Given Asia-Pacific’s rich technology ecosystem, rapid economic growth trajectory and growing middle class, the region has long been tipped for major digital growth. APAC’s recent activity in financial and insurance ...
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New York City has long been home to some of the world’s biggest banks and their key decision makers. So, it should come as no surprise that the Big Apple ...
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The status of the U.S. as the driving force of developments in financial services technology, fintech, is beginning to wane. Start-ups elsewhere in the world are increasingly attracting big funders. ...
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Digital leaders across all industries are recognizing that fast-emerging platform ecosystems provide opportunities for new kinds of growth and capital rewards. According to the 2016 Accenture Technology Vision report, 82 ...
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Soaring investment in financial services technology, fintech, presents insurers with a big challenge: How best to respond? Such is the fast pace of change in the fintech sector, and its ...
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In the last five years, new players have started joining the ever-changing ecosystem of insurance distribution. Some have come from a brand new sector: Financial technology. Accenture research shows approximately ...
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Since 2010 more than $50 billion has been invested in almost 2,500 financial technology (fintech) start-up companies as new innovators redefine the way in which we store, save, borrow, invest, ...
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As the insurance industry continues to reinvent itself with connected cars, homes and wearables, fintech startups are entering the market in droves, disrupting traditional insurers. Their biggest weapon: the cloud. ...
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In September I had the privilege to meet with all of the chosen start-up participants in the Accenture FinTech Innovation Lab program in Hong Kong. I am delighted to share ...
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Blockchain’s potential to improve dramatically the efficiency, security and transparency of digital transactions has attracted scores of eager start-ups. They’re deploying this highly-promising technology to develop an array of innovative ...
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The appearance of legions of insurtech firms across the world has spurred big insurers to invest heavily in digital technology. Many well-established insurance companies are concerned that these tech-savvy newcomers ...
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Compete, collaborate, consolidate. Innovative tech start-ups muscled their way into the financial services industry a few years ago as aggressive competitors to long-established corporations. During the past year or so ...
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Over the past four or five years, FinTech’s driven innovative disruption deep into the banking and capital markets sectors. Energised by countless start-ups and by born-digital giants like Google, Apple, ...
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An exciting new era is emerging for financial services companies in Canada, as innovations in technology drive new relationships with customers across the country – and beyond our borders. FinTech ...
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This is a time of significant transformation for the payment industry, which is the foundation of our financial and monetary system. From individual consumers to large corporations, payments underlie the ...
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My previous blog pointed out how, when it comes to investing in technology startups, the insurance industry’s definitely following the strong example set by banking and capital markets. This time, ...
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Letting a robot make high-stakes financial decisions for you might seem like the stuff of science fiction. But people have been turning over their investments to “robo-advisors” for nearly a ...
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Since their debut in 2008, financial robo-advisors have rapidly attracted attention and investment. Today they manage more than $50 billion worth of assets, which could grow to $7 trillion within ...
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As we’ve seen, robo-advisors have shaken up the wealth management industry over the last decade. Their impact is beginning to spread to other industries—including insurance. One of the most prominent ...
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Robo-advisors were first used in wealth management, but, as we’ve seen, they are beginning to pop up in the world of insurance. With no clear market-leader in this service right ...
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