A study this September by analytics database firm Exasol explored how energy companies are becoming more data-centric in their decision-making, but it found that surprisingly still only 17 per cent of energy companies are implementing a data-driven strategy.
By: Lape Runsewe
Some energy CEOs will see digital as a risk to their business model, but the more visionary ones in the sector will see digital as a route to not just greater efficiencies but new and greater business opportunities.
By: Lape Runsewe
Digiterre congratulates Debtwire, the leading global publisher of market information and intelligence on the distressed debt and leveraged finance markets, on 15 years of outstanding and pioneering growth. Debtwire is a key company of Acuris, a media organisation specialising in high value content for financial professionals.
By: Lape Runsewe
How are you coping under the daily deluge of Brexit headlines? ‘Brextra time..!’, ‘ No deal Brexit could lead to £36bn bill’ or ‘Great Britain or Great Betrayal?’.
By: Lape Runsewe
It’s January 2019 – and who’d have thought we’d still know so little about Brexit’s implications for business? For none more so than financial service organisations including the boom sector of ‘fintech’. Valued at approximately £4.5bn, the UK holds about 80% share of fintech, according to The Financier. So will London remain the “fintech ...
By: Lape Runsewe
Amid all the unknowns surrounding Brexit, one thing is certain: whatever happens with regard to the EU trading passport, the Capital Markets Union and the effect on Foreign Direct Investment, it will force a re-examination of your business practices and structure.
By: Lape Runsewe
As the complexity and speed of change in the tech ecosystem for financial services increase, so do the risks involved. Huge investment in digital capabilities and emerging technologies, together with continued customer and market impacting technology failures have driven regulators to enforce much, much tighter rules of engagement. As a result, since the financial crisis, ...
By: Lape Runsewe
If you’re looking for a market that’s being turned on its head by technology, you don’t need to go much further than capital markets. You may say look what Uber has done to ride-hailing, Amazon has done to retail…but just take a look at what robo advisors are doing to investment ...
By: Lape Runsewe
Trends such as artificial intelligence (AI), digital banking, data automation, big data and analytics have now taken a stronghold, perhaps even stranglehold, on financial markets and are clearly here to stay. Fintech continues to gather pace as an increasing number of firms in the financial services sector get up to speed on the latest emerging ...
By: Lape Runsewe
Blockchain is the buzzword in the financial services sector and big changes are on the way for the sector; but what sort of benefits and changes is it bringing to financial services? Let’s firstly remind ourselves what blockchain is and its role for cryptocurrencies.
By: Lape Runsewe
The revenue benefits to financial services of intelligent automation (IA) are staggering – a recent Cap Gemini survey showed growth due to IA in the sector is expected to reach well over £400 billion globally by 2020 alone. And these are additional to the multiple cost saving benefits. Improved customer satisfaction, faster time-to-market and improved cross-selling are some ...
By: Lape Runsewe
There’s been loads of hype and speculation about the impact of process robotics on jobs and on offshoring and outsourcing. But is real progress being made for organisations? Is return on investment (ROI) being achieved by the early adopters?
By: Lape Runsewe