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Author:  Ronan O’Dea, Head of Product, Validis   With its article headlined “The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data” The Economist, back in 2017, paved the way for the rallying cry of the last few years that “data is the new oil”. The presumption then was the more oil or data …

Financial data: the renewable power source of SME banking Read More »

21st century technology is now available for firms of all sizes that increases productivity while working remote. During this unprecedented time, brought on by a global pandemic, the need to work completely remote has forced most firms to rethink their processes. The key to any change in process can be answered by a simple question …

Transforming the 21st Century Audit Read More »

As the COVID-19 pandemic threatens millions of small businesses, SMB lenders are on the front line trying to help keep them afloat. Here, we look at how banks can adapt their ways of working, utilizing the very latest financial data assets and technology, to meet a challenge no one predicted. Before it was important. Now …

SMB lenders need better data, now more than ever Read More »

COVID 19 has struck a considerable blow to the global economy. For lenders specifically it has meant huge spikes in credit requests from anxious SMBs, an understanding that their current credit models never expected such a fast economic degradation and a realization that they have a very limited view on current liquidity of their borrowers. The speed at …

How Validis and nCino are offering relief to lenders during COVID 19 Read More »

We are working in unprecedented conditions This is truly a unique and urgent situation. COVID-19 has nearly brought the economy to its knees affecting nearly 30 million small business in the process. While most banks have moved heavily down the “digital banking” path the commercial banking divisions have lagged behind and SMB’s are now insisting …

Supporting Lenders with loan application acceleration during COVID-19 Read More »

With a raft of  SME data now available, the challenge is in being able to access it quickly and efficiently to make it fit for purpose In our last blog, we talked about the lending journeys experienced by both small businesses and the lenders they rely on. With the advent of digitalisation and a proliferation of accounting software solutions …

Real-time management account data the key for SME lenders Read More »

How lenders can use data to drive quicker, more informed  loan decisions for small and medium sized businesses. Small businesses in search of working capital often rely on loans to help them through choppy early waters. In some cases, relatively small amounts can mean the difference between success and failure.  Banks and other lenders are constantly looking for ways …

Two sides of the same coin – The SME lending journey Read More »

Sir Donald Brydon has published his eagerly anticipated review into audit quality and effectiveness and has included submissions from Validis on how to implement technology changes that will fundamentally improve the audit quality and help identify fraud. The Report makes 64 recommendations on how to deliver a more robust and transparent audit framework in the …

Validis supports Sir Donald Brydon’s audit quality review Read More »

There is a technological revolution occurring across financial and professional services that, coupled with changing consumer expectation and behaviour, creates an opportunity to drive a step change in the quality and effectiveness (audit efficiency) of the audit practice. Audit is under pressure Recent high-profile commercial failures have only increasedscrutiny on a market that has long …

Walking the regulatory tight rope: How to deliver a higher quality audit Read More »