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For Fintechs looking to secure external funding through Private Equity Investment in today’s COVID-19 environment, we walk through the steps and considerations needed to harness your investment for transformative growth. Read More

Climate protection and sustainable business practices have risen significantly on the agenda of bank boards. This partly has to do with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has become all too readily apparent just how rapidly - and... Read More

As part of the global benchmark reform the central objective of which is to make interest rate indices more robust, the ECB set the transition spread from EONIA to the new overnight rate €STR at 8½ bp back in October 2019... Read More

Accountants have been debating whether coronavirus will be seen as an adjusting event for financial statements closing on 31 December 2019 or whether it will be seen as one that impacts 2020 financial year-ends and onwards. The consensus... Read More

Day by day, individuals, companies and governments are assessing the impact of the coronavirus on public health and the global and national economies. Very little is certain except that it is having a wide-ranging impact and will affect... Read More

The new year brings with it new phases in the transition out of IBOR (InterBank Offered Rates). And the momentum is increasing. In 2020, there will be significant milestones in the transition, and for the first time, cash will begin to... Read More

Banking via cell phone has spread faster than most people thought possible. It is Africa’s latest success story, with companies like Kenya’s M-Pesa at the forefront of technology evolution with a user base of more than 37... Read More

I have seen quite a few firms advertising their support for companies during the IBOR transition using buzzwords like artificial intelligence and machine learning. They seem to say that these technologies can ease the pain and suffering... Read More

I recently saw a headline in the Financial Times that said some big banks think that shifting out of LIBOR may cost more than Brexit. I am sure that headline caused a collective gasp in some corners of the United Kingdom.It is hard to... Read More

I’m a fan of James Bond films and can think of at least three films that included scenes on a train. There’s something high-stakes and action-filled about trains on the move.I see some parallels between moving trains and the... Read More