Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blog May 17, 2023 Protiviti insurance experts discuss the future of asset protection in the metaverse "The metaverse could offer an experience that maintains that personal face-to-face interaction in the digital model, when you're able to introduce more visually engaging ways to help buyers understand product features and tradeoffs.""Anything that has value against it, and [virtual assets] are predicted to have significant value against, will have to have different insurance products that will… Blog May 25, 2023 Protiviti’s Kim Bozzella: Time to evolve beyond marketing to make meaningful metaverse moments As consumer behaviors around the metaverse mature, businesses will have to adapt their customer experience strategies to account for those behaviors in order to maintain relevance and have a chance to earn loyalty. When I talk with business leaders, I often hear metaverse as a marketing focus or an innovation one; usually, it’s not comprehensive and strategically integrated with the business. I… Blog May 25, 2023 The metaverse in 2040? Buckle up for a bumpy ride, says Elon professor and Pew researcher A revolutionary impact could certainly be possible, but only if things come together to make the metaverse a better place for human agency and human rights than the internet is right now.Many experts say even if network capabilities and user interfaces make the metaverse more attractive to the public, full-immersion spaces are not going to be broadly adopted globally as an everyday function in… Blog June 15, 2023 Is Apple’s Vision Pro a gamechanger that will mainstream the metaverse? Tech experts weigh in Apple’s announcement put VR, Web 3 and even the metaverse itself back into the spotlight after a prolonged AI-induced absence, which began with the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022.“These aren’t just glasses. This is the most advanced tech product ever created—it’s a supercomputer,” says Cathy Hackl, futurist, Chief Metaverse Officer of Journey and 'Godmother of the metaverse.' “While every… Blog June 30, 2023 The digital currency revolution is upon us. Only the global economy is at stake Digital money can vastly increase efficiency through greater speed and reductions in transaction costs, and since it’s not issued by the government but rather ruled by an algorithm, it may be more inclusive and less affected by political considerations. Governments are eager to position themselves for the next stage of the digital revolution in financial services by issuing central bank digital… Blog July 14, 2023 Inside Virbela's open campus: One way we could work in a metaverse future 1:18 - Open campus is one of many virtual worlds built by Virbela, most of them private. OC is unique in that it's free and open to the public. It showcases the art of the possible with the platform and it's home to an active community of users, including the entire Virbela team. 4:25 - Not only can we move our digital selves around something we can't do on video calls, we can choose our… Blog July 28, 2023 Global banking forecast? Plenty of cloud. Protiviti MDs on accelerating banking transformation By 2025, core banking workload deployment on cloud is expected to be 14% of total IT spend. Banks are grappling with outdated applications; data is siloed and trapped within legacy systems and not accessible for customer insights and tailored experiences and services. Regulatory changes in Australia, the UK and U.S., in GDPR and APRA standards for data privacy and operational resiliency, are also… Blog August 4, 2023 Economist Peter Henry offers a roadmap for a more equitable and prosperous future "Somewhat disappointingly, I don’t think that first-world countries have made a lot of progress on what I would call the structural policy fronts." "If the rate of return on investing in a road in Zambia is higher than the rate of return on S&P 500, there ought to be some folks in the US who are trying to figure out a way to invest in roads in Zambia.""I don’t think crypto will be a major… Blog August 9, 2023 The Economist’s Swarup Gupta on cash, privacy and data in a digital future "Even now, across the greatest part of the planet, cash definitely remains king, and it continues to be the major mode of payment, but there are various estimates that show that as a mode of payment, cash would decline to as low as 5% by 2030 to 2031." "Cash was the only completely anonymous way of storing value over time in exchange. Digital payments have ended that, which has led to multiple… Blog August 9, 2023 Former Schwab CEO Evelyn Dilsaver talks AI, crypto and future of financial services "The rise of technology allowed you to optimize your portfolio and do risk optimization better than you ever did before, because now you had all this data at your fingertips. That’s what’s changed.""Interesting thing is that many of the banks now are moving towards digital assets, which again, is to make life more easy and efficient for the consumer. In May of 2020, there were only 35 central… Load More
