Steffen Lorenz

Steffen Lorenz

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  • App & Data Integration

    The ESG Data Challenge — Develop Your Strategy

    In part one of this miniseries on sustainable finance, the focus was on processes. Equally important is ESG data. The World Economic Forum reports that data is the number one ESG challenge for organizations. ESG data challenges arise from multiple different areas: Data not available: most companies only just started gathering ESG data, and that's mainly bigger corporations. The focus…

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  • Process Management

    The process challenge of sustainable finance

    Global warming, biodiversity under threat, exhaustion of resources, and social inequities. Sustainability is the challenge of the century, with both threats and opportunities to tackle at the same time. Take climate change and the transition to net-zero economies as an example - the impact on financial services companies is huge. The World Economic Forum estimates that $4-5 trillion of global…

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  • App & Data Integration

    Take an agile approach to embedded finance

    Embedded finance is a trend that will significantly change the cooperation of financial services corporations with non-financials, especially small and medium-sized companies. Embedded finance, the seamless integration of financial services adopted by non-financial companies, could comprise a quarter of the banking market with small and medium enterprises (SME) by 2025, equaling $124 billion in revenue, according to Accenture. This estimation…

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  • Process Management

    Process mining helps banks comply with sanctions

    Sanctions violations in banking have become a political hot potato due to the situation in Ukraine.Global sanctions imposed against Russian banks and individuals complicate what is already a tricky problem for financial institutions. Many banks are currently enjoying record profitability, but this is not reflective of the previous decade. When it comes to profitability, according to McKinsey, half of banks…

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