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May 2023

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Transforming human capital into a competitive advantage and the role of companies

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Transformation-People & Performance: Building human capital also pays off for firms in the form of more consistent earnings and greater resilience during a crisis. When companies emphasize skill development, it pays off for workers. Some firms prioritize developing their employees and managing to deliver top-tier profitability at the same time. Some firms prioritize developing their employees and managing to deliver top-tier profitability at the same time.  People + Performance Winners have a distinctive organizational signature…

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Banking

Economic uncertainty and liquidity approach for banks

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Interest rates are rising and continued economic uncertainty, absolute time to be more structured and systematic liquidity precision. As inflation pressures continuing, central banks across the globe are heightening up interest rates and cramping monetary policies, forcing banks to contend with scarcer and more expensive liquidity this year and onward.  Financials of different banks indicate, these forces have already reduced their liquidity coverage ratios (LCRs) and net stable funding ratios (NSFRs). Further deterioration will increase…

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Economy

Fate of globalization and resilience

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Whether it was wrongly predicted the demise of globalization for what seems like years. Now, given the war in Ukraine and other disruptions, many are once again sounding its death knell. Is it really in retreat. The streams of goods, the real touchable substance, have leveled off after nearly twenty years and above of growing at twice the rate of Gross Domestic Products (GDP). But the flows of goods kept pace with GDP and even…

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Innovation

AI-proofing your career starts in college

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Students must take it on themselves to make their education more flexible, integrating practical skills with the critical-thinking abilities that will be more highly valued in the age of robots The job market has never offered any guarantees. Mechanisation wiped out once-secure careers in manufacturing. Now artificial intelligence is coming for a future generation of jobs that had seemed safe, starting with software coding and back-office work. So what can you do about it?Despite some hyperbolic…

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Banking

Banks consider alike tech companies

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As traditional banks grapple with how to compete in a world of digital-native start-ups and changing customer desires, they cannot avoid the problem of aging core technology. The architecture of banks’ legacy systems does not lend itself to achieving the rapid pace of innovation that is becoming the norm for technology businesses.Next-gen cloud core- the rapid evolution in retail and commercial banking: Just going into a fundamentally different era of how financial services need to be…

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