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Amid the cut-and-thrust of international banking, it’s hard to set a truly global benchmark for the world’s biggest banks. With the sheer diversity of local markets, it’s not always possible to compare apples with apples. By one’s region’s standards - say, the well established Western Europe bankin ...

Colin Dinn, the CTO of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) - Thailand’s largest retail bank - joined the organisation in April 2016 with a big remit: to build new technological capacity and help create “Thailand’s most admired bank”. Achieving this required a ruthless audit of all of SCB’s existing systems, and for Dinn, a key target was the bank’s existing collections software.

Southeast Asia is a diverse and culturally rich collection of nations, each at differing stages of economic development and each posing unique complexities in the banking sector. The region also holds enormous economic potential: Southeast Asia is one of the most rapidly developing regions in the wo ...

In the last few years, a wave of change has swept through the Middle East’s traditionally conservative banking sector. Bumper oil revenues had kept the region’s economies afloat, and substantial public investment by governments brimful with cash had transformed nations like Saudi Arabia and the UAE ...

The debt collections process involves countless data points, multiple people and numerous channels of communication. For those reasons, it’s also fraught with friction points. Perhaps it’s the overburdened Excel spreadsheet from which you run your collections, or maybe it’s a lack of cohesive strate ...

Digital transformation has never been more of a hot topic. 79% of North American banking leaders believe their bank’s existence will be threatened if they don’t innovate faster. However, “digital transformation” is also a loaded phrase: it can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different peo ...

No industry is safe from the fast march of digital progress, and the banking sector is no different. In Europe alone, well over a thousand fintech companies have launched in the last decade and, as of 2016 according to Accenture, these same fintechs make up almost 7% of the industry's overall annual ...

Try as we might change customer opinion, debt collections has struggled to shake its bad reputation in both established and emerging markets. Regionally, this could be down to a multitude of factors; from cultural differences and complicated local court systems to overly aggressive collections pract ...

There are forces at work aiming to reshape the banking sector, and retail banks need to choose whether they want to brace for impact or lead the charge. With 2018 winding to close and retail banking in a state of perpetual change, everyone's eyes are currently in 2019. According to Roberto Ferrari, ...

Between 2015 and 2016, World Bank figures reveal that the average proportion of all loans that are non-performing (NPLs) rose over half a per cent from 6.99% to 7.07%. According to Gartner, the cost of servicing a delinquent loan is now 15 times higher than the cost of servicing a performing loan. ...