This month, VIP Apps Consulting marks 12 years of operating in Slough — and for us, this milestone is about much more than business longevity. It’s about place. Slough is not a backdrop to what we do. It’s the reason we do it the way we do. The town’s exceptional cultural diversity, its concentration of…
Our Digital Strategy Lead, Nilesh Chavda, was featured in Comms Link’s latest expert roundup on how GDPR enforcement and cloud sovereignty concerns are reshaping cloud communication decisions. Nilesh’s contribution focused on the lending and leasing sector, where DORA is extending compliance obligations across financial services technology suppliers, and where data residency and jurisdictional transparency have…
A big transformation is under way in how enterprise software is built, deployed, and consumed. For two decades, the graphical user interface was the front door to every business system. Every workflow was designed around a human sitting in front of a screen, clicking through records, filling in fields, and manually moving work from one…
The financial services landscape is shifting fast — and B2B manufacturers are emerging as unexpected winners. Embedded finance, once the domain of fintechs and consumer apps, is now being adopted by manufacturers to streamline payments, unlock working capital, and strengthen customer relationships directly within their own platforms. At VIP Apps Consulting, this is a trend…
AI is changing the commercial lending industry by providing enormous potential for improving decision-making, lowering risks, and streamlining operations. However, it’s crucial to make sure your company is confidently prepared for this change before embracing AI. AI on its own doesn’t guarantee results and using it without first determining your level of readiness can result in missed opportunities and squandered money. AI readiness…
How the Salesforce Digital Trifecta Transforms Loan Originations from Manual Burden to Strategic Advantage Commercial lenders face an ongoing transformation challenge. Whilst consumer banking has shown significant investment in digital capabilities for specific products, commercial and asset finance remain largely reliant on legacy workflows. The result? Lengthy application processes, frustrated business clients, mounting costs, and…
Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) have created a transformative era in leasing and asset finance, where efficiency reigns supreme, and data-driven decisions have become the norm. The industry is witnessing a profound shift towards integrating AI to streamline operations and mitigate risks. By harnessing the power of AI algorithms, businesses gain access to invaluable insights…
The AFC Summer Awards 2023 took place on 12th July at the Hurlingham Club in London. This prestigious event, attended by over 500 industry professionals, recognised outstanding contributions and celebrated those dedicated to driving positive change within the industry. The 2023 Asset Finance Connect Summer Awards strongly emphasised the principles of People, Planet, and Profit….
Natural Language Processing (NLP) has revolutionised how search engines work, making them more intuitive, accurate, and user-friendly. From Siri to Alexa, and more recently with ChatGPT, NLP is powering the technology that allows us to communicate with machines more naturally and intuitively. In recent years, enterprise systems have also increasingly adopted NLP to improve communication,…
Since its launch in late November 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has gone viral, generating excitement over its possibilities and much debate about its limitations and concerns about the impact on the future of work. According to CEO Sam Altman, less than a week after its launch, it reached the one million users mark. It is such the…
