What are Transfer Agents?
Category: Industry Insights Date: 15/03/19

What are Transfer Agents?

We thought it would be helpful to unravel some of the contents of the ‘black box’ which is the UK financial services industry – estimated to be worth well over £176 billion in 2018. (Source: Finance Feeds).

By: Digiterre

What’s MiFID II and where are we now?
Category: Industry Insights Date: 28/02/19

What’s MiFID II and where are we now?

So, the snappily named ‘Markets in Financial Instruments Directive’ has been applicable across the European Union since as long ago as November 2007. It’s basically a cornerstone of the EU’s regulation of financial markets. It does two things essentially: All of MiFID, in summary, aimed to remove barriers to cross-border financial services within Europe ...

By: Lape Runsewe

Data driven strategies are transforming the energy sector
Category: Industry Insights Date: 12/12/18

Data driven strategies are transforming the energy sector

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

Security fears must not restrain public sector digital transformation
Category: Industry Insights Date: 05/12/18

Security fears must not restrain public sector digital transformation

The public sector should progress citizen engagement and online experiences in a visionary and transformative way, learning from major private sector platforms and pioneering wherever it can and wherever it’s cost-effective to do so. Easier said than done, for sure. However fears over cybersecurity can restrain such large-scale transformation programmes and in turn, limit ...

By: James Fraser

Digitally transforming the public sector using an Agile approach has its challenges
Category: Industry Insights Date: 13/11/18

Digitally transforming the public sector using an Agile approach has its challenges

The ‘Agile’ methodology has swept across the landscape of customised software and digital development for huge numbers of organisations around the globe, gathering momentum especially over the last 15 to 20 years. It can best be described as ‘the ability to create and respond to change in order to succeed in an uncertain and turbulent environment’ (Source: ...

By: James Fraser

Digital transformation in government – more than just rhetoric?
Category: Industry Insights Date: 11/11/18

Digital transformation in government – more than just rhetoric?

Digital transformation is one of those phrases that easily slips off the tongues of MDs and CEOs for pretty much any sort of business or public sector organisation. It gives the impression of ambition, achievement, success and change – or at least the ambition for great change. Perhaps it’s straight out of the ‘How To…’ ...

By: James Fraser