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Click to Pay: bye-bye credit card number
Click to Pay is the catchy name of a new process that is set to become established in German online retail in 2023.

Labor shortage rather than skills shortage: competition for workers is intensifying
The word “skilled” will have to be deleted from the phrase “shortage of skilled workers”!

ESG data collection – a challenge for the operational lending business?
The increasing scope of ESG data requirements, however, poses significant challenges for financial institutions.
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Click to Pay: bye-bye credit card number
Click to Pay is the catchy name of a new process that is set to become established in German online retail in 2023.

Labor shortage rather than skills shortage: competition for workers is intensifying
The word “skilled” will have to be deleted from the phrase “shortage of skilled workers”!

ESG data collection – a challenge for the operational lending business?
The increasing scope of ESG data requirements, however, poses significant challenges for financial institutions.

Document verification: use of AI in fraud detection
AI as technological support in the document verification process.

Banking crisis 2.0: banking turmoil raises old familiar questions
zeb.market.flash Q4 2022 (Issue 43 – April 2023): Banking crisis 2.0 and its regulatory implications

Deposit business after the interest rate turnaround – regional banks need a new sales story
Regional banks must rethink and reshape their deposit business. Sales challenges faced by savings banks and cooperative banks.
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Click to Pay: bye-bye credit card number
Click to Pay is the catchy name of a new process that is set to become established in German online retail in 2023.

Labor shortage rather than skills shortage: competition for workers is intensifying
The word “skilled” will have to be deleted from the phrase “shortage of skilled workers”!

ESG data collection – a challenge for the operational lending business?
The increasing scope of ESG data requirements, however, poses significant challenges for financial institutions.

Document verification: use of AI in fraud detection
AI as technological support in the document verification process.

Banking crisis 2.0: banking turmoil raises old familiar questions
zeb.market.flash Q4 2022 (Issue 43 – April 2023): Banking crisis 2.0 and its regulatory implications

Deposit business after the interest rate turnaround – regional banks need a new sales story
Regional banks must rethink and reshape their deposit business. Sales challenges faced by savings banks and cooperative banks.

E2E transformation: breaking down silos for more customer satisfaction, efficiency and entrepreneurship
What are the key factors for long-term customer focus, efficiency and entrepreneurship in E2E transformation?

Private Banking Study Austria 2022
Analysis, simulation, focus topics and outlook: the private banking market in Austria.
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Joining forces: strategic partnerships between banks and fintech companies
The power of collaboration: Thede Küntzel, Manager Projects & Innovation at Sparkasse Bremen, on the opening up of new opportunities for collaboration between banks and fintechs.

From bank to B2B payment service provider: the exciting journey of a sustainable fintech company
In the interview with Marco Wolf, co-founder of UK start-up Novus World Ltd, we talk about how it all began, the challenges NOVUS had to overcome when dealing with venture capitalists, and what comes next.

Crypto crisis: the end of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies or a wake-up call for stronger regulation?
The crypto debate: Is the crypto crisis the end of Bitcoin & other cryptocurrencies, or a call for stronger regulation? In this interview, Dr. Nils Bulling, Head of Strategic Innovation, Ecosystem & Digital Assets at Avaloq, shares his personal view on the current crisis in the crypto market and his predictions of how cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin could develop in the future.

Putting an end to greenwashing accusations – innovative ESG data solutions in the fund industry
How innovative ESG data solutions provide more transparency in the fund industry.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics in the financial services sector
The term “artificial intelligence” refers to technologies that emulate and support human abilities in seeing, hearing, analyzing, deciding and acting.

Asset Management: what is it? Definition and development
The term “asset management” refers to the financial service of managing assets by means of financial instruments with the aim of increasing the invested assets.

Chatbots and voicebots – how do they actually work?
How can chatbots & voicebots act flexibly with AI + respond autonomously? All about conversational AI for chatbots & voicebots.

Digital assets – what is it all about? Definition and development of a market that will be worth billions
Which drivers will influence the market environment for digital assets in the future?

Digital assistants – what is it all about?
The extent to which digital assistants are gaining in importance for future-oriented customer interaction.

Digital euro – definition and benefits
The digital euro is coming. The digital euro’s design will determine how it is going to benefit citizens and banks.

End-to-end organization (E2E)
E2E processes encompass a ready-to-go service delivery concept that covers the entirety of customer needs – at least from their point of view.

ESG – What does ESG mean for the financial sector?
Sustainability is a megatrend that permeates all levels of social life. What impact do ESG (environmental, social and governance) criteria have on banks? – Challenges and opportunities for banks.

Intelligent process automation – what’s that? Definition and development
Intelligent process automation refers to the transformation of business processes that previously could not be automated, because they involved the processing of unstructured data, and therefore had to be performed manually.
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