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Green Finance: Making the Transition to a Climate-Resilient Future
A Digital Future: Financial Services and the Generation Game

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Automated Impact: Managing economic and employment shifts

Although much of the ongoing discussion on the dramatic loss of manufacturing jobs has focused on the role of global trade and globalisation, automation has had a far greater impact. Learn more by reading our article below. 

 

Unions and the power of social media

While workers previously had reason to worry about using electronic communications to express grievances and organize, a 2014 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling decided that workers are permitted to use work email to discuss wage and other workplace issues, as well for labor organizing. Learn more by downloading our article below. 

 

With populism on the wane, what’s the upshot for the markets?

The markets have breathed an audible sigh of relief this spring.

Symbiosis. Your bank has your trust, can fintech make you love it?

Rather than hand-to-hand combat, banks are learning to love fintech in the hope that it will lead us to love our banks, too. This strategic U-turn by traditional banks has been quick—less than 12 months. However, building a loving, symbiotic relationship may take a little longer. We surveyed 200 global banking executives to investigate the challenges retail banks face in the years to 2020 and how they are responding.

Global Retail Banking Report 2017

The Economist Intelligence Unit, on behalf of Temenos, surveyed 200 global banking executives to investigate the challenges retail banks face in the years to 2020 and how they are responding. 

Some key findings: 

Asia’s opportunity to take the trade initiative

With US President Donald Trump quickly making good on campaign promises to end or renegotiate the country’s participation in major trade deals, and Brexit calling European integration into question, free trade has fallen out of fashion across much of the developed world. President Trump’s pledges to slap punitive tariffs on exports from countries like China and Mexico have also raised the spectre of a broader trade war. Yet some experts see reason for optimism - and an opportunity for Asia to fill the void left by the historical advocates of trade liberalisation.

MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS OF CRISIS MANAGERS BELIEVE THE WORLD WILL BECOME A RISKIER PLACE TO DO BUSINESS IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS

Asset owners rethink their strategies - Mike McGavick

Watch Mike McGavick, CEO of XL Group, as he talks about the following topics:

  1. Challenges for insurers
  2. Managing data complexity
  3. Regulatory change
  4. Sustainable investing
  5. Innovation

Asset owners rethink their strategies - Chris Hitchen

In this video sponsored by BNP Paribas, Chris Hitchen, Chief Executive of RPMI, shares with us his views on the following topics:

Survey Highlights Document

The survey sample includes members of the millennial cohort, Generation X and baby boomer generations. About 58% of respondents are male; nearly half have completed or are in the process of securing a four-year college degree or higher qualification; and nearly 90% work full-time. Slightly more than half live in suburban areas, and nearly two-thirds have been union members for ten years or longer.

 

Key Findings:

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