Laura Crozier

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  IoT

  Financial services trends 2022: A season of sequels?

  Whereas new movies in 2022 are easy enough to predict, with sequels from Top Gun Maverick (May), to Mission:Impossible 7 (September) and Avatar 2 (December), there is a lot less certainty in financial markets. Predicting the most likely developments in the banking and insurance industry is much more difficult given the uncertainties coming from the Covid-19 pandemic, higher interest rates,…

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  News

  2021: The new-normal lifecycle for banking

  It would be impossible to talk about predictions for the banking industry in 2021 without mentioning the cataclysmic impact that 2020 and the pandemic has had on people, businesses and countries. Unlike with the global financial crisis, banks have been able to step up as “good guys” this time around, rebuilding their reputations as well as accelerating digital transformation. One…

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  Integration & APIs

  Financial Services 2020: This Time it’s Different

  Fear and uncertainty in markets plus giant leaps in technological advances mean that 2020 will look very different for banking and insurance companies. By the end of the year survivors will have progressed so far down the digital transformation road that they will be unrecognizable compared with the past.   And the losers will fade into the background – either acquired, or bought…

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  Integration & APIs

  What does Freedom as a Service Mean for Financial Services?

  At Software AG, we define freedom in terms of our customers. So, what does “Freedom as a Service”’ mean for banking customers? Banking has come a long way since Software AG was founded 50 years ago; around then Barclays launched the first ATM in London, England.  It took until 1985 for the new technology to work its way across the pond to…

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