Things recently read, seen, and heard at Qorus - Edition #26

Discover the articles, interviews and a video of this week.

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Ally wins the 2022 Qorus-Accenture Banking Innovation Awards’ best North American Innovation

In 2022, for the first time, we launched a special award for the best North American innovation submitted to the 2022 Qorus-Accenture Banking Innovation Awards. A group of key executives from the Qorus Digital Reinvention Community deliberated over this and selected “Using Platform Thinking to Disrupt Marketing” by Ally Financial. Arvy Rajasekaran, Ally's CIO-Enterprise Architecture, who championed this project and helped bring it to fruition, answered our questions.

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Payments companies shine during insight packed awards ceremony

In September 2022, Qorus and Capgemini launched the Open Finance community with the first area of focus being payments. In December, we held an awards ceremony to highlight the most innovative players in this space and the winners of the latest Qorus-Capgemini NewTech Challenge. An article by community leader Sarah Kocianski.

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Data analytics 2022: Groupe BPCE

Luc Barnaud, Chief Data Officer of Groupe BCPE, talks about his company and its data analytics strategy?for a Qorus-Teradata report entitled "Financial services must learn from other sectors to industrialize and accelerate data analytics".

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Preventing climate change: I see a bright future

As part of our Sustainability & Regulation Community, Qorus, in partnership with TNP, interviewed Marc Irubetagoyena, Global Head of Stress Testing and Financial Simulation at BNP Paribas. Marc told us more about the bank’s plan to stop environmentally harmful funding, the role of the stakeholders, and the main challenges and risks for the bank's net zero portfolio decarbonization strategy. He also explains how they help SMEs reduce their carbon footprint and what are their major projects in social and governance aspects of ESG.

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Lean: Banking the gig workers

Lean is offering a financial benefits ecosystem especially designed for gig workers. Tilak Joshi, its CEO, tells us more about the company and their offer.

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NewTech Friday: invoport – Digitally performing funds administration tasks

Luxembourg fintech startup invoport is one of the five winners of the fourth edition of the LHOFT Catapult: Kickstarter program. Its Founder, Mohammad Khair Arrab, tells us about his solution that makes the job of investment fund administrators and managers much easier.

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How to successfully launch your brand in the metaverse

Developing an effective Metaverse strategy that makes sense for your?organization, without getting overwhelmed by today’s trends, is not that easy. ESCP experts Marie Taillard, Professor of Marketing, and Howard Zhong, Assistant Professor Information & Operations Management, share their thoughts on getting the best out of this rapidly evolving technology.

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Curated industry news

Five associations form industry alliance to guide the UK’s digital currency future. Learn more here.

Digital transformation: where do banks, insurance companies and mutuals stand? Learn more here.

ABN AMRO registers first digital bond on public blockchain. Learn more here.

Axis Bank partners with OPEN to launch a fully digital current account proposition for businesses. Learn more here.

imagin launches imaginAcademy, a digital content programme to promote financial education. Learn more here.

Greenlight reinvents financial education with Level Up — a gamified financial literacy curriculum for kids and teens. Learn more here.

A new report reveals impact of rising car expenses on U.S. household budgets. Learn more here.

77% of consumers feel anxious checking banking apps as cost-of-living challenges bite. Learn more here.

RemotePass launches the first 'super app of financial services & benefits' for remote teams. Learn more here.

IronVest, the world's first decentralized security and privacy super app, is now available for consumers. Learn more here.

Blue to debut a fintech super app for Iraq and the Middle East. Learn more here.

Petnow unveils the world's first ID app for dogs and cats. Learn more here.