and payments institutions?
Gareth Mahoney, Head of Compliance at Moorwand After uncovering a range of issues during recent visits to over 100 e-Money and payments institutions, the FCA published its latest ‘Dear CEO’ letter. The letter took a completely different approach to usual. Instead of focusing on a single area and then pushing for full compliance, the FCA broke down the many facets of a regulated firm and looked at them individually.
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