The financial services industry looks set to change dramatically over the next couple of years in response to COVID-19. The pandemic has certainly highlighted some inefficiencies and weak spots in current processes for many businesses, such as those dealing with a high level of consumer credit checks, for example.

The financial services industry looks set to change dramatically over the next couple of years in response to COVID-19. The pandemic has certainly highlighted some inefficiencies and weak spots in current processes for many businesses, such as those dealing with a high level of consumer credit checks, for example.

Lawyer Imran Ahmad, a partner at Toronto’s Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, specializes in cybersecurity, privacy and technology law. He’s also the author of a preparation and response handbook entitled Cybersecurity in Canada: A Guide to Best Practices, Planning, and Management.

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV) a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology, today announced that Absa Regional Operations (ARO) has moved to Fiserv to support credit card management and processing in nine African nations.

Reuters Events have today launched their flagship insurance event, The Future of Insurance USA (November 16-18^th 2020). The Future of Insurance USA is the industry’s most senior strategic conference, uniting top decision makers from across the insurance ecosystem. This one-of-a-kind event comprises of 3 days of C-level led, executive discussion on the trends and challenges that are transforming our rapidly evolving industry.

The incredible rise of the fintech sector over the past few years has brought with it some huge innovations behind the scenes. Kubernetes, a technology you’ve probably seen but might not understand, is one of the most important infrastructure technologies - without it, we wouldn’t have seen anywhere near the level of progress that we have.

Reuters Events hosts the leading, North American institutional investor forum bringing financially critical ESG insights to mainstream investors. Join a two-day agenda that provides market leading strategies alongside practical ESG guidance, delivered by leading asset managers, asset owners, senior regulators, policy makers, data innovators and more.

Reuters Events hosts the leading institutional investor forum for delivering strategic ESG insights to drive forward-thinking investment policy. Join a two-day agenda that provides market leading strategies alongside practical ESG guidance, delivered by leading asset managers, asset owners, senior regulators, policy makers, data innovators and more.

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Asset Control and Finmechanics have announced a new technology partnership to provide banks with an accelerated approach to The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) preparedness, both standardised approach and internal models approach (IMA) and other regulatory imperatives. Non-modellable risk factors and profit and loss (P/L) discrepancies, in particular, can be quickly identified and addressed. The solution tightly integrates data management with risk analytics, providing new standards of agility and operational efficiency.