Marco Mottadelli - Community Author: Finextra Research

What’s driving switching mania in Britain – and will it continue?

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

What’s driving switching mania in Britain – and will it continue?

Brits traditionally have been rather loyal when it comes to their banking and financial institutions. The average customer can stay with a bank for years, if not decades. The pandemic further depressed switching, despite processes in place that allow consumers to easily move from one account to another. But that’s now changing. Recent data shows t...

29 December 2021 /retail

How to prepare investment portfolios for possible inflation

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

How to prepare investment portfolios for possible inflation

After a long period of very low inflation in Western Europe and the States, a combination of factors has led to a rather sudden change. Eurozone inflation hit an estimated 3% in August, with one recent study estimating that Britain could see inflation at 3.9% by next year. Much ink has been spilled over the past quarter about whether this represen...

15 October 2021 /markets

Resuming a cross-border life: bringing your bank along for the journey

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

Resuming a cross-border life: bringing your bank along for the journey

Despite the new threat posed by the spread of the delta variant, more people travelled to and inside the European Union during the last two months than any post-pandemic period. We are slowly, sometimes fitfully, shifting away from the local and hyper-local way of living our lives towards something approaching the cosmopolitan and international ap...

31 August 2021 /payments

Providing better solutions for increasingly picky sustainable investors

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

Providing better solutions for increasingly picky sustainable investors

Sustainable investment is having a moment. There are now thousands of funds and indices especially promising to deliver returns along with also meeting a commitment to environmental, sustainability and government metrics. Whereas these options were once a rather niche section of the market, they have grown so rapidly in the past half decade that o...

02 August 2021 /sustainable

How to prepare for investing in more ‘normal’ times

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

How to prepare for investing in more ‘normal’ times

Extreme periods of disruption are seldom quiet. When the stock market moves several percent points in the course of a day, headlines scream while opinion writers speculate on the cause. Such was the case in the latest round of serious market volatility in the latter part of the first quarter 2020. As the pandemic swept around the world, indices fr...

27 July 2021 /markets

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

Providing better solutions for increasingly picky sustainable investors

Sustainable investment is having a moment. There are now thousands of funds and indices specifically promising to deliver returns along with meeting a commitment to environmental, sustainability and government metrics. Whereas these options were once a rather niche section of the market, they have grown so rapidly in the past half decade that one ...

29 April 2021 /sustainable

Why are British investors increasingly crossing the pond to trade?

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

Why are British investors increasingly crossing the pond to trade?

When it comes to their financial portfolios, Britons are looking abroad. Like modern day versions of the proverbial Mrs. Watanabe, market conditions are pushing even relatively modest retail investors beyond their shores. Whereas those Japanese investors were pushed by low yields and inflation at home to seek fortunes in the foreign exchange offer...

14 April 2021 /markets

After Brexit, Britain seizes the moment for unification across banking, trading and investing

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

After Brexit, Britain seizes the moment for unification across banking, trading and investing

Expansion is the name of the game for today’s financial companies. The CEO of PayPal, Dan Schulman, announcing record earnings early this quarter, said that he expects the company to evolve from a digital wallet “into a superapp that transcends across payments and financial services.” The term ‘super app’ comes from China, where AliPay and WeChat ...

11 March 2021 /markets

Using technology to transform, not run around in circles

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

Using technology to transform, not run around in circles

It may strike some as self-evident, but we are the midst of one of the most rapid transformations in the history of the banking centre. At the core of this shift is digital transformation, as the banking industry looks to adapt and synthesise the incredible gains made elsewhere in society and make it relevant for how people save, invest and spend....

17 February 2021 /devops

Why Fintech Innovation will Power Banking’s Next Decade

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

Why Fintech Innovation will Power Banking’s Next Decade

Across a number of industries, the impact of the global pandemic can be summed up at its very core as being one of an accelerating agent. While the virus did not reverse or even necessarily altered the course of growth of certain industries, it rather moved innovation forward. Some technology companies suggested they saw four years of consumer beh...

08 January 2021 /predictions

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