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Payments Modernisation in Middle East & North Africa: Trends and Opportunity

Over the past few years, the banking sector has gone through a massive transformation, with the modernisation of payments at the epicentre of this...

How to effectively deliver AI-powered analytics in the age of digital banking

First, the bad news: COVID-19 hit the region's banks hard. According to KPMG, H1 2020 net profits for the GCC banking sector were down...

Open Banking without Strong Customer Authentication creates bad customer experience and leaves banks vulnerable. So why adopt one without the other?

Regulators around the world are implementing various incarnations of Open Banking with the goal of changing how payments are made in their regions. They...

Data, the oil of the 21st Century

Internet security blog posts are usually more at home on the inside pages of IT trade periodicals than on the front pages of international...

Tax technology is transforming compliance for banks in Saudi Arabia

Since digitalization affects every facet of banking operations, KPMG latest Banking Perspectives report touched base on the scope and future of banking automation in...

Hybrid wealth management: best of both worlds or wishful thinking?

Since March last year, we have seen banks triple their revenue through online channels. That’s great, but what we aren’t seeing with these stats...

The Role of Start-ups in Economic Recovery and Growth

As the world continues to recover from the impact of the pandemic, the potential for start-ups to stimulate and accelerate economic recovery takes centre...

How to attract and retain female talent in a male-dominated industry

The global pandemic has forced us to look at our workforces in a new light and to consider how to make them more future-proof,...

Cryptocurrencies still a speculative play

Cryptocurrencies continue to be speculative instruments, which investors mostly use as a store of value rather than a means for commerce, despite some moves...

Tips for Fintech collaboration success

Darwin was certainly onto something long before the terms “fintech” or “start-up” were part of the regular business vernacular. Collaboration is undoubtedly critical to...

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