Tag: Risk Management
Is Cybersecurity Risk the M&A Blindspot?
By Ryan Sheldrake, Field CTO – EMEA, Lacework Global M&A activity is still well down from its historic peak in 2021, however many analysts are predicting a return to healthy levels in the coming year. Accurately assessing the value and risks around any target company lies at the core of the mergers and acquisitions (M&A)…
An Assessment of Risk Management in Banking
Guest post by, Charlotte Lin, a content creator at escaperoom.com. She’s a passionate young woman, mother to an amazing nine-year-old, and an avid reader. Over the years, writing has helped her explore and understand the world as well as her own self. She loves to travel, meet new people, and spend quality time with her…
5 Risks of Starting a Fintech Business and How to Avoid Them
Devin Partida is a prolific writer about crypto, open banking and fintech for publications like Worth, Due, Yahoo! Finance and Entrepreneur. Starting a business in financial technology (fintech) is a smart investment for the direction in which the world is moving. High-speed digital transactions will dominate the global market for years to come, and your…
How Fintechs are Leveraging Technology to Develop New and Innovative Credit-Scoring Models
The more effective your credit scoring model is, the better your bank’s lending programs will be. More than any other factor, how deeply your financial institution determines prospective borrowers will decide the size and profitability of your lending book. Your loan decision process has to be fast, accurate, and low-risk. That is if you want…
High-Risk Customers are Driving the Growth in Fintech
This is a guest post by Kathy Romanovskaya, CEO & Founder of A.ID, a compliance-as-a-service company. Financial technology may have revolutionized the way we deliver financial services… but traditional banks still shape the cooperation in the new economy. It is especially visible in high-risk segments, which are growing by day and becoming a considerable market…
Credit Suisse, time for some real digital transformation?
In case you have missed it, Credit Suisse recently lost a lot of money on a bet that turned sour. Actually, on several bets that happened to all go in the wrong direction, at roughly the same time. What is really going on at the Swiss bank? Isn’t an old incumbent bank inherently good at…
What can you do with AI in Financial Services?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is probably the biggest buzzword in the business and finance world. Yes, even more than blockchain. AI is not particularly new and can trace its roots back to the mid 1950s. However, it is true that developments in computing over the past 20 years have led the field to progress tremendously. It…
