Creating Hyper-Personalized Financial Services in the Age of Data
By Reg Marrinier The global pandemic has accelerated the rise of the digital economy, driving financial institutions to continuously contemplate the next big innovation to differentiate their service offerings. With huge stores of transactional data and client histories, financial institutions need to activate the value of data assets if they …
Why Purchase Data Drives Customer Engagement
By Jason Howard Who hasn’t looked at their bank statement at one point and thought, “wait a minute, what’s this transaction again?” And often, there isn’t enough information on our digital bank statements to help us make sense of our purchase history. In most cases though, these confusing statement descriptors …
How Finance Leaders Set the Pace for Businesses to Thrive
By Daniel Oh No preceding crisis in our lifetime could have prepared Canadian businesses for the impact of COVID-19, which transformed a swath of industries at an unprecedented scale. Yet even as vaccination rates increase and workers slowly return to the office, fewer than 40 per cent of businesses with …
Futurpreneur’s Black Entrepreneur Startup Program Opens New Doors
Futurpreneur has been celebrating the early success of its Black Entrepreneur Startup Program (BESP), which has provided critical financing, mentorship and business resources to Canada’s Black entrepreneurs during its first six months of operation. The program, which is a funding collaboration with Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) with additional loan …
Are You Losing Out on Potential Funding?
By Trevor Chew Has your organization ever received a refund from its group benefits plan? If not, then you may be losing out on potential funding. If you only claimed 75 percent of what was paid towards group health benefits and the benefits provider kept 25 percent, would this represent …
How Foreign Currency Supports Charity
By Dennis Ullman and Scott Hutchings It is estimated that over $2 Billion in foreign currency is currently stored or saved in Canadian homes and businesses. This currency has no use or real value in Canada. As a result, foreign currency (notes and coins), pennies, and loose change are found …
Sage partners with Zapier to elevate the work of SMBs with the power of automation
Unlocking new ways to automate workflows and save an average of 10 hours per week on manual, repetitive tasks TORONTO, ON–Sage, the market leader in cloud business management solutions, announced the availability of Zapier, the workflow automation platform for business, on the Sage Marketplace in Canada, US, UK and Ireland. …
The three horsemen of cyber risks: misinformation, disinformation, and fake news
Insights from Pythagoras N. Petratos The risks associated with misleading information can have a profoundly negative impact. A study aims to provide recommendations on responding to the new digital age challenges. Misleading information has emerged as one of the leading cyber risks in our society, affecting political leaders, nations, and …
Canadian SMBs weathered COVID disruptions, but struggling to meet workers’ new demands, new Sage study finds
Two in five companies have shifted priorities in the last six months to drive growth and innovation, but find it challenging to hire and mitigate employee burnout TORONTO, ON–Sage, the market leader in cloud business management solutions, partnered with the Angus Reid Group for a newly commissioned report, Forward Together: …
Banking the Unbanked Markets
Fintech Taking the Driver Seat to the Unbanked, Contrasting Financial Landscapes By Michael Penner Over the last decade the global payments industry has seen tremendous growth, providing increased convenience and opportunity to both businesses and consumers, but advancement does not always happen quickly or uniformly. In Canada, the total payments market …