Banking In A Post-Pandemic World – What To Expect Banks had an unprecedented year in 2020. In a matter of months, they transformed into almost fully digital operations with remote workers delivering services from their homes. To support them, regulators eased capital requirements and provided liquidity, and banks were able to play a
Virtual Onboarding: Delivering A Meaningful Experience In a previous article published on the Intuition blog, the underpinning principles of virtual onboarding best practices were explained. This article builds on the information in that piece, explaining how a meaningful virtual onboarding experience can be provided to new hires despite their virtual location, considering
Virtual Onboarding Best Practices: 5 Underpinning Principles The world of onboarding has been turned on its head over the past year, increasing the importance of virtual onboarding best practices. In 2020, with an aggressive shift to virtual, firms were forced to develop and execute onboarding programs with the aim of simply surviving
Tough New Sustainability Rules Are Here – Is Your Company Ready? On March 10, 2021, the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) came into force. The SFDR – which forms part of the broader EU action plan for sustainable finance – is aimed at promoting disclosures related to sustainability issues. The overall goal is
Burned by GameStop: Lessons for Low-Cost Trading Platforms From “GameStonk” The rise and fall of GameStop dominated headlines in late January – an apparent David-and-Goliath story of small retail investors taking on hedge fund titans. As regulators and traders survey the fallout from the GameStop spike, however, a different story is emerging, with
Gamestop, Wall St Bets And Robinhood – What Happened & Why? In January we had a curious situation involving Gamestop stock. The underlying stock GME, was on the face of it unlikely to be the center of such a wild move. GME is a bricks and mortar retail video and games
The Rise And Further Rise Of Bitcoin? Bitcoin, BTC is on a tear. In 2020 Bitcoin rose more than 300%, and in the first two weeks of January it rose 50%. Is this just speculation or are there other drivers behind its rise? The answer is both. Unlike other crypt
What's New In Know-How v58? Intuition has released the latest version of Know-How, the premier digital learning solution for financial services. This release features several updates, including: 23 New Tutorials The further addition of 60 individual video nuggets New ESG & SRI content New Quantitative Trading content A brand-new series on Consumer (Retail)
Just What Is Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Anyway? Around the world, rich economies are facing a historically unprecedented set of problems, including aging populations, slow growth, low or negative interest rates, and deflation. This novel set of economic issues, which has emerged in country after country over the last few decades, demands novel
2021: Five Predictions For The Year Ahead After an extremely challenging year, many companies and households are looking to 2021 with a mixture of hope and trepidation. As vaccine rollouts begin, optimism is rising – many businesses and economists now hope that the economic recovery will be faster and stronger than expected. Nevertheless,
