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Beyond Automated Advice: How FinTech is shaping asset & wealth management
The 2016 PwC Global FinTech Survey gathered the views of 544 respondents from 46 countries, principally Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), Heads of Innovation, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and top management involved in digital and technological transformation, distributed among five regions. The asset and wealth management-focused cut is based on the responses of 163 respondents from the asset and wealth management sector around the globe.
The $5 billion opportunity for reinsurers
New research commissioned by PwC highlights the extent to which blockchain could reduce the processing time and cost of placement, claims settlement and key processes such as compliance checks, e.g. sanctions (other compliance checks noted for wholesale insurance include AML/KYC). The research also showed that blockchain solutions can provide a better view of identity and risk. And given the amount of data flowing between client, broker, reinsurer and outsource service providers, all of which requires multiple data entry and reconciliation, the transformational potential within reinsurance is even greater.
Emerging Markets Driving the payments transformation
In this paper, we examine the current state of the payments industry across the emerging markets, identify key drivers and developments already underway and determine what is required to realise the market potential between now and 2030. A key focus of the paper is the steps being taken by merchants, customers, payment companies, regulators and PSPs towards creating a successful electronic payments infrastructure.
Chain Reaction: How Blockchain Technology Might Transform Wholesale Insurance
The purpose of the study is to identify practical uses for blockchain technology in wholesale insurance. Practical means having high value to individual firms and relatively low barriers to implementation, without requiring widespread industry consensus or regulatory change.
Blurred lines:How FinTech is shaping Financial Services
This PwC report assesses the rise of new technologies in the financial services sector across the globe, the potential impact of FinTech on market players and their attitudes regarding the latest in technology developments. Additionally, it offers insight as to the responses of the sector to this ever-changing environment.
A Strategist’s Guide to Blockchain
The distributed ledger technology that started with bitcoin is rapidly becoming a crowdsourced system for all types of verification. Could it replace notary publics, manual vote recounts, and the way banks manage transactions?
Q & A – What’s next for blockchain in 2016?
Blockchain technology is being adopted at unprecedented speed. Financial institutions are realizing the potential of this next-generation business process improvement software to alter shared practices between customers, competitors, and suppliers. Blockchain may result in a radically different future for financial services. The authors see three trends to focus on in 2016.
Money is no object: Understanding the evolving cryptocurrency market
The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of what cryptocurrency is and how much consumers know about it. In addition, we discuss potential positive uses of this new instrument.
