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Featured5 Questions Every Financial Firm Should Ask Before Starting a Technology RFP
A short briefing for CTOs, CIOs and sourcing leads, the structural questions most RFPs assume have already been answered, and the cost of getting them wrong.
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FeaturedThe Unseen Giant in Finance: Transformation and Innovation in Pensions
Transformation and innovation in pensions, an analysis of global pension trends and technological innovation, with a spotlight on Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Team Sheet
Strawpath's World Cup UK Startup XI
A finance-CTO's scouting report on seventeen UK deep tech startups quietly reshaping the infrastructure beneath banking, payments and trading.
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Why Financial Firms Need Logical and Structured Vendor Selection Processes
Five reasons why regulated financial firms must use a structured vendor selection process, from regulatory accountability to service continuity.
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Why You Need a Business-Aligned Technology Strategy Before Vendor Selection
Vendor selection without a business-aligned technology strategy quietly hands the strategy to the vendor. What needs to be settled first, and why.
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Why the Build vs. Buy Question Is Almost Always Asked Too Late
Most organisations frame build vs. buy after the budget has already been shaped. How to bring the conversation forward to where it can still change the answer.
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How to Tell a Vendor AI Roadmap From a Vendor AI Story
Five architectural signals that distinguish a genuine AI capability from a marketing response to market pressure.
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Key Considerations During Market Scans, Before Shortlisting Vendors
What a defensible market scan looks like, and what gets lost when the first four vendors on a list become the only four.
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AI Adoption Strategies in Finance, Banking and Pensions
A six-mode framework, from passive ghost AI to commercialised AI products, for placing your organisation honestly on the adoption spectrum.
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The Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP)
A case study on the EU's PEPP, with a focus on technology, innovation and engagement, featuring contributions from Dr. Francesco Briganti, Jorik van Zanden and Gianluca Mauro.
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