Monday Morning Moan - Branded! You don’t become digitally-enabled through ritual disemvowelment
A simple way to get more digitally-enabled - some alphabetical colonic irrigation is in order to purge your vowels. Srsly!
Financial services and fintech
Bank of America profits double as digital engagement soars during COVID-19
Customers across the Bank of America business are embracing digital tools and the financial institution provides a positive outlook as it recovers from COVID-19.
SAP makes a dedicated move on the financial services sector on the back of strong preliminary Q1 numbers
SAP pleases the market with strong preliminary Q1 numbers as it eyes up growth in the financial services sector.
Study - accelerated by the pandemic, people trust robots more than humans to manage money
As financial anxieties and stress shot up through the pandemic, consumers and business leaders have turned to artificial intelligence to take the strain. Juergen Lindner breaks down the findings from Oracle's latest research.
Coupa ends fiscal 2021 on a strong note as customer focus on spend management remains high on the corporate agenda
Strong revenue growth and better-than-Wall-Street-expected net income reflects the ongoing importance of spend management, particularly at a time of global crisis.
Insurance giant Liberty Mutual shifts to cloud to improve European customer offering
“Simpler, customised and faster customer and partner service” being delivered via Liberty Mutual’s new digital insurance ecosystem
Digital banking - NatWest and HSBC bank on automation and analytics to capitalise on the customer shift online
NatWest and HSBC are shoring up their digital assets to support growth and changing customer behaviors as well as fending off the threat of new challenger banks.
Digital banking - Lloyds Banking Group saddles up public cloud, machine learning and advanced analytics for its next transformation phase
Lloyds Banking Group put down a £3 billion digital marker in 2018 and it looks to have paid off to date. Where to next as the pace of transformation hots up post-pandemic?
Building a Bitcoin-based business - Travala's crypto-transactions journey
Travala is a travel site that is banking on Bitcoin, blockchain and an internally-developed token to create a system that can take on Sabre as the next-generation travel platform.
ECOMMPAY aims for personalised payment services with ThoughtSpot
ECOMMPAY wants to be a different kind of payment partner, offering bespoke solutions to merchants. ThoughtSpot offers a different kind of BI to support its mission.
Re-inventing the flywheel - how Walmart plans to transform retail as the COVID e-commerce boom slows down
It's time for Walmart to get started on what comes next as the world's largest retailer ramps up its e-commerce ambitions and eyes up new revenue opportunities.
Atom Bank boosts customer satisfaction with move to Google Cloud
We get an update from Atom Bank CTO Rana Bhattacharya on the challenger bank’s cloud journey with Google.
Friday Rant - ‘Who let the Doge out?’, carping on the Diem and other cryptocurrency conundrums
The week started by considering cryptocurrency's contribution to climate change, so let's end it by cashing in with a wider shakedown of the sector...
